HERAT: Jobless, debt ridden, and struggling to feed his children, Nooruddin felt he had no choice but to sell a kidney — one of a growing number of Afghans willing to sacrifice an organ to save their families, according to a report in Dawn.com. The practice has become so widespread in the western city of […]
PESHAWAR: A total of 31,545 candidates are running for tehsil mayors and chairmen and village and neighbourhood council members in 18 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including Lower and Upper Chitral, as their nomination papers for the second phase of local body elections on March 31 have been accepted by the returning officers. The nomination papers
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PESHAWAR: A delegation of elders from Chitral called on Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Friday and discussed with him public issues of their respective areas and matters related to preparations for the upcoming local bodies’ elections. The delegation was led by the Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Minority Affairs Wazirzada. On this occasion, Pakistan
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M. Irshadullah PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has sanctioned a new weather allowance for its employees which will come into effect from the current month. According to a notification issued by the finance department on Feb 25, the employees in hard/extreme areas such as Chitral, lower and upper, Dir, Swat and Shangla would get Rs80
DIZG (UPPER CHITRAL): The government\’s callous attitude towards public issues in remote areas of Chitral needs no elaboration but its apathy towards its own properties is disappointing. The state-era godown located in Dizg in Yarkhun valley catered to the villages of Dizg, Istach, Khruzg and Mahting. Later, the food department used it as a sale
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Local lore suggests Jinnah was born in Jhirk in 1876, at around the same time that the first Aga Khan had been living there. Hasan Ali Khan (Published in Dawn.com) On Saturday, October 9, 2021, I left Karachi with architect and urban planner Arif Hasan, his research assistant, student interns and a friend to head
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MROI (CHITRAL): Social, political activists and members of Tehreek Huqooq-e-Awam at a meeting here on Sunday gave the government departments concerned 72 hours to end power outages otherwise a protest sit-in would be held at Koghuzi. The meeting was held at the residence of Ghaffar Khan Lal in Mroi with senior lawyer Abdul Wali Khan
Muhammad Irshadullah PESHAWAR: An educational, social, cultural and entertainment programme was organized by Chitral Students Association in Peshawar on Sunday. The Chitral Educational Expo 2022 was held at the Pashtun Cultural Museum Hall, University of Peshawar, in collaboration with the Directorate of Youth Affairs. Special guest at the programme was District Police Officer (DPO) Khyber
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig It should be noted at the beginning of the article that initial work on the survey of the Booni-Torkhow road had been started in 2007. I very well remember the opposition shown by the inhabitants of Istaru when the whole sketch was not very clear when they came out against it
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BOONI: As many as 12 candidates from different political parties and independents have filed their nomination papers for the slot of chairman tehsil council Mastuj, according to a list released by the returning officer in Booni. The candidates are as follow: Muhammad Pervez, Ahmed Wali Shah, Amirullah, Fazlur Rehman, Muhammad Wazir Khan, Muhsin Hayat, Sardar
