ISLAMABAD: Road construction activity is fast degrading the snow leopard habitat in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Chitral, a report says. It said two major roads, namely Karakoram Highway (KKH) and Gilgit-Shandur Road bisect snow leopard habitat. In the backdrop of the surging infrastructure growth in the region, WWF-Pakistan launched the sustainable infrastructure initiative in 2019 aimed […]
BOONI: The annual Qaqlasht festival will be organized after a gap of five years from April 18 subject to weather conditions. The four-day festival will be held under the Qaqlasht committee while the district administration will extend only logistical support for it. This decision was made at the second meeting of the committee held in
CHITRAL: The district administrations of Lower and Upper Chitral have imposed Section 144 under which restrictions have been imposed on different activities. According to separate orders issued from the offices of the deputy commissioners, in order to ensure maintenance of peace, there would be a ban on fireworks, firing into the air, display of arms,
DROSH: A large number of people blocked the Chitral-Peshawar road in Drosh for over four hours demanding registration of an FIR against police officials for beating and injuring a shopkeeper. Iqbal Shaheen, a resident of Jinjiret, who runs a shop in Drosh bazar, remained hospitalized with multiple injuries after being beaten up by three officials
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PESHAWAR: A deputy superintendent of police and his gunman were killed and another police official injured in a terror attack in Lakki Marwat on Saturday. Police said that the vehicle of DSP Gul Muhammad Khan was targeted near Manjola Chowk by armed persons. It may be recalled that in a similar incident, another DSP, Iqbal
