ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: The Pakistani Taliban may be planning attacks on tourists in the country’s mountainous north, where 10 foreign climbers were massacred last year, officials warned Monday. Thousands of tourists visit Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral each year, many drawn by the area’s impressive mountains and glaciers, including the world’s second highest peak K2. Pakistan has […]
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CHITRAL, May 10: Chitral has only one seat (NA-32) in the National Assembly of Pakistan. The constituency covers the whole of Chitral. The district of Chitral spreads over 14,850 square kilometers and according to the 1998 census it had a population of 318,689 – 162,082 males and 142,582 females. Currently, the population of Chitral is
CHITRAL, May 8: A number of local leaders and activists of different political parities announced their decision to join the PML-N here on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference at the local press club, Fazal Rahim Advocate, Mohammad Wazir, Shaukatul Mulk, Kausar Chughtai advocate along with Mohammad Younus, the PML-N candidate for NA-32, said the party
PESHAWAR, March 26: The Awami National Party (ANP) has decided not to contest for the lone National Assembly seat of Chitral (NA-32). However, it has fielded candidates for the two provincial assembly seats in the district. According to a press release issued by the ANP office in Peshawar, Zafar Ahmed has been given the ANP
Report Waqar Ahmed CHITRAL, Nov 3: Eight people were killed and six others injured in a traffic accident at Muroi on Saturday evening. The taxi vehicle of Zafar, a resident of Kankhon in Yarkhun valley, was coming to Chitral with 14 passengers when it fell into a ravine near a hotel at Muroi. The six
CHITRAL, Oct 7: Primary schoolteachers here thanked the provincial government for fulfilling their long-awaited demand of upgradation from basic pay scale five to 15. At an annual convention held under the All-Primary Teachers Association, the speakers said this was the only government that fulfilled their promise of recognizing the status of the primary schoolteachers. Provincial
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KARACHI, May 24: National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza has decided against forwarding a disqualification reference against Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Gilani to the Election Commission of Pakistan after his conviction by the Supreme Court in the contempt of court case. In a five page ruling released on Thursday, the NA speaker said that no
