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CHITRAL, May 23: Former president general (retired) Pervez Musharraf has extolled the people of Chitral for their fidelity and voting  for his party candidates in the May 11 general elections.  MNA-elect Shahzada Iftikharuddin, while talking to this correspondent from Islamabad after meeting the former president on Thursday, said the APML chief advised him to sit

ISLAMABAD, May 23: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Thursday dismissed PPP candidate from PK-90, Sardar Hussain’s application for recounting of votes. The ECP told the losing PPP candidate that his application had already been rejected by the election officials in Chitral and his further insistence had wasted the time of the ECP. Sardar Hussain

CHITRAL, May 23: The following is the polling station-wise results of PK-90, Upper Chitral.–Waqar Ahmed ]]>

CHITRAL, May 22: People in Kalash valleys of Bumburate, Birir and Rumbur and Ayun village are these days busy in ‘making money’ by collecting morels, a superb variety of mushroom, in the nearby forests where the season is in its full swing. Muhkam Ayuni, a development worker in Kalash valley, told this correspondent that the

ISLAMABAD, May 21: PPP runner-up from upper Chitral’s provincial assembly seat of PK-90, Sardar Hussain, on Monday told a press conference in Islamabad that he was going to launch a hunger strike till death if his demand for recounting of votes was not accepted by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). It may be noted