Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The northern part of Pakistan is a land of mountains. Here the three famous mountain chains occupy the whole area with numerous cultural communities. Most of these are agro-based identities but there is a good segment with pastoral pursuits such as the Gujar and the nomadic tribes who head to the […]
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig In the article published in the online papers only two days back, the Buni Zom group of peaks had been discussed. The interested persons in the field of adventure tourism may be expecting to know some more information about the peaks in the Hindu Raj section as the main peaks of
Prof. Rahmat Kaarim Baig The Hindu Kush mountain range spans a distance of 800 km in a shape like a sword that begins in the south of Pamir, including Chapursan valley in the east, right to Afghanistan-Iran border with a number of ramifications to the north and south. Most of the peaks in this range
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig Love of sports has been a widespread craze all over Chitral especially among the Khowar speaking population and it runs even in winters when there is no snow and this aspect of our culture has been observed and criticized by our neighbours as well as foreigners. Many sport lovers have turned
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The numerous ethnic groups of Chitral have arrived here from different directions and have occupied arable plots and thus lived on subsistence farming. The supply of water for irrigation of their plots from distant streams and springs demanded unity among these ethnic groups to use the meager water resources wisely but
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig For KP government: how to strive for self-sufficiency? Our province in the north of the country stands at a very important location with huge resources at its disposal and any sane ruling party can utilize its numerous resources for making the province self –sufficient- an exporter instead of importer. These resources
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The first and very short part of this series of articles as an introduction was published with a panoramic view of upper Roshgol valley peaks and the upper Rosh Gol Glacier three weeks ago. In this 2nd part we shall give a brief description of Udren valley that is rarely visited
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig This chain of mountains is considered to be about 800km long that touches the southern tip of Pamir in the east and the eastern province of Iran in the west with its highest section lying within the borders of Chitral and also touching Wakhan corridor. There are no easy passes between
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig Since 1947, this country has passed through various phases. The very first phase was over with the sad demise of Quaid-e-Azam and the powers came to the hands of the members of the political team after the vaptain. The members of this team were not devout and lacked the zeal of
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The word ‘Munshi’ has come from Persian which was used for a literate man who could read and write so such a man was needed by any ruler of any state to keep records of the state and this side of state business was regarded an important duty. Literacy was imparted
