By Zulfiqar Ahmad ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: Police have arrested a Chitrali man on the suspicion of killing a Pashtoon grocery store owner who went missing about a month ago from the Chitral town. Syed Karim, a resident of Dir, was running a grocery store in the Chitral town and had purchased a piece of land […]
BOONI, Sept 18: The people of upper Chitral, under the banner of Tehreek Hoqooq Awam, on Thursday held a protest demonstration at Booni Chowk against the local administration and some government departments for their alleged corruption. The protesters said some officials in the Communication and Works Department and the Tehsil Municipal Administration were involved in
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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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ISLAMABAD, Feb 12 (AFP): The Pakistani Taliban have announced an “armed struggle” against the indigenous tribe of Kalash and the Ismaili Muslims in the picturesque Chitral Valley, calling on Sunnis to support their cause in a video. The valley was once dominated by moderate Ismailis and is also home to the Kalash, a polytheistic people
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CHITRAL, March 5: The district and sessions judge Chitral on Tuesday also rejected the post-arrest bail petition of Jamaat-i-Islami leader and former district nazim Haji Maghfirat Shah in the explosives theft case. When the accused was produced before Judge Syed Zamurad Shah, defence lawyer Zafar Hayat said his client deserved bail as two other accused
Zulfiqar Ahmad CHITRAL, Feb 25: Former district nazim (mayor) of Chitral Maghfirat Shah was arrested in the explosives theft case in Chitral on Monday. Sources told chitraltoday.net that a local court gave the former nazim belonging to the Jamaat-i-Islami party to the Koghuzi police on a three-day physical remand. He was arrested from the premises
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