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GILGIT, July 19: The Gilgit-Baltistan government has proposed new dates to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for the holding of the Shandur polo festival. “We have proposed August 20, 21 and 22 to KP,” said Ghizer Deputy Commissioner Sibtain Ahmed on Friday. We hope the event takes place on the proposed dates, he added. The KP government

CHITRAL, July 18: Deputy Commissioner Chitral Mohammad Shoaib Jadoon has said that district border police force is being strengthened to effectively check the intrusion of terrorists from the neighbouring Afghanistan. He was speaking on the occasion of giving compensation amount to relatives of deceased personnel of the border force here the other day. The deputy

CHITRAL, July 19: The Aga Khan University Examination Board declared the results of secondary school examination held in May 2012-13 in its affiliated schools in Pakistan. From the Aga Khan Higher Secondary School Chitral (boys) Amir Sohail, Saqib Azam and Imtiazul Hassan obtained 443, 441 and 437 out of 525 respectively and grabbed first, second

CHITRAL, July 18: Former MPA from lower Chitral, Haji Zafar Ahmed, died of heart attack on Wednesday evening. He was 65. He was laid to rest at his ancestral village of Roji in the Lot Koh valley on Thursday. Mr Ahmed was elected MPA in the non-party elections of 1985. The deceased had also taken

ISLAMABAD, July 17: The National Highway Authority (NHA) official informed APP on Wednesday that the delay in the construction work was due to 2011 floods and the disputes over payment between the Korean construction company SAMBU and the NHA. He said that when the Lowari Tunnel project began in 2005 it was planned to be