PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has directed the energy ministry to respond to a petition against the shelving of the supply of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to Lower Chitral district. A bench consisting of Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Shakeel Ahmad fixed June 21 for the next hearing into the petition filed by […]
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Muhammad Irshadullah PESHAWAR: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) KP spokesman and Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Ikhtiar Wali Khan has demanded of the National Accountability Authority (NAB) to take notice of the repeated misuse of the provincial government’s helicopter, and probe the coronavirus corruption scandal and the alleged Malam Jabba case. Addressing a press conference with MPA
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PESHAWAR (APP): Misal Khan, 83, who was busy like a honeybee while threshing his wheat crop at his fields under the blistering sun in his native village, suddenly collapsed after feeling dizziness due to heatstroke. Dr Zaheeruddin Babar, Director and Chief Spokesman Met Office, Islamabad, said the plain areas of Sindh and Punjab were severely
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Afzal Ali Shigri Subsequent to their liberation from Dogra rule, the people of Gilgit-Baltistan unconditionally joined Pakistan. However, based on a controversial agreement with the Kashmiri leadership, the government of Pakistan linked the accession of GB with the Kashmir dispute and governed the area through a bureaucratic arrangement that excluded the locals. The unilateral declaration
M. Irshadullah PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Mahmood Khan administered to the newly-elected cabinet of Peshawar Press Club on Monday. The chief minister on the occasion announced to provide scholarships in the name of late journalists Hafiz SanaUllah and Rahimullah Yousafzai in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Peshawar, to working journalists of Peshawar. Mahmood Khan said
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PESHAWAR: Fencing of Afghan border and freezing of funds by federal govt blamed for decrease in number of markhors in Chitral Gol National Park. A markhor count survey conducted by the provincial wildlife department earlier last year carried shocking disclosures about the number of the national animal in Chitral Gol National Park. The official report
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ISLAMABAD: The first phase of the local government (LG) elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) will be held on December 19, 2021, and the second on January 16, 2022, announced the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). In a detailed order by a three-member bench headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, the ECP directed the
CHITRAL: Residents of Gankorini in Singoor on Friday held a protest against the management of the under-construction Bejaan Hotel and called upon the district administration to protect their privacy and sanctity of their four walls. Work on the five-star hotel was inaugurated on Oct 28, 2020 and since then some owners of the land have
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GILGIT: German Ambassador Bernhard Schlagheck has said cooperation will be extended for mitigating climate change impact in Gilgit-Baltistan. The German envoy called on Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid Khan here, according to a press release issued by the Chief Minister’s House. The chief minister appreciated the German government for supporting GB in health, education and power
Sherjahan Sahil belongs to Narkorate village of Garam Chashma. He went to Karachi in 2001 in pursuit of education and remained there till 2014 during which he obtained a master degree in political science from the Federal Urdu University. In 2008, he established Chitral Students and Social Welfare Organization in Karachi and headed it as
