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CHITRAL, Nov 16: Attendance in schools of both public and private sectors and offices remained low and the shopkeepers pulled down shutters in Ayun village on Friday to protest against the arrest of the villagers who had resisted cutting of trees in the local forest. Situated on the confluence of the two Kalash valleys of […]

Report G.H. Farooqui CHITRAL, Nov 16: Students from different schools in Ayun on Friday boycotted their classes in solidarity with the traders union whhave launched a campaign against the arrest of 20 people and registration of cases against 53 others by the Chitral police. A public gathering was also held at Jamia Masjid Ayun where

AYUN, Nov 16: Police here on Friday arrested about 20 persons on the charge of rioting and violating section 144 and registered cases against 20 others. The arrests were made during a shutter-down call given by the residents of Ayun and nearby areas against brutal cutting of forest in the Kalash valleys and non-release of

ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: The National Crisis Management Cell at the Ministry of Interior has, in a letter, warned the Gilgit-Baltistan government of possibility of terrorist attacks during the month of Moharram. It has also been mentioned in the letter that the Taliban have dispatched over two dozen terrorists to Waziristan for getting trained in terrorist

CHITRAL, Nov 15: As Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf even could not fulfil his promise to open the second phase of work on the incomplete Lowari Tunnel on Thursday, hundreds of passengers coming to Chitral and going from here  to other parts of the country had to face physical hardship and mental agony for two days.