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DROSH, March 19: A huge explosion rocked the town of Drosh on Wednesday afternoon but there was no casualties. The police said the blast occurred in the office of cell phone service provider, Mobilink, at about 1:30pm. The office is situated near the local post office. The police added that as soon as the staff

CHITRAL, March 18: Two students, a sister and her brother, were killed when an avalanche hit them in a village near Shoghore. Reports said the students of Bacha Khan School were walking home after school hours when they were buried under the avalanche on the Garam Chasma Road. The victims were identified as Zakaria, aged

ISLAMABAD, March 18: We mostly feel pride in hunting down migratory ducks and displaying their beaks on the walls of our houses. And same is the case with the horns of the more pricey markhor or ibex declared endangered species. However, despite a ban on the hunting of these birds and animals, there have been

CHITRAL, March 17: Widespread and intermittent rains and snowfall for the last about 48 hours have blocked roads to different valleys in Chitral. The snowfall in upper Chitral also continued. However, the snow was melting away making the roads into muddy tracks. In lower parts of Chitral, the Garam Chashma and Kalash valleys have been