BOONI, Feb 17: The one-man commission formed to probe the allegations of corruption in the Booni water pipeline project has unearthed wide-scale irregularities and embezzlement in the project, a source close to the development told ChitralToday. The source said the commission had submitted its report to a local court which sent it to Swat for further […]
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GILGIT, Feb 17: The appointment of Chaudhry Muhammad Barjis Tahir, a PML-N loyalist, as governor of Gilgit-Baltistan set off a political storm in the region after he took oath of his office on Monday, but the incumbent refused to step down and claimed that he was still the ‘constitutional’ holder of the position. “I have
BOONI, Feb 10: The people of Booni have opposed the PTI-led provincial government to establish a stadium at Qaqlasht. Talking to ChitralToday, the residents of the area said that the construction of the stadium in Qaqlasht would destroy the natural beauty of the plateau. They said that being quite far-off from the populated areas, only an annual
Zulfiqar Ahmad ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: Musharraf at Shandur. After many years, former military strongman Pervez Musharraf is set to dance with the people of Chitral again. He is as fit as a fiddle. He is all set to grace a gathering being organized in his honour by a group of Chitrali students in Karachi on
BOONI, Feb 1: Perhaps for the first time, an acute shortage of charas has hit the town of Booni but the charsi men are hopeful that it is a temporary crisis and would go away very soon. They said the shortage was neither due to the recent announcement by the new district police officer (DPO)
CHITRAL, Jan 17: Hundreds of people from the Karimabad and Sosum villages of Garam Chashma repaired the main road to their area on a self-help basis after their demands to the government departments fell on deaf ears. A few days ago, the people had also repaired the Hasanabad bridge on a self-help basis. An aged
CHITRAL, Jan 11: A protest public meeting was held at the polo ground of the Sosum village (Karimabad) under the chairmanship of Syed Jamat Shah. Addressing the gathering, the speakers said since the creation of Pakistan no developmental project had been launched in this scenic valley inhabited by more than 14,000 people. They said there
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ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: The war of words between member provincial assembly (MPA) from lower Chitral Salim Khan and former MPA Ghulam Muhammad has intensified with the two archrivals taking a dig at each after the former jumped into the bandwagon of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) last week. The barrage of massive corruption allegations started surfacing after
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ISLAMABAD, Jan 8: The incumbent member provincial assembly from lower Chitral and former minister for population welfare Salim Khan of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Thursday stuck to his guns, saying Ghulam Muhammad must proceed with his legal notice if he is ‘man enough’. Talking to ChitralToday on phone from Peshawar in response to allegations leveled against him by former MPA
CHITRAL, Jan 7: Some speakers at a conference organized by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) at a hotel on Thursday criticized MPA Salim Khan for accusing ex-MPA Haji Ghulam Muhammad of corruption. The conference was presided over by Qari Abdul Rehman, the Amir of the JUI Chitral. Wali Mohammad Zeb and Molvi Mohammad Ilyas criticized the PPP
