RAWALPINDI: Medium pacer Hasan Ali took a maiden 10-wicket haul to help Pakistan win its first series against South Africa since 2003 with a 95-run victory in the second Test on the fifth and final day in Rawalpindi on Monday. Hasan finished with 5-60 to record his best match figures of 11-114 and help dismiss […]
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Zulfiqar Ahmad ISLAMABAD: Israr Saboor, a leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chitral, has started an intense lobbying for a party ticket to contest the Senate elections from Khyber Pakthunkhwa. Well-placed sources privy to the development told ChitralToday that Saboor who remained the runner up in the 2018 general elections from PK-1 Chitral is “moving from pillar to
CHITRAL: Activists of different political parties, including PML-N and Pakistan People\’s Party, held a protest rally against the government for abandoning the establishment of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) plants at three places in Chitral. The project was planned by the previous Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government but shelved by the PTI government recently. Led by Qazi
YARKHUN: Police have arrested the young man who opened fire in the house of his in-laws, killing a sister of his father-in-law and injuring his wife and her mother in Bang village on Friday, locals told ChitralToday. The locals said Junaid Akber shot dead the 60-year-old Khosh Nan after she entered into arguments with him
YARKHUN: An elderly woman was killed and two others were injured when a young man opened fire in the house of his in-laws in Bang village on Friday morning, local sources told ChitralToday. They identified the deceased woman as Khosh Nan, 60 years old. She was married in Booni but lived in her parents\’ house
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DROSH: Local people have demanded an investigation into the incident of a fire that erupted in a timber machine at Tonga bazaar Drosh in the wee hours of Feb 5 (Friday). The fire completely damaged the timber machine and partially damaged an adjacent house, locals told ChitralToday. The owner of the machine said after he
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CHITRAL: People of Chitral have criticised the apathy of National Highway Authority (NHA) towards the maintenance of roads since taking over their control five months ago. Former district council member Riaz Diwanbegi said after the formal transfer of Shandur Road (147km) and Garam Chashma Road (92km) to NHA, the communication and works department had removed
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KURAGH: People of Upper Chitral at a meeting here on Tuesday postponed their protest against power crisis from Feb 3 to Feb 8. The decision was taken at a meeting of Tehreek Huqooq-e-Awam in Kuragh today. According to the resident engineer of Reshun powerhouse, Chitral is not getting electricity from Chakdara grid station and the
MADAK LASHT: People of Madak Lasht in Shishi Koh valley of Lower Chitral have expressed their reservations over government\’s plan to turn their area into a tourist centre saying this would put their indigenous culture and traditions at stake. They were speaking at an open forum arranged by the deputy commissioner of Lower Chitral to
Zar Alam Khan ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Athar Minallah on Monday came down hard on Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) for its double standard in regard to the services of teachers working in the capital under the wedlock policy. The court directed the FDE to submit the criteria under which it had absorbed
