PESHAWAR, Jan 8: Delay in the lifting of ban on the transportation of timber from Malakand and Hazara divisions is likely to cause Rs.6 billion loss to the KP government and the royalty holders. The provincial government had banned the transportation of timber in 2013 and millions of cubic feet timber have been lying along […]
BOONI, Jan 6: Former provincial minister and MPA from lower Chitral Salim Khan on Tuesday said the corruption allegations levlled against him by former MPA from upper Chitral Haji Ghulam Muhammad were baseless and he would soon be issuing him a legal notice. Talking to ChitralToday, the MPA said he would very soon not only issue
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NEW DELHI, Jan 2: The crew of an alleged Pakistani fishing boat blew up and sank their vessel after trying to evade capture at the hands of the Indian navy in a high-speed chase at sea, officials said Friday. All four people on board the vessel from Keti Bunder, near Karachi are believed to have
S. N. Peerzada BOONI, Jan 1: The good news on the first day of the New Year is that little Sher Baz Khan has returned home happily thanks to all Chitralis living around the world and the administration of Mastuj at Booni who took pity on the little boy and helped him after a news
The rising consensus of anger in the wake of this massacre has caused some to observe that Fazlullah may be isolated. This may be partially true, especially as Pakistan Army’s Operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan unfolds. But up in Kunar, he appears quite in control. While Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Pakistan’s interior minister, has said
PESHAWAR, Dec 30: Even though Chitral stands sixth among 25 districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and 47th out of 146 districts nationally, at least 37% of girls in the district are not going to school. To provide context to the ranks given by Alif Ailan District Education Rankings 2014 or the government, a closer look at
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In the wake of Peshawar school tragedy all the parliamentary parties decided on Dec 24 to set up special courts to be presided over by army officers for trying suspected terrorists. As the Supreme Court has declared in 1999 the setting up of military courts as unconstitutional and illegal, therefore, the political leadership has decided
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CHITRAL, Dec 28: The 7th century fort of Chinese king Bahman Kohistani in Muzhgole village of upper Chitral can be turned into a tourist resort if the archaeology department pays the much needed attention to it. Talking to this correspondent, Gulzada Khan, a retired schoolteacher of the area, said that the upper part of Chitral
Dr Hasan Askari Rizvi Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is the icon of Pakistan’s history. He is characterized as the charismatic leader who inspired a substantial majority of British-Indian Muslims and left a strong imprint on history by establishing the separate state of Pakistan. No history of the end of British rule in India is complete
CHITRAL, Dec 25: Some people from the Yarkhun valley here criticized the Aga Khan Education Service (AKES) for what they said its injustices with the students from the backward area. Addressing a press conference here, Sahib Noor, the president of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) union council Yarkhun, along with others said his daughter was a class
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