CHITRAL, April 4: A medical student from Garum Chashma valley is wandering from pillar to post to resume his medical studies disrupted due to financial crunch. Telling his tale of woes to this correspondent here on Tuesday, the former third-year student of Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, Sardar Ayub said he had to discontinue his studies […]
ISLAMABAD, April 3: The Ministry of Interior has banned Khana-e-Hikmat, the publication and research organization of Nasiruddin Hunzai, a religious leader from Hunza who is settled in Canada. According to reports, the government of Pakistan has banned the organization under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 for its link with terror organizations in the country and
PESHAWAR, March 30: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has allotted ticket to Mohammad Younus Khan for the National Assembly seat of Chitral while Saeed Ahmed Khan will be contesting for the upper Chitral PK-90 seat. For the lower Chitral (PK-89), the PML-N has not yet decided its candidate. Mr Younus is a retired education department
SLAMABAD, March 26: A recent nexus of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Swat militants with the Afghan government may give rise to increased terrorist incidents on Pakistan’s border areas including Mohmand, Bajaur Agencies, Dir, Swat and Chitral, said a report by Pakistan’s premier intelligence agencies. The report submitted Tuesday before the Supreme Court by Advocate Raja Mohammad Irshad
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CHITRAL, March 26: Some senior office-bearers of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chitral on Tuesday resigned from the party as a protest against what they said wrong decision by the central leadership about allotting tickets to candidates for the forthcoming elections in Chitral. Addressing a press conference at the resident of Sardar Mohammad Khan, a retired
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CHITRAL, March 16: Former district nazim of Chitral Haji Maghfirat Shah was set free from the district jail here on Saturday after he was granted bail by the Swat circuit bench of Peshawar High Court. The former nazim, who is also a Jamaat-e-Islami leader, was taken to the Atalique Chowk in a procession of party workers
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PESHAWAR, March 12: District administration and police officials from Chitral on Tuesday appeared before Peshawar High Court in the suo motu hearing of the poaching of a markhor and said they were unable to arrest the poachers. On Feb 27, a two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and Justice Mrs Irshad Qaiser had
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GHIZER, March 9: The Pakistan people’s Party’s local chapter has come out in the open against Governor Pir Karam Ali Shah and asked him to step down from the post, local media reported. In a statement issued to the press, PPP youth wing GB senior vice-president Sadat Ali, PSF Karachi University unit president Comrade Maqsad
CHITRAL, March 6: It seems Chitralis are taken for granted everywhere and by every Tom, Dick and Harry. And equally to blame for this humiliating and discriminatory treatment are not only the leadership of Chitral but also the people themselves. If we are denied our basic rights and humiliated we never consider it a big
CHITRAL, March 5: The district and sessions judge Chitral on Tuesday also rejected the post-arrest bail petition of Jamaat-i-Islami leader and former district nazim Haji Maghfirat Shah in the explosives theft case. When the accused was produced before Judge Syed Zamurad Shah, defence lawyer Zafar Hayat said his client deserved bail as two other accused
