PESHAWAR: The name of MPA-elect from PK-1 Upper Chitral Suriya Bibi has been finalized for the post of deputy speaker of the Khyber Pakthunkhwa assembly. According to party sources, jailed PTI founder and former prime minister Imran Khan has approved Suriya Bibi as the deputy speaker of the assembly. Suriya Bibi is the only woman […]
CHITRAL: Police in Drosh have arrested an Afghan national and his local facilitator for trying to get a computerized national identity card on production of fake domicile and birth certificates. The arrests were made on the complaint of officials of the National Database and Registration Authority’s Drosh office. As per FIR registered in the Drosh
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GILGIT: Thousands of people are stranded after all landsliding blocked the Karakorum Highway in Kohistan, cutting off link between Gilgit-Baltistan and other parts of the country. Officials said that work at the blocked portion of the KKH had been started but it would take at least three days to clear the road and reopen it
CHITRAL: Hundreds of passengers were stranded after the Chitral-Dir road was blocked on Lowari due to heavy snowfall early on Monday. The Lower Chitral police said that about two feet of snowfall on both sides of the Lowari tunnel had blocked the road for all types of traffic. According to reports, a large number of
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ISLAMABAD: Khowar\’s iconic singer Mansoor Ali Shabab was among artists from different parts of the country who were given awards for their role in promotion of regional languages through music. Mansoor Shabab also performed on the occasion. The awards were distributed at the conclusion of the three-day annual Mother Languages Festival held at the National
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CHITRAL: The dead body of an unidentified man was recovered from River Chitral at Saeedabad area of Lower Chitral on Sunday, Rescue 1122 stated. It said someone informed the emergency service about the dead body after which a team reached the spot and recovered the remains from the river. The dead body was later shifted
Irshadullah Khan PESHAWAR: As a result of the financial crisis in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it is unlikely that printing of textbooks will be completed and delivered to students of government schools in the province on time. The publishers who printed the textbooks during the last academic year have been demanded that their arrears of Rs2.5 billion
PESHAWAR: At least three people, including a woman and a child, were killed when the roof of their house collapsed after a gas cylinder blast in Ejazabad locality of Gulbahar No 4 here on Friday morning. Officials of Rescue 1122 said after being informed its staff reached the spot and started rescue and relief activity
PESHAWAR: the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has launched GIS-based Centralized Urban Immovable Property Tax Management and Information System, thereby transforming the whole property tax regime into an automated, transparent and robust mechanism. A ceremony in this regard was held at Chief Minister\’s House on Friday with caretaker Chief Minister Syed Arshad Hussain Shah as chief guest. The
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CHITRAL: The district administration of Lower Chitral utilized the services of Communication and Works (C&W) Department to remove garbage that piled up in Chitral bazar. The garbage were seen across the Bazar as staff of the Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) continued their weeks-long strike against non-payment of salaries for four months. Before general elections on
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