BOONI: A vocational training centre has been opened for women in Booni, the headquarters of Upper Chitral. The centre is aimed at providing training to women of the area in different skills such as sewing, embroidery and fashion designing. The centre will also supply uniforms to different schools to generate revenue. A large number of […]
PESHAWAR: The deputy commissioner of Lower Chitral, Mr Muhammad Ali Khan, has been transferred and posted as additional secretary home and tribal areas department in Peshawar. In his place, Muhammad Imran, a grade 18 officer of Provincial Management Service, has been posted as the deputy commissioner of Lower Chitral. Muhammad Ali was made the DC
CHITRAL: A minor boy who went missing in a village in Mulkhow was caught at the Ashiret checkpost near Lowari tunnel while being taken to Karachi by his father, police said. Reports in social media earlier said that Sohail Ahmed, son of Ali Ahmed of Kushum village, had gone to Kosht Sandragh village along with
CHITRAL: The dead body of a young unmarried woman was recovered from the riverside near Kuru locality of Jughore on Thursday, Rescue 1122 Lower Chitral said. It said that the unmarried woman had fell into the river from the bridge in front of Chitral Scouts headquarters. The emergency service said the deceased belonged to the
CHITRAL: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari here on Wednesday said he will put the demand of the people of Chitral before his sister Asifa Bhutto to contest election from Chitral in the next general elections. “As the demand has come from the people of Chitral, I will put it before Asifa and persuade her to
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CHITRAL: Civil society and social activists on Saturday strongly condemned alleged attack by workers of a contractor of the Chitral-Mastuj road project on journalist Gul Hamaad Farooqui. Speaking at a press conference here along with the journalist, they said people of Chitral have been complaining against Umar Jan and Co. for highly poor quality work
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HUNZA: A one-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant (SPP) with 600kWh battery storage was inaugurated in Hunza district of Gilgit-Baltistan on Friday. NPak Energy Limited, a subsidiary of the Industrial Promotion Services (IPS), the industrial and infrastructure development arm of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), commissioned the project. It sets a unique precedent
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CHITRAL: Police have registered a first information report (FIR) against three laborers working on the under-construction Chitral-Booni road on the charge of physically assaulting and threatening senior journalist Gul Hamaad Farooqui. However, no further action has been initiated against the nominated persons. According to the FIR, Faqooqui was returning home at Shahmiran Deh in Chitral
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BOONI: A 9th class student from the remote village of Upper Chitral topped a nation-wise speech contest in Urdu language held in Peshawar in connection with a Seeratun Nabi conference. Assistant District Education Officer Upper Chitral Rehmat Ali Khan told ChitralToday that Aliur Rehman, of the Govt High School Verkhop, had earlier held first position
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ISLAMABAD: The federal government has restrained police across the country from arresting Afghan Ismailis living in Pakistan without documentation, as the Canadian government has announced their relocation. According to a notification, \”Exemption from arrest IRO illegal foreigners destined to third countries\”, issued by the Ministry of Interior, Islamabad, dated November 2, 2023, members of the
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