News & views from Chitral
By: Muhkamuddin CHITRAL: A Chines mine worker got injured on Monday while working in his project site. It is learned that Mr. Luronglai was working in a marble site in Shidi village near Gahiret. On Monday the Chinese national came under the blast of dynamite in the project site and got severely injured. He was […]
May 13, 2019 By; Gul Hamad Faruqi CHITRAL: One of the girders of an RCC bridge being built over Chitral river in front of Green Lasht village in Upper Chitral fell into the river. However, no one was injured when the girder plunged into the river. The bridge is being built to connect Oveer valley […]
April 14, 2019 CHITRAL: The Levies force of Chitral won’t be merged with the regular police and will remain attached with the district administration as usual, said deputy commissioner. Chitral Levies, a local force comprised of almost 500-man is mandated to guard the district borders with Afghanistan to check smuggling and infiltration. The force also […]
March 24, 2019 PESHAWAR: Senior Minister for Tourism and Culture Muhammad Atif Khan has said that tourism police is being raised in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the promotion of tourism in the province. Speaking at a meeting with a delegation of Tourism Police of Thailand here on Thursday, he said that tourism police of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa […]
February 24, 2018 By. Muhkamuddin Ayuni CHITRAL: A large number of people on Sunday took out a rally in Chitral town against India for threatening Pakistan of consequences in the wake of the suicide attack on its security forces in Pulwama, occupied Kashmir, on Feb 14. The participants of the rally, who were chanting ‘Death […]
By. Kamal Abdul Jamil Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are considered to be the backbone of economy. In the present era, most of the developed countries discover their roots of economic development in the SMEs. Taking this optimistically the less-developed as well as developing countries have also their promising focus on promotion of SMEs. Purposefully, […]
Pakistan is fortunate to be home to three great mountain ranges: the Himalayas, the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush. In fact, on the drive up the Karakoram highway from Islamabad to Gilgit, I often stop at a place near Jaglote town where these three ranges actually meet. One can see the grand vista from the road, […]
February 08, 2019 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has made formal requests to 10 more countries under the OECD mechanism as well as Switzerland separately for exchange of information about those Pakistanis who stashed their assets abroad to evade taxes. “We have made requests to 10 more countries for getting automatic exchange of information and so far we […]
February 08, 2019 ISLAMABAD: The federal government would pay a whopping Rs3.6 trillion on account of defence and debt servicing that is equal to 68.2% of the current fiscal year’s revised budget, the centre on Wednesday sensitised the provinces about the grave fiscal situation that has thrown the country into a debt trap. After excluding debt […]
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 […]