CHITRAL: Saffron and olive cultivation at a large scale will help in poverty alleviation in Chitral, said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Shah Farman on Saturday. During a visit to saffron and olive fields in Jinjiret village near Drosh town, the governor said 400,000 hectares of land in the province, including Chitral, had been found to be […]
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CHITRAL: The blacktopping of the Garam Chashma road between Singoor and Balach has been completed after a delay of about four months. The portion of the road also caters to over 50,000 population of the two villages and other areas. The NHA had contracted out the work in July but the contractors could not complete
CHITRAL: District judiciary gets IMS facility. Lower Chitral became the second district in the province where institution and copying branch of the judiciary has been connected to information management system (IMS) giving an easy and ready access to the litigants. In a function held on Thursday on the premises of the district kutcheri, the opening
AWI (UPPER CHITRAL): A new powerhouse of Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organization (PEDO) established by the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) in Memgol of Awi was formally inaugurated by KP chief minister\’s adviser on power Mr Taj Muhammad Tarand. Work on the 150 KV powerhouse was started in 2017 and after facing delays completed early
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M. Irshad Ullah CHITRAL: A man surrendered to police after killing a youth from Bamak village of Lower Chitral for honour in the Preyit village on Wednesday, sources in the police told ChitralToday. The victim was identified as Hayat Hussain, 23, a resident of Bamak. The sources said Hamza from Preyit went to a nearby
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MINGORA: The appointment of seven outsiders as Class IV in the district attorney office of Upper Chitral was on Tuesday stayed by Peshawar High Court (PHC), Mingora bench. The stay was issued on a petition filed by a civil society organization, Tehreek Tahafuz-e-Huqooq Chitral. Taking up the plea, the court issued notice to the government
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AYUN: There is an urgent need for starting double shift at the Govt Girls High School Ayun for higher secondary classes. Notables of Ayun, including former union council nazim Rehmat Elahi, ex-councillor Jandullah Khan, Wajibuddin, Atiqullah, Muhammad Abdullah and others demanded that the education department should start higher secondary classes at the school. They said
CHITRAL: Consumption of wood for heating and cooking has increased manifold in Chitral after the steep rise in prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and electricity. A number of timber stall holders in the city said the demand of oak and other species of wood had increased exponentially with the advent of winter and they
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PESHAWAR: Fencing of Afghan border and freezing of funds by federal govt blamed for decrease in number of markhors in Chitral Gol National Park. A markhor count survey conducted by the provincial wildlife department earlier last year carried shocking disclosures about the number of the national animal in Chitral Gol National Park. The official report
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CHITRAL: The reconstruction of the girls’ degree college road in Denin has started years after it remained in a dilapidated condition creating hardship for students and other commuters. The reconstruction work is being carried out by the National Highway Authority (NHA) as the portion of the road catering to the college is part of the
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