News & views from Chitral
October 13, 2019 PESHAWAR: The local body elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are unlikely to be held within the stipulated 120 days after the dissolution of the last government system due to the government`s failure to make rules for local council delimitation. Sources told Dawn that the local government department had put up the delimitation rules […]
September 25, 2019 By: G.H. Faruqi CHITRAL: Students of Govt Degree College for Girls in Denin took out a rally in support of the people of Kashmir and to condemn Indian atrocities in the occupied valley. The rally started from the college and ended at the Chew bridge. The participants were carrying placards and chanting […]
September 10, 2019 CHITRAL: The future of University of Chitral is in jeopardy as the provincial government has failed to provide land for construction of its building for the third consecutive year, forcing the federal government to withdraw the Rs3 billion grant released in 2017, from the current budget. Sources in the higher education department […]
September 4, 2019 ISLAMABAD: With annual deforestation rate in Pakistan recorded as the world`s highest, the Lahore High Court has observed that such tendency will lead to increase in the spread of life-threatening diseases and ordered the Punjab government, Defence Housing Authority and various other development authorities to make a comprehensive policy for tree plantation […]
August 27, 2019 CHITRAL: People of Chapali at a meeting expressed their concerns over the delay in completion of a 250 kilowatt hydel powerhouse at Chumarkhan Gol. Work on the Chumarkhan hydro power project of Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organization (PEDO) had been launched by AKRSP in June 25 2015 and the project was scheduled to […]
August 27, 2019 By. Bashir Hussain Azad CHITRAL: An ideal working relationship exists between the military and civilian administration in Chitral. The military and the civilian admin are on same page and that is why issues of the locals are being resolved smoothly. Besides, impediments in the way of law and order and peace are […]
August 04, 2019 PESHAWAR: Provincial Senior Minister for Tourism Atif Khan Saturday said that they have already identified 11 new tourist sites and steps have been taken to provide facilities to the local and foreign tourists. He said this while talking to a delegation of the World Bank that called on him here. He said […]
PESHAWAR: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) have decided to carry out physical inspection of at least 17 potentially dangerous glaciers of Chitral district soon. Talking to reporters at the cabinet room of the Civil Secretariat, NDMA chairman Lieutenant General Mohammad Afzal said the relevant federal and provincial authorities […]
June 15, 2019 PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Friday approved an increase in the age of retirement for its employees from 60 years to 63 years to save Rs24 billion annually. The decision was made during a meeting of the provincial cabinet, which Chief Minister Mahmood Khan chaired here. Information minister Shaukat Ali Yousafzai […]
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 […]