By Dawood Jan

UPPER DIR: District Health Officer (DHO) Upper Dir Dr Abid Hussain Wednesday said that 75 fresh medical officers (MOs) had been appointed on vacant posts in various hospitals of the Upper Dir district after which shortage of the doctors in Basic Health Units (BHUs) and Rural Health Centers (RHSs) had ended. Talking to journalists in […]

UPPER DIR: The tehsil council of Dir unanimously passed a resolution through which it demanded of starting the Daewoo Service from Dir. Muhammad Irshad presented the resolution regarding launch of the Daewoo service in Dir. He said that he and his other fellows had talked about starting of Daewoo’s service from Dir with the Daewoo […]

UPPER DIR: The tehsil council of Dir unanimously passed a resolution through which it demanded of starting the Daewoo Service from Dir. Muhammad Irshad presented the resolution regarding launch of the Daewoo service in Dir. He said that he and his other fellows had talked about starting of Daewoo’s service from Dir with the Daewoo […]

 UPPER DIR: Interview has been taken of the successful candidates who passed national testing system (NTS) test for appointment as primary school teacher in Upper Dir. Various scrutiny and interview committees have been constituted in the district for taking interviews and checking of the candidates documents. Total of seven venues have been set up for […]

UPPER DIR: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dir Upper Muhammad Usman Mehsud said that forests play an important role in prevention of dangerous diseases like skin cancer, sun stroke and other as it was the collective responsibility of the community to play role in protecting of forests. He was speaking at a ceremony as a chief guest […]

UPPER DIR: Jamaat-e-Islami’s education wing Tanzim-e-Asatiza Pakistan (TAP) Upper Dir chapter has rejected the Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa (KP) government’s decision to introduce the co-education system at the primary level and vowed that the TAP would soon start a moment against the bill. District President of the TAP Upper Dir chapter, Bakhtiar Zamin, said that the PTI […]

UPPER DIR: The district administration of Upper Dir and National Highway Authority (NHA) officials have informed that Lowari Tunnel will be closed for all traffic till Friday, Feb 10 as unprecedented amount of snowfall and avalanches on both sides of the tunnel have caused road blockages. The NHA officials informed the district administrations of Dir […]

UPPER DIR: Routine life paralysed in Upper Dir after receiving a new spell of snowfall and rain as mountainous areas including Lowari top, Kumrat, Thal, Kalkot, DoogDara and others of the district on Saturday have received heavy snowfall while the plain areas received rain after which weather turned into chill. The snowfall in Lowari Top […]

UPPER DIR: More than 150,000 children in district Upper Dir have been administrated polio vaccine during the four day campaign as polio workers and officials of the district administration provided their services in extreme chilly weather in the heavy snowfall covered area. Though there had to postponed polio campaign in two tehsils including Brawal and […]

UPPER DIR: Passengers mostly Chitralis praised the Prime Minister of Nawaz Sharif’s directives to allow passing of traffic via Lowari Tunnel two days in a week as hundreds of passengers vehicles had been passed through Lowari Tunnel on Tuesday. Before that only one day, Friday, a week was fixed to pass traffic through under construction […]