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Chitral sees gradual climate change

CHITRAL, Nov 24: The valleys of Chitral have witnessed a distinct variation in climatic conditions over the last four decades, shortening the duration of winter by months and reducing its severity. Senior citizens, mostly those in their seventies and eighties, told this corerspondent that Chitral’s climate had undergone a tangible change over decades and that […]

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Naat competition held

CHITRAL, Nov 24: A Naat competition was held at the Government Higher Secondary School Drosh under the auspices of Preservation of Indigenous Culture and Language (PICL) in collaboration with the Cooperative Approach for Development (CAD). Regional Programme Manager of Hasho Foundation Sultan Mahmood was chief guest while the ceremony was presided over by prominent scholar

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Explosion near police station

GILGIT, Nov 23: Panic swept through Gilgit town on Friday evening after a homemade explosive device, exploded in a house situated close to the Police Lines. “There were no casualties whatsoever thank God,” DIG Police Ali Sher told The Express Tribune soon after the blast. While there was no fresh congregation, morning processions were returning

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Public prosecutor appointed

PESHAWAR, Nov 23: The provincial government has ordered that Taj Noor Khan, a district public prosecutor (BS-19), has been transferred from Buner and posted against the vacant post in Chitral. The government also conferred the powers of magistrate 1st class upon Manzoor Ahmed and Syed Mazhar Ali Shah, officers from the provincial management service (PMS)

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Bodies exhumed

CHITRAL, Nov 21: The local police exhumed the bodies of two brothers on the orders of a local court who had been allegedly tortured to death by their own brother in Broze village eight months ago. The prosecution had requested the court to order the exhumation of the graves of Habibur Rahman and Saiful Mulk

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