Two Afghan journalists were left with ugly welts and bruises after being beaten and detained for hours by Taliban enforcers for covering a protest in the Afghan capital. The pair were picked up at a demonstration on Wednesday and taken to a police station in the capital, where they say they were punched and beaten […]
Afgna army collapsed when Taliban swept into Kabul last month, capturing Afghanistan\’s capital without a fight, the sheer speed of the collapse of the Western-backed and trained army stunned the world. But senior officials in the former Afghan administration told AFP that the lightning victory was not entirely unexpected, and the consequence of fundamental leadership failures, rampant corruption,
ISLAMABAD: The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (Akah) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the office of sustainability, National University of Sciences and Technology (Nust), to develop sustainable habitat plans for disaster-prone valleys in northern Pakistan. According to a press release issued by Nust, through the partnership Akah will collaborate with Nust to develop
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Obaidullah Baheer When Kabul fell on Sunday my father went on live tv to congratulate the Taliban on their glorious victory. As I watched him praise the jihadists, my phone buzzed with panicked messages from friends who were terrified that Taliban fighters would kill them in their homes. I was brought up to hate the West and
CHITRAL: Additional District Judge Lower Chitral Mr Muhammad Qasim has observed that the report published in ChitralToday about sacked AKES Chitral assistant general manager Zohran Shah in the year 2014 was \”true and published in good faith and public interest\”. The plaintiff, Zohran Shah, pursued the defamation case against the online newspaper for over seven years
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Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig Tea is one of the essential items of our breakfast and we take it wherever it is presented besides buying it at restaurants. When I was about 10, many people including women were over-fond of this product which came to Chitral market from over Lowari Pass by Paracha traders. Before I
BOONI: Tehreek Huqooq-e-Awam leader Muhammad Pervez Lal has taken strong exception to repeated demand by some political activists and traders of Chitral town to send back government employees hailing from Upper Chitral working in Lower Chitral to their new district. Talking to ChitralToday, he said: \”We have so far not reacted to this repeated demand
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DROSH: Chitral Falcons won the first Chitral Football League (CFL) cup championship after beating the Pakistan Army by one to zero goal here on Thursday. The final match was played at Col Murad Stadium in front of thousands of people on Thursday afternoon. In a press statement before the start of the event, Ideal Club
CHITRAL: District Judge Lower Chitral Ms Phool Bibi recently upheld a civil court\’s ruling in PTI leader Abdul Latif\’s appeal against the forest department for fining him over Rs40 million in connection with cutting of green trees in the Kalash valley in 2013. In the detailed judgement, the district judge observed that there were no
Zar Alam Khan CHITRAL: The defamation case against Chitral Today filed by a sacked official of the Aga Khan Education Service (AKES) Chitral in 2014 was dismissed by a court on Thursday. After hearing final arguments by Chitral Today lawyer Afzal Nageen Advocate and submission of documents showing Zohran Shah had been sacked by the
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