Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig General Pervez Musharraf has commended his soul to Allah Almighty after a long illness. May his soul rest in peace! We Chitralis are beholden to him for his courageous initiative to open a tunnel under Lawari Pass which had been the hardest hindrance in the path for all the inhabitants of […]
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig I have just come back from a trip to Lahore and would like to share my travel experience with the travelling public i.e. all the public who travels to down and up country in winters with families, including very small babies. The coasters, flying coaches and buses start from Chitral in
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig Climate change is a universal phenomenon and it has always changed. Disasters due to storms in the oceans have occurred in scores and tsunamis have depopulated whole regions causing losses amounting to millions – both humans and wildlife. Colossal floods have also destroyed regions, killing millions of people. Rains and avalanches
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The time factor is very important and for many weeks the country especially KP has been a target of terrorist activities right in the broad daylight despite the patrolling parties and Police chowkis. This type of incessant attacks makes it clear that the whole security system has got many drawbacks and
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The area which is known as Chitral irrespective of the fact that locally the main town is called Chitral (Chhetrar) has now better access to better education facilities compared to the bygone days but the outlying areas have not been given due attention. Since the hamlets of the far away areas
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig Education in the states of Dir, Swat and Chitral has faced different attitude from the rulers. In Swat, they enjoyed better access to bigger cities and were more influenced than Chitral or Dir. In Chitral, primary schools had been opened in a number of villages at the time of Shujaul Mulk
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig People who have lived in the mountainous regions of KP and GB have now started migrating to cities on various grounds. The volume of this trend is wider and is creating problems both in the cities as well as in the areas/valleys vacated by them. It is regarded a right step
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The tribes and families living in Chitral have seen quite a good number of ups and downs in the past – both near and distant past. Besides politics-based vicissitudes, our forefathers had their particular circle of activities inside the clan, tribe, community and the relationship network that spread from valley to
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig Pakistan has been a target from the very beginning as a Muslim state – demanded and created in the name of Islam and Islam has been an eyesore for the rest of the religions of the world. The Jews dislike it from the time of its emergence. The Christians have disliked
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig After 75 years of independence the economy of the country has gradually gone down to abysmal depths and the load of loans on the nation was never as high as it is now. Why this downward journey? The answer may be known to Economists but as an ordinary man and a
