SHANGLA: Students at a seminar in Shangla have demanded equal rights for the female students in higher education and stressed on to end gender-based violence. The seminar was organised with the title of “16 days of activism against gender-based violence” by the United States consulate Alumni Network Pakistan at the University of Swat Shangla campus here on Friday. Students of …

Residents of Alpuri tehsil and its outskirts have resented the unscheduled excessive loadsheding, Criticising the Peshawar Electric Supply Company over their misery, they insisted that the electric supply remained suspended for more than 18 hours. Residents of Alpuri, Lilonai, Kotkay, Koz Alpuri, Mota Khan and other areas on Saturday told reporters that they have been facing severe difficulties for a …

The Shangla deputy commissioner and the education department launched the district education plan 2019-20 on Friday. Adam Smith International and UK’s Department for International Development representatives were also present. Both the organisations are providing technical support to the education department for promoting quality education in the district. DC Shangla Imran Hussain Ranjha presided over the ceremony, while District education officer …

SHANGLA: The criminal model trial court has awarded two times death sentence to a murder of station house officer and assistant sub-inspector, killed in 2010 at Martung area of Shangla. The criminal model trial court Shangla judge Hayat Gul Muhmand has given the verdict in the case on Friday at Camp court Swat. The judge announced the verdict by awarding …

SHANGLA: The Tehsil administration Bisham has sealed illegal cab-services and bus stands for violating the rules imposed by the tehsil municipal authority TMA Bisham. A team of the Tehsil Bisham administration led by Assistant Commissioner Bisham Anwar Ali accompanied by TMO Saqib Sardar, Inspector Exise and Taxation, enforcement officer TMA Ghauoor Khan and police personals, raided the illegal cab-services and …