CHITRAL: A monsoon tree plantation drive has been launched at the University of Chitral. In this regard, a function was held at the auditorium of the university in which teachers, students and officials from the forest department participated. Later, university vice chancellor Dr Zahir Khan opened the drive by planting a sapling on the premises […]
CHITRAL: As many as 16 tourists belonging to Gujrat sustained injuries when a vagon they were travelling in to Chitral met with an accident at Ashiret on Sunday. The tourists belonged to same family and four men, three women and nine children were injured. The accident occurred due to a brake failure. Rescue 1122 said
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BREP: Traffic on Yarkhun road was on Monday restored by the C&W department on the direction of the district administration of Upper Chitral. The road was blocked after flash floods in Dahkhot nullah in Brep on July 29. The floods also destroyed scores of houses, crops and fruit trees in the village.
More than 1,000 Afghan security personnel fled across the border into Tajikistan on Sunday following Taliban advances in northern Afghanistan, the Tajik border guard service said, dawn.com reports. The crossings underscore a rapidly deteriorating situation in the country as foreign troops near a complete withdrawal after 20 years of war in Afghanistan. Hundreds of Afghan security force
CHITRAL: A vehicle that was stolen from Pirwadhai in Rawalpindi 11 years ago has been recovered by the Chitral police. The Chitral police in a social media post said the stolen car was caught during verification of vehicles through its vehicle verification system (VVS). The Prado has been taken into custody and its owner was
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WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday defended the US decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, saying the terror threat had moved elsewhere and that Washington needed to refocus resources on challenges such as China and the pandemic. President Joe Biden announced last week that the United States would withdraw all forces from the
CHITRAL: A Pak-Italy friendship bridge was inaugurated in Khairabad area of Drosh town in Lower Chitral today. Along the bridge, other infrastructure development projects were inaugurated by Italian Agency for Development Cooperation Emanuela Benini, SRSP chief executive officer Shahzada Masoodul Mulk and deputy commissioner Lower Chitral Hasan Abid inaugurated the bridge and other schemes. The
Zar Alam Khan ISLAMABAD: While 9 to 12 classes are opening from Jan 18 after months of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has created a crisis not only for its educational institutions but also for about 300 teachers, mostly women, from provinces working in Islamabad under the wedlock
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Prof Rahmat Karim Baig The disputed site for the University of Chitral has vexed many brains and it is in fact the result of the poor performance of the provincial government. The public reps have also taken it up and want to move it from site to site. The bad thing is that Chitral has
Moderna Inc said on Thursday it had dosed the first participant in a mid-to-late stage study testing its COVID-19 vaccine candidate in adolescents aged 12 to less than 18. The study is being conducted in collaboration with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). “Our goal is to generate data in the spring of
