Syed Mehdi Bukhari There is no power that unites Pakistan as strongly as an outsider pointing out our flaws. Not only do we instantly band together but we also become extremely defensive and often cannot see the rationale behind their thoughts or their interest in our wellbeing. Last week, a solo female motorcycle adventure traveller […]
DROSH: Three persons have been killed over an old land dispute in Ashiret, Lower Chitral. The deceased have been identified as Iqbal, Tariq and Sher Azam, residents of Patu Dam, Ashiret. Hashim, son of Ajab Khan, and Aidees, residents of Kotga, have been nominated as the alleged killers by relatives of the deceased. The deceased
YARKHUN: A teenage boy committed suicide by jumping into the Yarkhun river in front of Meragram No 2 on Thursday afternoon. Local people told ChitralToday that Janbaz Khan, 17, son of Sher Bahadar, jumped into the river from a bridge after leaving his mobile phone on the bridge. He was a student of class 10th.
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CHITRAL: MNA Molana Abdul Akber Chitrali on Friday categorically rejected an alelgation by contractors that he was hands in glove with officials of PWD in awarding contracts of projects being executed under the MNA funds to a blue-eyed contractor. He was reacting to the allegation made by the contractor association of Chitral on June 25
HARCHIN: Elders of Laspur at a meeting here said the local police is trying to occupy a rest house constructed for the public on the main road in Harchin through funds provided by former member provincial assembly Haji Ghulam Muhammad. In a resolution addressed to the deputy commissioner and the district police officer of Upper
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CHITRAL: The residents of Broghil valley in Chitral say that the recent construction of an all-weather road to Broghil by AKRSP promises the development of the underdeveloped valley in the country’s northernmost region. According to them, basic facilities are largely unavailable to them as the valley remains inaccessible for seven months of the year due
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CHITRAL: People of Jughoor blocked Chitral-Peshawar road for two hours after a taxi car hit and injured a woman. The wife of Muhammad Khan was crossing the road when the Ghugai (NCP-2593) hit her. The injured was shifted to the district headquarters hospital. People of the area then blocked the road in protest due to
A tourist shot an endangered female Kashmir Markhor in Chitral’s Toshi Shasha conservation centre Monday afternoon. According to witnesses, the Markhor was drinking water from a river near the Garam Chashma road when the bullet hit her and the six-year-old animal fell into the river. The eyewitnesses said a tourist from outside Chitral shot the
CHITRAL: A speeding vehicle hit and injured a man in Mori Lasht on Sunday. Rescue 1122 said Abideenullah, a resident of Chewo Doke, was crossing the road in Mori Lasht when he was hit by the vehicle, a Rush. Rescue 1122 reached the spot and shifted the injured to the DHQ hospital.
PESHAWAR: A divisional bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on has restrained the settlement officer of Chitral from handing over land settlement record to the deputy commissioners of Upper and Lower Chitral, the Malakand Commissioner, or otherwise notifying the same. Inhabitants of Chitral had filed a writ petition in the PHC in 2019 challenging
