This refers to a press conference by a citizen, Mr. Ahasan in Chitral in which he spoke about deforestation in Chitral. Whatever facts he disclosed are ground realities and the timber mafia has started ruthless cutting of greeen deodar in the forest of Shishi Koh and other forest areas. Mr. Ahasan belongs to Shishi Koh valley where the cutting of the gree trees is in progress and he is eyewitness to the who ...

Sir, The people of Chitral welcome you as the new and all powerful administrative officer of the district. You can do something good for the people of the area if you take a little bit interest in the welfare and development of citizens. In the winter season, the unfortunate people of Chitral are badly humiliated at the hands of security officials in Lowari Tunnel due to irrational and inconvenient timing s ...

FORMER president Pervez Musharraf resigned from the presidency on Aug 18, 2008. He had taken over on Oct 12, 1999, a total period of nine years and six days and not 10 years as people are told falsely by his opponents. On Aug 18, 2008, he was given a guard of honour by Pakistan’s three armed forces. He returned to his homeland on March 24. Since then he has been a victim of witch-hunt by some people who are ...

With the supervision of district government, proper volunteer-based security committees are needed to be organised throughout the villages of Chitral. These groups of personnel of own respective villages will keep their vicinity clean of outer as well as domestic troublemakers. These civil defence-based organisations will also help best in natural disasters like flooding, earthquake and avalanche etc. These ...

CHITRAL, April 5: Chitral is the largest district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and greatly impacts the environment in the country due to its geographical location. The Chitral river, known in rest of the country as the Kabul river, originates from the north of Chitral and contributes to meeting water requirements in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as well as in other regions. Owing to the greenery and peaceful environment, la ...

ISLAMABAD, March 17: KPK consists of 20 settled districts and the total number of seats in the provincial legislative assembly is 124. And the province's share in the lower and upper houses is 43 and 23 respectively. Chitral is an administrative unit of Pakistan which independently and unconditionally merged with Pakistan following the decision of the then ruler of Chitral H.H. Muzaffar-ul-Mulk in 1947 beco ...

In our conservative society, giving education, especially to females, has always been a dilemma. Female students are very sensitive regarding their rights which they can’t get but have to snatch. Giving education to its youth, especially the females, has always been the mandate of the government of the time but here in Chitral it is quite different. A few years back, Shaheed Benazir University Shiringel aff ...

By Hakim Dad Khan DROSH (CHITRAL), Jan 7: It is to draw the attention of the authorities concerned that due to the dictatorial attitude of vice chancellor of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University(SBBU) Sheringal, Dir, a precious academic year of MEd students was wasted. The 360 students remained without admission and were deprived of the professional degree in education. According to the rules, SBBU should have ...

THIS refers to the NBP branch in Chitral. The bank’s branch had its own double-story building on purchased land. In November 2011, the provincial government acquired the building for a bypass road on the understanding that the government will acquire alternative land for the bank within three months. After a lapse of one year, no alternative land was acquired. In November 2012 the NBP was forcibly vacated. ...

THIS is apropos of Yasmin Lari’s letter ‘Chitral Mosque: expert view’ (Dec 1). She has stated that upon the request of the Chief Secretary, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, she had “agreed to provide guidance and advice on an honorary basis in order to save the historic structure”. She further wrote that it was “wholly contemptible and shameful act to wilfully damage the heritage structure” and urged “the KP government ...