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CHITRAL: The 1st Chitral Open Chess tournament finalized at the football stadium of Govt High School Chitral. Some 52 players from the country participated in this tournament.  In the final round of the tournament, Wasim Akram from Lahore won the match and was declared champion of the tournament. While Muhammad Shahzad of Faisalabad won the second position. Local players of chess …

CHITRAL:  Hundreds of people of Mastuj Tehsil of Upper Chitral District under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ismail Wali started construction of a 30 km road of Mastuj on their self-help basis. Earlier that, a briefing ceremony was held near Mastuja Bridge in which Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ismail said that since not a single kilometer of (blacktop) road was paved …

A new renting service is initiated in Booni Bazar by the famous environmentalist and activist Mr. Rehmat Ali Jaffar Dost. The aim of this initiative is to make renting services better for the people of Booni. Some of the services that this business would offer include renting of camping and other travel gears, cameras, tent, generator, sound system, multimedia system, …

In 1997, Rooziman Shah mopped floors at a Blimpie Subs & Salads gas station. It wasn’t the job he had expected. Rooziman came from Chitral, Pakistan. He studied political science and economics at the University of Karachi. He worked as a business center manager for Pearl Continental Hotels and Resorts, a chain of five-star hotels in the country. Coming to …

Death by suicide is a major public health problem that profoundly impacts families in a way few other things do. Every year, many people at risk of suicide seek and get help, potentially saving themselves and their loved ones untold grief. What is suicide?  When a person loses the ability to think, worries about himself, does not care about his …

CHITRAL:  Golen Gol Water Supply Scheme which was destroyed due to a GLOF  event on July 8, 2019, and after that 40,000 people of Chitral Town were deprived of clean drinking water. Hence residents of Town area were supplied water from the Angar Ghon water supply scheme from time to time, but residents of  Koghazi to Danin, people faced great difficulties due to …

Islamabad, Pakistan, March 31, 2020 -: Today Pakistan’s Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation & Coordination has launched the Pakistan Government Corona Helpline on WhatsApp. The new service, which is free-to-use, provides a central source of accurate, trustworthy and up-to-date information about Coronavirus (COVID-19) for everyone in Pakistan.  The Pakistan Government Corona WhatsApp Helpline is an automated ‘chatbot’ service which will …

CHITRAL: Coronavirus has hit the country a month ago but there is nothing to control or diagnose this epidemic at Chitral hospitals. MNA Chitral Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali told in a press conference.  Cramming people into rooms like cattle in the so-called quarantine centers can be a disaster in the making. Quarantine means keeping a suspected infected person in a single …

O Lord, we are your frail creatures. We have very little capacity for suffering۔We are guilty sinners, have mercy on us۔We do not have the ability to cope with the calamity۔Forgive us whatever mistakes we have made۔Forgive us our sins by your charity۔Do not bring on us any disease which neither of us can afford۔O my Lord, there is no …

CHITRAL: Hundreds of people have to face problems due to the poor performance of the Chitral district administration. In Chitral, neither the health department has the cure for the prevention of Coronavirus nor there is a laboratory, scanner,  or machinery to diagnose it, even in District Headquarters hospitals and other health units across Chitral, there is no Scanner machine that can …