SHANGLA: Shangla police has deployed two lady Muhrars at the major police stations of the district, the public warmly welcomed to the police decision for the deployment of lady Muhrars for the facility of women complainants. District Police Officer, Shangla Malak Ijaz deployed two lady head constables Bi Bi Zar and Ishrat Begum as Madad-e-Muhrar to serve women complainants. DPO, …

SHANGLA: The residents of Faiz Dara Damorai have demanded of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to reconstruct the suspension bridge demolished to be reconstructed. The residents of Faiz Dara told reporters here on Wednesday that due to absence of the suspension bridge they have forced to cross the Kana river by walking in deepwater of the river also take their children …

SHANGLA: A busy suspension wooden bridge over the Indus river connecting Maira of Bisham tehsil Shangla with Jambera area of the Battagram district on the verge of collapse as most of its planks are damaged. The suspension bridge which was first built in 1982 by Kohistan Development Project as both Maira and Jambera masses areas have family relations and frequently …

People in Shangla used water is hazardous to health as a majority of the local people used untested water, supplied to them often gets mixed with sewage due to passage of the pipelines through the drains. Shangla is a mountainous district and 70 percent of its population living in the hilly areas who consume natural springs and streams water, while …

Around 550 girl students in Shangla district quit education halfway every year for various reasons, including inaccessibility, absence of schools, poverty and early marriages, according to sources in the district education department. They said that roughly 22,564 girls between 5 and 9 years of age were out of school in the district. “I wanted to get education and become a …