CHITRAL: Floods in different areas of both Lower and Upper Chitral have hit scores of sub-valleys damaging public and private properties besides cutting off the areas. A youth reportedly drowned in the river in Mirkhani in Lower Chitral while two children were saved after they fell into floodwater in Khruzg village of Yarkhun. The children […]
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RAWALPINDI: Army responded to armed men during the peace march in Bannu in accordance with its SOP, said ISPR Director General Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry. Addressing a news conference in Rawalpindi, the army spokesman said that eight army personnel embraced martyrdom in a terrorist attack in Bannu. Later, local people held a peace rally which was
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Zar Alam Khan For about 20 years, Asif Ali and his relatives have struggled to reclaim the flooded land on which once stood their homes and gardens. However, GLOFs pour water on their hopes after every one or two years by bringing down more boulders and debris from the glacier. \”It\’s our misfortune or the
Zar Alam Khan Without any tangible help coming from the government in the wake of the devastating rains and floods, people in most parts of Upper Chitral are facing an acute shortage of seeds to cultivate wheat in October and November. To compound the miseries of the populace hit hard by the floods and unprecedented
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Zar Alam Khan While the long snowy winter is around the corner in Upper Chitral, families displaced by floods in remote Yarkhun valley are struggling with shortage of food and absence of shelter as help is not reaching them due to accessibility issues. The floods washed away 74 houses in three villages of Yarkhun and
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