CHITRAL: Dr Hamida Bibi from Sarghuz village of Upper Chitral has been appointed as assistant professor (BS-19) at Abdul Wali Khan University (AWKU), Mardan. Dr Hamida was working as assistant professor at the soil and environmental sciences department at the University of Agriculture, Peshawar. She has a directorate degree in environmental sciences from the United […]
Prof Israr Uddin Allow me to take you back into history and tell you about a night between 14th and 15th August, some 75 years ago in 1947. Then I was a student studying in the 5th class and eleven years old. On that day, thousands of children and elders around the country had been
CHITRAL: A head-on collision between two vehicles left three persons, including a woman, injured on Chitral-Peshawar road on Tuesday. Rescue 1122 said the two taxi cars collided with each other from the opposite direction at Gang area. One of the taxi cars was coming from Chitral town and the other from Drosh. One of the
DROSH: A maktab school set up in Kashindel village of Shishi Koh valley has almost been forgotten by the government after its establishment about 30 years ago. Local people told ChitralToday that the maktab school was set up in a room adjacent to a mosque in 1992. It has only one room and one teacher
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RESHUN: The Chitral-Mastuj road was on Wednesday once again blocked at Reshun after landslide near Shader. Traffic between Upper and Lower Chitral districts was closed with a large number people stranded on both sides. Scores of travellers were also seen crossing the blocked point on foot to reach their destinations. The road was washed away
GH Farooqui BOONI: A teenage boy fell into the river in Greenlasht village at about 5pm on Friday, local people said. They said the 16-year-old Shayan Ahmed, son of Shakil Ahmed, a native of Torkhow and living in Peshawar, was going towards Booni when the accident occurred near the new bridge to Oveer valley. The
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has directed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Culture and Tourism Authority (KPCTA) to fully focus on the promotion of tourism activities and complete all ongoing initiatives and activities as soon as possible. PTDC motels in KP should be made functional to facilitate tourists. The chief minister also directed the authority to
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CHITRAL: The University of Chitral (UoC) is in financial straits and has expressed its inability to even pay salaries to its employees. According to a notification issued by the university\’s registrar office on July 29, 2022, heads of all teaching and administrative departments were intimated to inform their employees that the management would not be
BREP: Houses and crops along with orchards were damaged after torrential rains triggered flash floods in Brep on Wednesday night. Flash floods and glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) have wrecked havoc in different parts of Chitral within the last about three weeks. After a long dry spell, there was a localized torrential rain in Brep
CHITRAL: Police in Lotkoh have been accused of misusing its powers and registering a criminal case under different sections of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) against nine people, including six underage boys, over a petty issue. The Lotkoh police arrested the nine people, including the six underage boys, and put them in the lock-up violating
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