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
PESHAWAR, Feb 27: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday directed the district administration and police of Chitral to arrest those who killed a markhor in the area recently. While taking up a suo motu case regarding the killing of the endangered animal in Chitral, which was first reported in chitraltoday.net, Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan
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Zulfiqar Ahmad CHITRAL, Feb 25: Former district nazim (mayor) of Chitral Maghfirat Shah was arrested in the explosives theft case in Chitral on Monday. Sources told chitraltoday.net that a local court gave the former nazim belonging to the Jamaat-i-Islami party to the Koghuzi police on a three-day physical remand. He was arrested from the premises
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ISLAMABAD, Feb 20: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Wildlife Department has swung into action over illegal hunting of markhor at Chitral Gol National Park [Birmoglasht] and ordered a thorough probe into the incident. The authorities have taken serious notice of media reports that poaching of markhor in connivance with local wildlife officials is rampantly going on in Chitral, posing serious
CHITRAL, Jan 4: Provincial Minister for Population Welfare Saleem Khan on Thursday inaugurated the reconstructed Bakarabad road that has been completed at a cost of 11.5 million rupees. However, he expressed his concern over the poor condition of the road and use of substandard material in its reconstruction. He announced that no one would be
PESHAWAR, Dec 27: A petition was on Thursday filed with Peshawar High Court against the opening of the under-construction Lowari Tunnel only for three days a week. When the Lowari Pass road closes in winter due to snowfall, it is only the under-construction tunnel through which the people of Chitral commute with other parts of
PESHAWAR, Dec 17: Unable to manage hospitals on its own in order to provide healthcare facilities to the citizens, the government has handed over another hospital in Chitral to the private sector. According to a press release issued by the provincial government’s health department in Peshawar on Monday, the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital of Garam Chashma
