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CHITRAL, Jan 27: The deputy chief of Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam (JUI) Chitral, Major (retired) Ahmed Saeed Qazi, has demanded of the government to take notice of the plight of labourers in the Lowari Tunnel project who are subjected to the worst kind of exploitation by the Korean construction company, Sambu. Talking to this correspondent here on

CHITRAL, Jan 27: Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Malakand Division Haji Abdullah Khan visited Chitral and held an open Darbar at the police line. The police personnel on the occasion brought their problems into the notice of the DIG. The constables complained that the quota for recruitment of police personnel’s children in the department was often

CHITRAL, Jan 26: The bodies of all the people who died in the tragic accident at Dalum Gol on Saturday were buried in two separate graveyards in the Shogram village on Sunday. Thousands of people from different parts of the district flocked to the village to attend the funerals. Touching scenes were witnessed on the

CHITRAL, Jan 26: The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) has selected six union councils for poverty alleviation with the financial assistance of Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF). In a briefing here, the regional programme manager of AKRSP, Engineer Sardar Ayub, and project manager of the PPAF Imtiaz Ahmed said they worked on two-pronged strategy

By Mohammad Ashfaq PESHAWAR, Jan 25: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa elementary and secondary education department has failed to ensure introduction of five regional languages as a compulsory subject in private schools in the province. Pashto, Hindko, Seraiki, Khowar and Kohistani have been taught in government primary schools at nursery level from the start of the ongoing