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Pakistan: Battagram and Swat residents struggle with power outages, disrup
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Traders, vendors, and labourers reliant on electricity for their businesses have seen their livelihoods impacted. The effects of these power cuts are not confined to businesses; they are also disrupting the daily routines of local residents, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: Battagram, Swat residents hit hard by long power cuts
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Power cuts lasting up to 20 hours a day are severely impacting businesses and daily life in Battagram and Swat, with residents and traders calling for urgent intervention.
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Pakistan: Residents of Battagram, KP block Karakoram Highway amid crackdow
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Amid protests raging across the country over inflated electricity bills, the residents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Battagram on Saturday blocked a stretch of the Karakoram Highway near the Khatm-i-Nabuwat Chowk even as authorities cracked down on power theft, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: 6 dead, 5 injured after passenger van falls off bridge in Manseh
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
As many as six people, including two women died and five were injured after a passenger van fell off a bridge while travelling on the route connecting the Thakot area of Battagram to Hazara Motorway in Pakistan’s Mansehra, according to a Rescue 1122 official, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan cable car mishap: Ordeal ends with all passengers, mostly childre
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Pakistani rescuers saved all the passengers, including 7 children and one man, after their cable was stranded high since early Tuesday morning in Allai tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Battagram, ending an ordeal lasting more than 14 hours.
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Pakistan mishap: 5 children rescued from hanging cable car, efforts underw
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Dawn cited state broadcaster PTV News as reporting that the aerial operation had been “called off” due to “night and weather conditions” but rescue efforts through “alternative means” were ongoing.
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Pakistan: Nine people killed in rain-related incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkh
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) in its latest report said nine people had died over the last 24 hours, including two in Swat, two in Battagram, four in Mansehra and one in Buner.
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Pakistan: Teacher arrested over disrespectful social media posts on Islam
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
This is an example of enforcement of Article 298-A of the Pakistani Criminal Code which prohibits any kind of disrespect against the wives of Prophet Muhammad. Compared to provisions on blasphemy, which include the death penalty as punishment to those who offend the Prophet, Ar
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Pakistan: Passengers left stranded as parts of Karakoram Highway in Khyber
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Heavy monsoon rains, coupled with strong winds, lashed across areas such as Shangla's Bisham tehsil and Hazara's Kohistan, Battagram, and Torghar districts. The rains caused streams and rivers to overflow, bringing rubble along with them. This led to blockades and road closures, cutting off
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Three children injured after two earthquakes strike parts of Pakistan
Updated : 3 years ago IST
According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), the first earthquake of magnitude 6.0 with its epicentre being the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border region, struck at 10:50 am, at a depth of 223 km.
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Pakistan: Ex-security personnel arrested over blasphemy in KP
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], September 2 (ANI): Amid rising cases of blasphemy in Pakistan, one security personnel was sent to judicial remand in Battagram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the charges of making anti-Islamic remarks during an altercation with employees of the district poli
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Three among 57 injured students critical as quake hits Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Sept. 5 (ANI): At least 57 school students were injured when panic ensued in classrooms after a 4.7-magnitude earthquake hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Battagram district in Pakistan on Monday.
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