BOONI: Local people have expressed their reservations over the holding of three-day Broghil festival (Sept 6-9) in the mourning month of Muharram, that too just before Ashura. The event was to be held in August but later the Tourism Corporation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (TCKP) and the Upper Chitral district administration announced that it would be […]
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CHITRAL: The only main hospital of the newly-created Upper Chitral district has almost shut its doors on patients asking them that there would be no doctor available from 8pm to 8am every day and on Sundays. The disappointing situation at the Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital Booni can be gauged from the fact that the hospital
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BOONI: A bus carrying girl students from Booni to Kuragh escaped a major accident near Booni bridge at about 6am on Saturday. As many as 60 girls were on board the bus when the road under one of its tyres caved in while descending on the slope towards the bridge. The main and only link
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CHITRAL: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) provincial general secretary Attaul Haq Darvesh, joint secretary Molana Amanullah Haqani, information secretary Abdul Jalil Jan and naib emir JUI Chitral Molana Sami on Thursday warned against establishment of Aga Khan Diagnostic Centre in Chitral town. Speaking at a press conference, they said if the Aga Khan Health Service wanted to
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CHITRAL: To protect Chalghuza (pinus geradina) from being harvested before it is ripe, the forest department with the financial support of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) has launched Chalghuza Forest Conservation project in Chitral. The committee will look after chalguza (pine nut) trees and pluck pine nuts when it is
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