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CHITRAL, Dec 28: The chairman of Human Rights Programme Chitral (HRPC) Niaz A. Niazi advocate has said the year 2012 proved to be the worst for women and children in the district. He told reporters here on Friday, 15 cases of suicide of women were reported during the year while five women were murdered and

CHITRAL, Dec 27:  Quran Khwani was held at Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) office here for the soul of senior minister KPK Bashir Bilour who was assassinated a few days back in a suicide attack in Peshawar. Those who attended the event included Qadir Naseer, Tehsil Municipal Officer, Engineer Khurshid Azad, infrastructure officer Karimullah (TOR) and all staff of

MANSEHRA, Dec 26: Senior officials from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) on Wednesday signed an agreement, allowing non-custom paid (NCP) vehicles from Kohistan and GB to ply in their respective jurisdictions. Tension gripped both sides of the border on Tuesday evening after Diamer district administration stopped entry of NCP vehicles, owned by Kohistanis, in its

CHITRAL, Dec 26: Transporters have increased the Chitral-Peshawar fare of coaches 50 per cent after the closure of Lowari top road though only the provincial transport authority can do so under the law. Naeem Gul, a resident of Drosh town, told this correspondent on Wednesday that previously, the coach fare between Chitral and Peshawar was

By Islamuddin        Large scale irregularities have come to light in the award of contracts and execution of projects in Garam Chashma area. The Droshp-Garam Chashma section of Chitral-Garam Chashma road remained in bad shape for the last three years. The money allocated for carpeting was misutilized for digging and erecting plump concrete wall