All men are not created equal. One Israeli life is equivalent to 200 Palestinian lives. And, once again, the world has better things to do than stop Israel’s genocide. It was not the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers that started it. Two Palestinian boys, acting on their own, kidnapped the three teenagers hoping to use […]
ISTANBUL, July 17: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday launched his most bitter attack yet against Israel over its air campaign in the Gaza Strip, accusing the Jewish State of seeking a “systematic genocide” of the Palestinians. Erdogan, who sees himself as a champion of the Palestinian cause, has in the last days
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CHITRAL, June 27: After about a decade, a team of four mountaineers from Switzerland have arrived in Chitral to scale Terich Mir, the highest peak of the Hindkush range in upper Chitral. Talking to this correspondent here on Friday, Tourism Corporation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (TCKP) managing director of Mohammad Ali said the mountaineers would spend
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SKARDU, June 25: Deputy Commissioner Skardu Raja Fazal Khalique was beaten up by villagers in the Chomik area yesterday in the absence of police officials. According to details printed in the regional press, the DC had gone to the construction site of a mosque in Chomik over which there is a dispute. The DC, reportedly,
TIMARGARAH, June 23: Forest owners and members of the defunct joint forest management committees (JFMCs) from different valleys of Chitral gathered at Timargarah on Monday and threatened the KP government to lift the ban on movement of timber till July 14 otherwise they would start protest demonstrations. They were also joined by forest owners and
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GILGIT, June 19: Opposing the Gilgit-Baltistan government’ s decision, the Ghizer polo team has decided to participate in the three-day Shandur festival from Friday. The opening polo match would be played between the teams of the district Ghizar and of Laspur valley. This was announced by Gul Wali, the captain of the Ghizer polo team,
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ISLAMABAD, June 11: Pakistan and Tajikistan are set to explore new avenues for the supply of 1,000 megawatts of electricity with the help of transmission lines to Chitral in an effort to utilise surplus energy and help Islamabad ease its power shortages, officials told Express Tribune newspaper in Islamabad. This energy trade, which is separate from the
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CHITRAL, June 9: Parliamentary secretary on forest, environment and wildlife KP Fazal Elahi was given briefing by Snow Leopard Foundation (SLF) about its activities in Chitral. Speaking on the occasion, the provincial parliamentary secretary lauded the services of SLF in wildlife research, monitoring and conservation. He said non-government organizations were playing vital role in the
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ISLAMABAD, June 7: The Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) federal government has once again disappointed the people of Chitral by making a meager allocation of Rs2 billion in the PSDP 2014-15 for the Lowari tunnel mega project. It was also PML-N government which had earmarked only Rs1 billion in last year public sector development programme (PSDP),
CHITRAL, June 3: The Anti-Corruption Department Chitral has at last launched a crackdown against corrupt officials and contractors of the Communication & Works (C&W) Department Chitral. According to section in-charge (police station anti-corruption) Inspector Zafar Khan, on the information of Ameer Muhammad and other residents of Booni an FIR No 1 dated 23rd May 2014
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