PESHAWAR: Health Foundation is yet to hand over eight hospitals in erstwhile FATA and Chitral outsourced to non-governmental organisations in erstwhile FATA and Chitral in June last year owing to objections by the Board of Governors. Sources said the operations of Health Foundation (HF), which was required to contract out health facilities under Khyber Pakhtunkhwa […]
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BREP: A teenage boy from Brep, Upper Chitral, died in a road traffic accident in Peshawar on Thursday. Husni Mubarak, 15, son of Muhammad Ayub of Thurjal, Brep, was travelling on the pillion of a motorcycle with a friend from Peshawar when the accident occurred. However, the driver of the bike remained unhurt, family sources
CHITRAL: Local people have demanded establishment of a material testing laboratory in Chitral for the departments of communication and works (C&W), irrigation and public health engineering to ensure quality of development works. Former MPA Syed Sardar Hussain Shah said in every district there was a material testing laboratory to test the quality of concrete, asphalt,
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GARAM CHASHMA: The Garam Chashma road was damaged beyond repair in the 2015 floods and after the passage of over five years it could not be brought to the pre-flood condition. Due to lack of maintenance, the road\’s condition has further deteriorated and despite appeals and protests by local people, the dilapidated road was not
Sher Afgan RESHUNUN: Negligence to fix a minor issue sometimes could lead to a major incident if left unattended. Commuters travelling on Chitral-Mastuj road told ChitralToday that water was flowing into the road from Raghen Gol due to blockages on its way. The water then gets frozen at night and makes the road muddy at
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Manzoor Ali PESHAWARAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has planned to establish at least 10 economic zones across the province in the next decade under the Industrial Policy, 2020. The provincial cabinet had approved the policy last month. According to the policy, a copy of which is available with Dawn, the proposed zones include Rashkai Special Economic
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CHITRAL: People of Upper Chitral have expressed their dismay over failure of the government to rehabilitate irrigation and water supply infrastructure as well as roads and bridges which had been swept away by flash floods in 2015. Tahaffuz-i-Huqooq Upper Chitral general secretary Muhammad Pervez Lal said the chief minister had assured the local leaders during
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Zar Alam Khan ISLAMABAD: While 9 to 12 classes are opening from Jan 18 after months of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has created a crisis not only for its educational institutions but also for about 300 teachers, mostly women, from provinces working in Islamabad under the wedlock
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ISLAMABAD: Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood on Friday announced a revised schedule of the reopening of schools, according to which classes from 9 to 12 will begin from January 18 as planned previously, while classes 1-8 will start from February 1 instead of January 25. Mahmood was addressing a press conference after the National Command and
CHITRAL: The four-day snow sports festival will begin in Madak Lasht village of Sheshi Koh valley from Jan 29 in which besides local and national teams some foreign teams are also expected to participate. The event is being managed by the Hindu Kush Snow Sports Club with the financial assistance of tourism department. The first
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