The jeep bumps along a sloppy mud road carved between the country\’s mountainous north, its tyres running with breathtaking precision along the very edge, where nothing but air lies between them and the snake-like river winding hundreds of feet below. More than 3,000 metres above sea level the vehicle has no room for error, its […]
ISLAMABAD: After lengthy delays, an $8.2 billion revamp of a colonial-era rail line snaking from the Arabian Sea to the foothills of the Hindu Kush has become a test of Pakistan’s ability to rethink the signature Chinese ‘Silk Road’ projects due to debt concerns. The rail project linking Karachi to Peshawar is China’s biggest Belt
The newly appointed governor of Gilgit-Baltistan, Raja Jilal Hussain Maqpoon, took his oath on Sunday in the Governor House. Justice Javed Iqbal, acting chief of the Supreme Appellate Court, administered the oath. Maqpoon, who has now become the 6th governor of the region, is the provincial president of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). On Friday, Mir
PESHAWAR: The KP government is all set to abolish the district governments which have been so far the most effective tier of the local government system. After doing away with the district tier, the remaining two tiers, the tehsil and village and neghbourhood councils, would be further strengthened. The decision in this regard was taken
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In the last eight months, 346 people have committed suicide in seven districts of Malakand division, according to police sources. Swat had the highest number of suicides with 222 cases being reported in the last eight months. While 73 people committed suicide in Buner, 26 in Shangla, 15 in Lower Dir and nine in Chitral,
