CHITRAL: The federal government has agreed to revise the estimate of cost for acquisition of land for the construction of the Chitral-Kalash valleys road. Chief minister\’s special assistant Wazirzada told ChitralToday that earlier the estimate for land acquisition was very low and that was why acquiring land for the project was not easy. He said […]
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CHITRAL: Prime Minister\’s Special Assistant on Overseas Pakistanis Zulfiqar (Zulfi) Bukhari on Wednesday inaugurated work on a five-star Bejaan Hotel in Chitral. Mr Bukhari arrived in Chitral in a special plane on the invitation of Mr Anwar Aman, a USA-based Chitrali business tycoon who is building the Bejaan Hotel. The hotel will be constructed on
KARACHI: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has held Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) responsible for the 2016 Havelian crash in which 48 passengers were killed. PK-661, was coming from Chitral to Islamabad when it crashed. The aviation authority submitted its initial report in the Sindh High Court on Tuesday. The report said the Aircraft Accident Investigation
CHITRAL: The villages in the valleys of Lot Koh, Kalash and Upper Chitral have been blanketed in yellow as the autumn season has set in which leaves of the deciduous plants changed to yellow, red and golden giving a spectacular view. The local people connected with tourism industry said that Covid-19 badly affected the arrival
CHITRAL: The dead body of a woman, who committed suicide by jumping into the Chitral river in Charun on Sept 24, was recovered from the riverside at Parpish on Monday. Rescue 1122 in a statement said that after being alerted by local people about the body, its staffers reached Parpish where the body had become
PESHAWAR: After deciding to enact a law for the recognition of their marriages, the provincial government has approved the establishment of the Kalash Valleys Development Authority (KVDA) to preserve the ancient culture of Kalash in Chitral. This was announced by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister’s Special Assistant on Minority Affairs Wazirzada while signing a memorandum
PESHAWAR: PTI Chitral leader Abdul Latif has moved a court in Peshawar to become a party in a defamation case former reserved seat MPA Fouzia Bibi filed against Prime Minister Imran Khan in 2018. Mr Latif has filed a plea in the additional district and sessions court in Peshawar where the defamation case is pending
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CHITRAL: A woman has approached the inspector general of police (IGP) seeking action against officials of the Drosh police for not arresting killers of her two sons. The woman alleged that the in-laws of her daughter were involved in the murder of her sons. She said the suspects also attacked her daughter and injured her
CHITRAL: In order to provide vegetables and fruits to the citizens at reasonable rates, the government has started work to establish Kisan bazaars in the province. The objective is to eliminate the role of the middlemen and facilitate the growers to sell their products to the consumers directly. In this regard, the government will provide
Shadman Zainul Abideen It is indeed unfortunate that after a lapse of almost four years into the Islamabad-bound PK-661 crash near Hawalian on December 7, 2016, the families of the 47 victims are yet to know the real cause of the incident. Although the initial report was released on July 25, 2020, which claimed that
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