CHITRAL: The residents of Upper Chitral have asked the government to take swift action for the rehabilitation of roads and irrigation channels damaged by glacial lake outburst flooding (GLOF) in various areas of the district. Social figure Fayyaz Ahmad and other elders of Yarkhun Valley said that floods in various seasonal streams had washed away […]
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MASTUJ: Flooding in Pasum Gol between Chinar and Chuinj villages on Tuesday night blocked the main road to Yarkhun. The flood also blocked the Yarkhun river for some time, prompting the district administration to issue an alert to people living along the river to evacuate Rescue 1122 on Wednesday said its staff managed to build
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SHANDUR: Chitral once again beat Gilgit-Baltistan in a thriller by 10 to nine goals and lifted the annual Shandur polo cup 2022 on July 3. Chitral wins Shandur polo cup. It was Chitral\’s seventh victory at Shandur since 2014 except 2020 and 2021 when the festival could not be held due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
SHANDUR (UPPER CHITRAL): The annual Shandur polo festival 2022 started on July 1 after a gap of two years, which will continue till July 3. In 2020 and 2021, the event could not be held due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Thousands of people had encamped at the venue days before the start of the three-day
We are deeply saddened over the passing of Ehsanul Haq Jan of Booni, Upper Chitral, in United States of America (USA). He was 52. Ehsanul Haq Jan was associated with the UNICEF and had been living in the USA along with his family for the last many years. Earlier, he worked with the AKDN in
PESHAWAR: A student from Chitral was found strangled to death in a room of a private hostel of Islamia College University Peshawar. The victim was identified as Shahid Ahmed, a mathematics student from Chitral. The dead body was shifted to his native area by the police after postmortem. Police said they have registered a case
CHITRAL: A seven-year-old child died and five people were injured in a road traffic accident in the jurisdiction of Koghuzi police on Wednesday. A double-cabin Datsun was coming to Chitral town from Verkhop in Upper Chitral carrying the six persons when it met with the accident at Mori Lasht. Eyewitness said the driver, Samiur Rehman
By Adnan Zainul Abideen The Aga Khan Education Service (AKES), aided by its vast network of schools, has been playing a significant role in the provision of quality education to the youth – boys and girls – of the region from grassroots level. AKES schools have been imparting early childhood development (ECD) to the higher
BOONI: An application has been filed in a court in Booni seeking a stay order against holding of tests by the Educational Testing and Evaluation Agency (ETEA) for candidates from Chitral at Chakdara instead of Chitral. The court was moved against ETEA by youth councilor Attaur Rehman for calling candidates belonging to Chitral to Chakdara
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CHITRAL: Six Afghan nationals have been arrested by the police for illegally entering Pakistan through the border along the Osiak area of Lower Chitral. According to District Police Officer (DPO) Sonia Shamroz Khan, the six Afghans were rounded up from Osiak, Jinjiret and Khairabad with the help of intelligence agencies. They had entered the country
