PESHAWAR: A total of 33 new development projects of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been reflected in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the year 2021-22 out of which 14 projects would be executed by the provincial government and the other by the federal government. Meanwhile, the construction of a 495 megawatt hydro powerhouse in Chitral […]
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Hundreds of millions of children in South Asian countries including Pakistan and India are suffering as their schools have been closed because of the coronavirus but they lack online devices and connections for remote learning, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said on Thursday. The repeated school closures since last year had affected 434 million children
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Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig On 19th August, a three-member expedition of Georgian climbers reached Zondrangram with an NOC and permit from the authorities concerned. They left for the base camp the next morning and set up their tents with Irshad as a tourist guide and Mr. Hayat as cook. They had hired 30 porters from
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BOONI: Drivers of public and goods transport vehicles were fined for overloading on roads to different areas of Upper Chitral on Wednesday. Shah Adnan, Assistant Commissioner Mastuj at Booni, along with district administration and police officials set up halting points on different roads and caught overloaded vehicles. The drivers were told that if they violated
CHITRAL: A woman from Ayun, who was married to a man from Nowshera, was found hanged in Kharian, Punjab, where her husband worked. The deceased, Samina Niaz, daughter of Jang Aman, aged 26, of Muldeh Ayun, was mother of a two-year-old daughter. An army official reported to the police in Kharian Cantonment that Nadir Pervez
GH Frooqui CHITRAL: Onion seeds produced by an organization in Chitral are getting popularity across Pakistan as well as abroad because of its high quality, officials of the organization said. The officials of the Magnus Kahl Seeds (MKS) Chitral were briefing Afaq Ahmed, the director general of the Federal Seed Certification and Registration Department Islamabad,
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Sher Afgan BOONI: Representatives of different political parties and civil society at a meeting in Booni warned government employees and some political elements in Lower Chitral against trying to create misunderstanding and differences among the people of the two districts. They said vested interest groups and some government employees in Lower Chitral had been issuing
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PESHAWAR: With the Americans headed home, the residents of Afghanistan are on the verge of a humanitarian crisis due to the increasing political instability. As things stand, around 0.27 millions Afghans are projected to be displaced and the number is expected to grow. Sources familiar with the development indicate that as a response to averting
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GH Farooqui CHITRAL: Commandant Chitral Scouts Brig Muhammad Ali Zafar paid tributes to the personnel and officers of the force for rendering valuable services and sacrifices for the defence of the motherland. He was speaking at a function held at the Chitral Scouts headquarters on Defence Day on Monday. Relatives of Scouts and Police martyrs
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CHITRAL: Additional District Judge Lower Chitral Mr Muhammad Qasim has observed that the report published in ChitralToday about sacked AKES Chitral assistant general manager Zohran Shah in the year 2014 was “true and published in good faith and public interest”. The plaintiff, Zohran Shah, pursued the defamation case against the online newspaper for over seven
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