LKATHY GANNON LAHORE: March 27: It was barely 4 a.m. when 19-year-old Rinkal Kumari disappeared from her home in a small village in Pakistan\’s southern Sindh province. When her parents awoke they found only her slippers and a scarf outside the door. A few hours later her father got a call telling him his daughter, […]
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According to reports, Professor Masood Ahmed of Government Degree College Chitral and his brother, Sardar Ahmed, Principal of Chitral Education College, were visiting the office of Deputy District Officer Revenue, Wasil Khan and Tehsildar Nimatullah for remeasurement of their land acquired for expansion of Torkhown Road. Despite repeated instructions to the officials concerned by the
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PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Environment and Forests, Wajid Ali Khan has said three mega power projects, including one in Chitral, have been approved. The minister said Sarhad Hydel Development Organisation (SHYDO) had recently approved 36.6 Megawatt power project at Daral Khwar that would soon be launched in Swat district. He said government had
CHITRAL, March 25: Thousands of people in the district of Chitral have found their names missing in the preliminary voter lists prepared and displayed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). The voters, some of them living out of the valley, told chitraltoday.net that they inquired about their names in the list through the SMS
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The President had approved 189 Pakistan Civil Awards on August 14, 2011, including the 9 approved as special cases after August 14, 2011. The Governor Punjab on behalf of the President decorated 49 recipients of National Awards (Civil), at the Investiture Ceremony held at the Governor House Punjab, Lahore. 27 recipients of National Awards (Civil)
CHITRAL, March 22: A man was killed and eight others injured when an avalanche buried them in Chapali village of upper Chitral on Thursday morning. Police said the villagers were digging a channel for a mini-hydro-power station on a self-self basis when the avalanche from the nearby hillock hit them, killing one Gulab Khan on
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