News & views from Chitral
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 […]
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 […]