SHANGLA: The residents of Alpuri tehsil on Friday took to streets demanding rehabilitation of roads, water supply schemes, pedestrian paths washed away in the recent rainfall and flood. The Alpuri tehsil residents including affectees from Pir Abad, Dehrai and other areas gathered in the district headquarters Alpuri while carrying banners and placards inscribed with their demands marched to Alpuri Press …

The Sikh minority community in rural areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been struggling for their basic rights including free and quality education, right to vote and right to worship, as their places of worship are far and inaccessible. Harmeet Singh is a resident of Chakesar, Shangla who has been struggling to get justice for his younger brother, who was allegedly murdered by his fiancee …

The students of government primary school Kolalai in Puran tehsil have been awaiting reconstruction of their school building for the last many years. They have demanded of the government to reconstruct the building of the school. Around 400 students either study under the open sky or sit in the torn out tents, provided to the school by Unicef after 2005 …

SHANGLA: The Shangla lady health workers have threatened to boycott from corona vaccination and anti-polio drives for not regularizing them in the budget and not giving service structure promised by secretory health and government representatives with them. According to a statement, an emergency meeting of the local chapter of the association was held with its district president Shahid Khan in …

Haripur: Speakers at a seminar on ecotourism have said Pakistan can cope with ongoing economic crisis by focusing on ecotourism, which is a vast field and is one of the fastest growing sectors in the world. A seminar was arranged by the newly established department of ecotourism at the university of Haripur on Friday. Students, faculty members attended the seminar …