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There are reports of rising death toll and damages to houses and other buildings. At the moment, people in most parts of the valley are in panic and living in the open fearing more tremors. It was also feared that many people remained stuck on roads that have been blocked due to falling stones and […]

While police, Rangers and the army were on their toes in most parts of the country to maintain peace during Ashura, the Chitral police were kept busy to provide VVIP protocol to the commissioner of Malakand, Mr Usman Gul, who was on a visit to the district. Instead of having rest on the holiday, Mr

File photo[/caption]Due to the rain that continued for about seven hours, the temperature plummeted to four degrees centigrade while humidity in the air was 82 per cent. The Pakistan meteorological department has forecast widespread rain/thunderstorm accompanied by gusty winds the Malakand division of which Chitral is a district. Due to the weekend and Muharram holidays,

RESHUN, Oct 23: The FWO repaired the damaged road at Reshun and opened traffic on the Chitral-Mastuj road on Friday. The Chitral-Mastuj road was blocked at different points when rain and flooding from streams hit the main road on Oct 19. The continuous erosion of the hillock near Reshun into the road hampered the reopening

Besides, Chitralsi living outside also felt the need and collected donations and sent them to the flood affectees. It is a fact that every affected Chitrali needs cash and all the basic items of daily use, especially shelter items as the winter sets in. But sometimes it looks very awkward when flood-affected people are photographed

She was speaking to the participants of a function held near Kuragh after inaugurating a cable car service over the river to connect to villages on the Kosht side. Wheat seeds were also distributed among the farmers of the area on the occasion. Among others, Shahzada Sirajul Mulk, project director Saeed Awan, programme officer Hafiz

The MPA also announced the establishment of a computer lab for a private school in Drosh. Speaking at the inaugural ceremony attended by a large number of party workers and local notables, the MPA said since former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the PPP had done lots of work for the promotion of education in

Photo of broken road at Reshun taken by Abdul Samad (Booni).[/caption] The road has been damaged at different points due to flooding in nullahs and avalanches after torrential rain on Monday. The rain/flood also washed away about 100 metres of the road near Reshun which is yet to be repaired. Since the blockade of the

In this regard, a ceremony was held at the playground of the Degree College Booni to start the distribution of the materials on Monday. The shelter kits are being distributed among the affected families of the Charun, Kosht and Mulkhow union councils. Tehsil Council members Sardar Hakim, Allauddin, chairman village council Reshun Munir, chairman village