January 19, 2019 CHITRAL: An improvised explosive device (IED) went off in Arandu along the Afghan border killing a security personnel on Saturday. Deputy Commissioner Chitral Khurshid Alam Mahsud confirmed the incident and identified the martyr as Javed Ahmed, son of Abdul Hakim, a sepoy of Chitral Levies. He was a resident of the Arandu […]
Month: January 2019
2.6 million children out of School in KP
PESHAWAR: Despite lofty claims of the provincial education ministry, some 2.6 million children are out of schools in the province, said Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Standing Committee on Elementary and Secondary Education Chairman Taj Muhammad Khan on Thursday. Addressing the first meeting of the committee, Taj said that despite passing 13 years to the October 2005 earthquake, the […]
PIA & CAA blamed for PK-661 crash in 2016
January 12, 2018 ISLAMABAD: The Safety Investigation Board (SIB) tasked with a probe into the 2016 crash of a PIA’s domestic flight PK-661 that killed all the 46 people onboard, has found a ‘lapse’ on the part of PIA and a ‘lack of oversight’ by Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) that may have led to the […]