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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.

CHITRAL, Nov 15: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Thursday cancelled his visit to the Lowari Tunnel in Dir site at the eleventh hour, sending a wave of anger among the PPP workers from Chitral and Dir who had reached there to receive him. [caption id=\”attachment_5665\” align=\”alignleft\” width=\”300\” caption=\”Angry PPP workers leave the venue after

By Manzoor Ali PESHAWAR: The locals call her Bibi Dow – because it is easy to pronounce – but for the 75-year-old social worker Maureen Lines, life has been anything but for the past few years. On the pretext of security, police personnel took Lines away from her home, in Birir village of Kalash Valley, and