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ISLAMABAD, Jan 29: The Rawalpindi police have arrested a Chitrali man allegedly involved in murder of a man from Swabi district in connivance with a friend from Jhelum. Reports said Jamshed Ahmed, a resident of Chuinj village in upper Chitral, currently working with Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto University (SZABIST), was arrested along with his friend

PESHAWAR, Jan 27 (AFP): Teachers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are being given firearms training and will be allowed to take guns into the classroom in a bid to strengthen security following a Taliban massacre at a school last month. Heavily armed militants killed 150 people, 132 of them children, in a bloody December 16 attack

BOONI, Jan 27: A jirga of elders held to discuss the possibility of providing three extra hours electricity to offices during working hours ended without any result on Tuesday. The elders from Mulkhow, Biyar, Koh, Torkhow and Mulkhow also exchanged harsh words during the meeting. After the failure of the jirga, Assistant Commissioner Minhas Uddin

PESHAWAR, Jan 27: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Tuesday announced provision of sufficient funds for a number of small hydel power stations and other development projects for Chitral. The chief minister also said he was also going to visit Chitral soon and inspect the developmental process there by himself. He said that his government believed