CHITRAL: Traders here have asked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief secretary to order an inquiry against Assistant Commissioner Chitral Saqlain Salim for harassing shopkeepers through the imposition of heavy fines. Speaking at a press conference, Shabbir Ahmad, Kifayatullah, Siraj Ahmad and others said AC Salim was imposing heavy fines on the traders without any justification. They […]
PESHAWAR: Sonia Shamroz Khan, a grade 18 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP), was on Wednesday appointed as the district police officer (DPO) of Lower Chitral. Ms Khan belongs to Abbottabad and is the first woman police officer to become the head of a district police in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. She will
ISLAMABAD: The National Highway Authority (NHA) has completed a survey of the proposed Dir-Chitral Motorway. In a statement, the NHA said there would be four interchanges and four tunnels on the 30-km-long motorway. The longest tunnel is five kilometers which will be constructed in the Ouch mountain. A team from National Engineering Services Pakistan (Nespak)
Muhammad Uzair Ul Islam KARIMABAD: The Karimabad-Shingle track was constructed from Hassanabad–Hinjil-Breshgram and Susum on a self-help basis in 1982. Due to paucity of resources and absence of technical expertise, the erstwhile foot track in the mountainous terrain was upgraded to jeepable track. Conversely, the existing foot track gradients remain emplaced, obviously its alignment has
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YARKHUN: Beneficiaries of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) are facing immense hardship while waiting for the distribution of their stipends in Zzupu village of Yarkhun for over a week. The monthly stipend has not reached them for many months as earlier there was no distribution point and the women used to go to Meragram No
