TOP NEWS
Woman’s decomposed body recovered from riverside
CHITRAL: The decomposed body of a woman was recovered from the riverside at Sinkulum area located between Ayun and Orghoch on Tuesday, police and rescue officials said. Some locals spotted the body lying in the water and informed police. The police along with Rescue 1122 personnel reached the spot and retrieved the body. They said the body was quite old and decomposed. The police shifted the body to the District … Read more ↪
BRIEF NEWS
Rs65m approved for repair of roads in Chitral
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet on Tuesday approved Rs65 million for maintenance of Chitral-Ayun-Bumburet Road, Chitral-Garam Chashma-Dorah Road and Chitral-Booni-Mastuj-Shandur Road and bridges. Besides, the cabinet in a meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, took several other decisions. Talking to the media, Information Minister Shaukat Yousafzai said under the KP Special Police Officers (Regularization of Services) Act 2019, the officers of the special police recruited on contract or fixed … Read more ↪
OPINIONS
A doctor with milk of human kindness
By Shaban Wali The shell of illness when encloses your existence, reflects back all kinds of happy moments to be enjoyed. For the past a couple of years I had been roaming throughout the country in order to get few seconds free of misery. But my legs have sworn not to be mine; changing posture and walking for a moment became great challenge for me. Not a single doctor succeeded … Read more ↪
EDUCATION
Discontinuation of theology at intermediate level stayed
PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court has issued a stay order suspending action on a notification issued by the Peshawar Board of Intermediate and Secondary to discontinue theology subject at the intermediate level in colleges. A bench, consisting of Justice Lal Jan Khattak and Justice Syed Attique Shah, issued notices to the provincial education secretary and Peshawar BISE chairman asking them to respond to a petition challenging the discontinuation of theology subject … Read more ↪
Politics
Former union council member joins PTI
PESHAWAR: Khosh Nabi Khan, a former member union council (UC) Kosht, Upper Chitral, joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) here on Friday. In this regard, a function was held at the office of adviser to chief minister on minorities’ affairs MPA Wazirzada … Read more ↪
CULTURE
سلطان شاہ سوسوم – چترال کی ایک سحر انگیز شخصیت
میری ڈائری کے اوراق سے تحریر: شمش الحق قمر میری اور سلطان شاہ صاحب کی ملاقات ایک اتفاق تھی۔ ہمارے بیچ 30 سالوں کا فاصلہ حائل رہا تھا اس کے با وجود بھی اُن کا دل لُبھانے والاخط و خال میرے ذہن کےنہاں خانے میں محفوظ تھا ۔ میری 30 سالوں کے بعد جب اُن سے ملاقات ہوئی تو آپ ایک خوفناک جیب حادثے سے بال بال بچنے کے بعد … Read more ↪
LETTERS
Making an impact through education
Hello, My name is Alesha Faraz and I am 13 years old. I’m doing an NGO with my two friends Zainah Maqbool and Misha Saqib. We have seen your blog [chitraltoday.net] and it’s amazing how you guys are trying to … Read more ↪