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Work on Chakdara-Chitral road to begin within a year: minister

ISLAMABAD: (APP): Minister of State for Communications Murad Saeed on Monday said the government was determined to undertake road building schemes to accelerate pace of economic development in the country. Work on Chakdara-Chitral road and Chitral-Gilgit-Baltistan road would be started within one year, he said while talking to MNA Mehboob Shah from Malakand Division at […]

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10 shopkeepers fined for selling substandard, expired items

CHITRAL: At least 10 shopkeepers were fined for selling substandard and expired edible items and maintaining poor cleanliness in their business centres in the local bazaar. Tehsil Municipal Officer Qadir Nasir and other officials carried out a checking of the bazaars during which they ordered registration of cases against a number of shopkeepers. The people

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Fazal fails to convince Nawaz to attend APC

Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman met ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif at the latter\’s Jati Umra residence but reportedly failed to convince him to attend an All Parties Conference (APC) being proposed by the opposition parties. According to DawnNewsTV, despite a two-hour-long conversation between the two leaders, Nawaz remained unwilling to commit and said

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Silence and chatter

By Afiya S. Zia   What is it with PTI ministers and their fixation with pop music? Is it an attempt to pose as trendy, or have they been cranking up the music to drown out the growing criticism? The informalisation of governance was obvious when the new government was sworn in and an outlandish

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