PESHAWAR: A student of Islamia College Peshawar from Parachinar committed suicide after failing to obtain high marks in the Medical and Dental Colleges’ Admission Test (MDCAT) even after attempting three times. The deceased was a first semester student of BSc zoology and lived in the hostel of the college. The provost of the hostel said fellow […]
SILKYARA, INDIA (Reuters): Indian rescuers on Tuesday pulled out all 41 construction workers trapped for 17 days inside a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayas, hours after drilling through the debris of rock, concrete and earth to reach them. The evacuation of the men – low-wage workers from some of India\’s poorest states – began more
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PESHAWAR: Caretaker Chief Minister Syed Arshad Hussain Shah has decided to involve NAB representatives in conception, planning and execution of all development projects in the province. He directed the quarters concerned to send a formal letter to higher authority of NAB in this regard. He took the decision while presiding over the 15th meeting of the
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Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig Our Chitrali society is a conglomeration of tribes of various sizes. Some are in thousands while others are in dozens. Their past of the recent generations is not far away so some grievances do exist. The solution to this complication is good education which can erase but gradually the traces of
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Shimlawala (published in Dawn.com) The above two photos were captured from roughly the same location in Upper Chitral, at around the same time of year, 38 years apart. The photo on the left, taken in July 1973, shows the impressive white face of the Chatiboi glacier as its snout debouches into the River Yarkhun. The
