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KPCTA announced it will install camping pods at 10 more tourist spots besides granting loans to the locals to launch projects and create opportunities.

K-P govt issued new directions with enhanced restrictions for nine districts of the province to curtail spread of coronavirus and its newly reported variants.

The animal is new to most of the locals.

PESHAWAR: The fast-spreading 4th wave of coronavirus on Thursday claimed 20 more lives in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Also, it infected 682 more people in KP that brought the total number of infected people...

CHITRAL: The body of a married woman, who had allegedly committed suicide in Torkhow area of Upper Chitral, was recovered from a river near Nishko village here on Tuesday. A Rescue 1122 official told Dawn that the woman was reportedly suffering from mental illness. He said the woman ended her life by jumping into river. The official said that search for her had been going on for last two days. He said that Rescue 1122 swimmers faced difficulty in tracing out the body as the river was in high fl...

Coronavirus claims 9 more lives in KP PESHAWAR: The deadly coronavirus claimed nine more lives and infected 458 people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday. With the latest fatalities, the death toll from the infectious disease rose to 4,477 in KP. The viral infection has infected 1,45,306 people in the province so far. Of nine fatalities, five were reported from Peshawar alone. Peshawar has lost 2,166 people to the infectious disease since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020. Besides Peshawar, tw...

River destroys link road, fertile land in Upper Chitral July 29, 2021 BOONI: The gushing Yarkhun River destroyed the only link road between two villages and hundreds of acres of fertile land in Upper Chitral, the locals said on Wednesday. “The river has not only destroyed our fertile land of hundreds of acres but also washed away the link road to Khuzh and Deewangul villages,” said Illahi Bakhsh Lal. He said the river had changed its course last year and had washed away their hundreds of ...

Corona kills seven in KP July 29, 2021 PESHAWAR: The coronavirus has started spreading due to multiple factors in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and claimed seven lives and infected 399 people on Wednesday. It is stated to be the highest death toll in the fourth wave. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has lost 4435 people as a result of coronavirus since the outbreak of the infectious disease in 2020. Also, 142799 people had suffered from the Covid-19 in KP and 135687 successfully recovered. According to health experts...

Three killed as vehicle falls into gorge in Upper Chitral July 18, 2021 CHITRAL: Three persons, including a woman and a child, were killed and 11 others sustained injuries when a van fell into a ravine near Reshun village in Upper Chitral on Saturday. Police and eyewitnesses said that the vehicle, which was on its way to Booni from Peshawar. “The driver lost control over the steering while negotiating a turn at Doomon Gol and the vehicle fell into the gorge,” said an eyewitness. He said t...

PPP leader blasts govt for abandoning uplift projects in Chitral July 14, 2021 CHITRAL: Former provincial minister Salim Khan on Tuesday said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government had abandoned the ongoing development projects let alone initiating mega schemes in the Upper Chitral and Lower Chitral districts. “Our both the districts are still faced with backwardness despite the eight years of the PTI government in the province,” he told a press conference here. Pakistan People’...