CHITRAL: Two young women committed suicide on a single day – one each in Upper and Lower Chitral – on Friday, according to police. In the first incident, Nausheen Rehmat, 19, a resident of Bilphok village, on Garam Chashma road near the Chitral town, reportedly hanged herself with a ceiling fan in her house. A […]
PESHAWAR: General Manager (GM) Pakistan Television Aurangzeb Afridi on Friday said apart from news in PTV National Peshawar, the television will also start telecasting programs in the Khowar language soon. He said besides Chitral and Gilgit-Baltistan, there were also people who speak and understand Khowar in Central Asia, adding telecasting programs in the language will
Gul Hamaad Farooqui DROSH: A large number of people blocked the main Chitral-Peshawar road for several houses in Drosh town on the second consecutive day on Friday against police failure to arrest the killers of two men. The two men from Shahnigar area of Drosh were found shot dead in the Kaldam Gol area where
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Dear Editor, I am writing to express my deep concerns regarding the ongoing widening and carpeting project of the Chitral-Booni-Shandur Road. While the initiative holds great promise for connecting communities and boosting local economies, recent developments have raised serious questions about the integrity of the project\’s execution. It is disheartening to witness the rampant corruption
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CHITRAL: A woman was on Thursday arrested after recovery of over one kilogram of charas from her possession, the police said. According to a spokesman for the Lower Chitral police, a team during checking at Chew bridge on suspicions got a sack carried by the woman checked by lady constables. He said the police recovered
DROSH: For the first time in the history of Chitral, protesters blocked traffic by putting the dead bodies of two murdered men on the Chitral-Peshawar road on Wednesday afternoon. The two persons from Shahnigar area were found shot dead in the Kaldam Gol area where they had gone to collect firewood early on Wednesday. The
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CHITRAL: The district police officers of both Lower and Upper Chitral have been transferred and replaced with new ones. According to a notification issued by the inspector general of the police, Khyber Pakthunkhwa, Ikram Ullah, a grade 18 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) has been appointed as the DPO of Lower Chitral.
Kamal A. Jamil DROSH: The dead bodies of two persons believed to have been murdered over a land dispute were recovered from a forest at Kaldam Gol in Drosh on Wednesday. The victims belonged to Shahnigar area of Drosh. They have been identified as Ashraf Nabi, son of Gul Nayab, and Ihsanuddin, son of Nehrabuddin.
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CHITRAL: Tour operators, tour guides and hoteliers have urged the government to facilitate tourists coming for the religious festival of Uchal in Kalash Valley instead of harassing them at the checkpoints in Chitral. The Uchal festival of Kalash tribes concluded in Bumburate with the participants indulging in merry-making by dancing and singing. Talking to the
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BATTAGRAM: All the eight persons, including sic students, trapped on a chairlift in Battagram area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since 7am on Tuesday were rescued safely before midnight. Rescue 1122 spokesman Bilal Faizi confirmed that the stranded people, including six schoolchildren, had been rescued and brought down to safety at about 11pm. The incident had occurred
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