CHITRAL: The National Highway Authority (NHA) is not committing funds for construction of Rs8 billion Chitral-Garam Chasha road and various roads in Kalash valleys costing Rs4 billion despite the fact that tendering process has already been completed. A source in NHA, requesting not to be named, said the two road projects had been approved by
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CHITRAL: Members of the district peace committee at a meeting highlighted the problems being faced by the people in the sectors of electricity, drinking and irrigation water supply and others. The participants of the meeting, which was chaired by DC Khurshid Alam, noted that there was no threat to peace in the district but issues
CHITRAL: As many as seven people, mostly students, committed suicide over different issues in Chitral within just one week with the latest incident being reported from the Broz village near Chitral town on Saturday. The Chitral police said Muhammad Ashraf Khan, 45, son of Muhammad Zuhoor Khan, father of three children, shot himself dead with
By Mohammad Ilyas Khwaja (Goldur, Chitral) Rape and murder cases have been on the rise in Pakistani society. In the last government of Nawaz Sharif, it was proudly proclaimed that honour killings had been forbidden and anyone found involved in such a killing would be dealt with as a general killer. Pakistan has a fanatic
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By Aasim Sajjad So much has been written and said about the rise of the ‘middle class’ and it being the motor force of the PTI that after the July 25 poll outcome, it is necessary to pen some thoughts on both the politics of tabdeeli and its purported middle-class base. Let’s begin by setting
