CHITRAL, June 3: German Ambassador Dr. Cyrill Nunn has said the aim of the German support to the people of Chitral for having access to clean drinking water was to make the people healthy so that they could live a happy life. He was speaking in a inaugural ceremony of urban project of drinking water […]
By Manzoor Ali PESHAWAR, May 5: The Chitral district administration has officially asked the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government to cancel a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with Gilgit-Baltistan on co-hosting the Shandur Polo Festival. Chitral Deputy Commissioner Aminul Haq confirmed that he had written a letter to the Malakand commissioner, asking to cancel the MoU. “I wrote
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BOONI, April 5: Secretary Jamaat-e-Islami upper Chitral, Mr Shuja Uddin has said that the district Amir of the Jamaat, Haji Maghfirat Shah, did not take the party’s leadership in upper Chitral before entering into an alliance with Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) for teh forthcoming local government elections. Talking to ChitralToday here, Mr Shuja said that in a bid
LANDI KOTAL, March 17: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan on Monday performed the groundbreaking of the 28km Mattani-Takhta Beg Road and said the artery would help ease traffic on Peshawar roads. The Rs1 billion contract for the construction of dual carriage has been awarded to the Frontier Works Organisation. Work on the project
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ISLAMABAD, Feb 22: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman on Sunday continued his tirade against the government, accusing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of nominating his own ‘umpire’ for the upcoming elections in Gilgit-Baltistan, Dawn.com reported. Speaking to reporters, Khan warned the government that his party will challenge it in court and take to the streets in case the
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GILGIT, Feb 17: The appointment of Chaudhry Muhammad Barjis Tahir, a PML-N loyalist, as governor of Gilgit-Baltistan set off a political storm in the region after he took oath of his office on Monday, but the incumbent refused to step down and claimed that he was still the ‘constitutional’ holder of the position. “I have
GILGIT, Feb 11: Pakistan People`s Party, GilgitBaltistan chapter, has filed a writ petition in the Chief Court challenging the appointment of caretaker chief minister, Sher Jahan Mir, and his 12-member cabinet, and requesting the court to declare the appointments null and void. The petition argued that appointment of GB caretaker chief minister and his cabinet
ISLAMABAD, Feb 6: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday announced the schedule for local body elections in Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. During a meeting of the ECP, headed by Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Sardar Raza, it was decided that local government elections in Sindh will take place in March 2016 whereas
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
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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