PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has directed the chief statistician of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics to respond to a contempt petition against the non-inclusion of Chitral’s Khowar language in the form for the forthcoming population census despite the court’s orders. A bench consisting of Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Ijaz Anwar fixed […]
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BOONI: A dispute between two groups of people over an access road to the Basic Health Unit (BHU) Brok in Laspur valley of Upper Chitral was resolved on Wednesday. According to a statement of the district administration of Upper Chitral, Additional Assistant Commissioner Mastuj Muhammad Ali and District Health Officer Dr Irshad Ahmed visited the
CHITRAL: The district government of Lower Chitral has arrested five people under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) ordinance for staging a protest against prolonged power outages in Koghuzi and sent them to the district jail of Dera Ismail Khan. People of Koh have been protesting against unavailability of electricity even after the operatioanlization of
CHITRAL: Reacting to a notification issued by the deputy commissioner Lower Chitral, a lawyer on Sunday said that Balach Shotar was not a riverbed of the government but the ancestral property of the former mehtar/ruler of Chitral. Explaining the facts to the reporters, Waqas Ahmad advocate said that the deputy commissioner Lower Chitral had declared
ISLAMABAD: The crash of PIA plane that killed 48 people while flying from Chitral to Islamabad in December 2016 could have been prevented had Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) staff reported the aircraft’s faults on time. In the PIA Chitral clash, all 48 people on board lost their lives when the plane carrying 42 passengers and
