CHITRAL: A student of 9th class reportedly fell off a bridge into the river in Kushum village on Saturday. Rescue 1122 said Arsalan, aged 15 years, son of Sher Arab, was a patient of epilepsy. He fell into the river from the bridge at Pastkhora. Rescue staff launched a search for the dead body of
CHITRAL: For the last one week or so, residents of Gobor Bakh, a remote village on the Afghan border in Lotkoh, have one after the other demanded action against a local resident for allegedly occupying their land, extorting money and threatening and bullying them. On Saturday, another resident of the area, Qazi Fazal Mola, told
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CHITRAL: Eight schools were closed in Lower Chitral district and two in Upper Chitral district on Friday after scores of students tested positive for coronavirus. Officials said the screening of other students, teachers and other staff members of those schools for Covid-19 was underway, and schools closed in Chitral where cases were detected. Deputy district
CHITRAL: The Swat circuit bench of Peshawar High Court has ordered the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to make payment of salaries of 20 months to 108 Class-IV employees of health department who had been appointed in Chitral in December 2019, but their salaries were stopped due to irregularities in the recruitment process. An official of
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PESHAWAR: A total of 33 new development projects of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been reflected in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the year 2021-22 out of which 14 projects would be executed by the provincial government and the other by the federal government. Meanwhile, the construction of a 495 megawatt hydro powerhouse in Chitral
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