District admin seals chairlift after incident. Bus to be arranged for students using chairlift. Rescue 1122 staff given cash awards and commendation certificates. KURAGH: Three people were stranded in a chairlift after its cable snapped over the river between Kuragh and Gahlasht in Upper Chitral on Tuesday morning. However, Rescue 1122 succeeded in bringing the […]
CHITRAL: A woman and her son fell into the Chitral river and were swept away on Friday evening. The woman and her son belonged to the Kuju upper village. They were in their cropland along the river in the village when they slipped into the water. Rescue 1122 Lower Chitral said its staff launched a
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CHITRAL: Two young women committed suicide on a single day – one each in Upper and Lower Chitral – on Friday, according to police. In the first incident, Nausheen Rehmat, 19, a resident of Bilphok village, on Garam Chashma road near the Chitral town, reportedly hanged herself with a ceiling fan in her house. A
Gul Hamaad Farooqui DROSH: A large number of people blocked the main Chitral-Peshawar road for several houses in Drosh town on the second consecutive day on Friday against police failure to arrest the killers of two men. The two men from Shahnigar area of Drosh were found shot dead in the Kaldam Gol area where
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CHITRAL: A woman was on Thursday arrested after recovery of over one kilogram of charas from her possession, the police said. According to a spokesman for the Lower Chitral police, a team during checking at Chew bridge on suspicions got a sack carried by the woman checked by lady constables. He said the police recovered
DROSH: For the first time in the history of Chitral, protesters blocked traffic by putting the dead bodies of two murdered men on the Chitral-Peshawar road on Wednesday afternoon. The two persons from Shahnigar area were found shot dead in the Kaldam Gol area where they had gone to collect firewood early on Wednesday. The
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Kamal A. Jamil DROSH: The dead bodies of two persons believed to have been murdered over a land dispute were recovered from a forest at Kaldam Gol in Drosh on Wednesday. The victims belonged to Shahnigar area of Drosh. They have been identified as Ashraf Nabi, son of Gul Nayab, and Ihsanuddin, son of Nehrabuddin.
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PESHAWAR: A divisional bench of Peshawar High Court (PHC) granted status quo against re-interviews scheduled for Tuesday (Aug 21) on 16 posts of lecturers and stopped any adverse actions against petitioners on Monday. Khalid Rehman Advocate argued before the bench, comprising of Justice Muhammad Ijaz Sabi and Justice Dr. Khursheed Iqbal Mehrun Nisa along, that
CHITRAL: A teenage boy who had gone missing from his house in Barenis on Aug 17, 2023, was recovered from a hotel in Chitral town on Saturday. The office of the deputy commissioner Lower Chitral in a statement said that taking notice of social media posts, the administration launched search for the boy. \”On information
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CHITRAL: A court has sentenced a man to lifetime imprisonment in a drug peddling case, the Lower Chitral police said on Thursday. It said the court also imposed a fine of Rs0.5 million under section 9D of the Control of Narcotics Substance Act. The convict, Muhammad Ejaz, son of Muhammad Ishaq, resident of Jughore, was
