Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig Terich valley lies in Upper Chitral, very close to the high Hindu Kush chain of mountains and received 16 days of continuous rains that annihilated all kind of food stuff this year. Since the altitude is more than 8000 feet so by that time all the crops were ripe and ready […]
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The people of a conglomeration of narrow valleys of Chitral are hemmed in by high sierras of Eastern Hindu Kush, living in dozens of valleys and each of the valleys has got a river from the glaciers of the vast mountain system. There are very poorly built and light weight bridges
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The ongoing cold war between our political leadership is a matter of shame for the whole country. The flood devastation and its aftershocks are alarming but the tug of war OR the cold war is very lamentable. The alliance of the anti-Imran group is in a state of dilemma. They could
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig A national Urdu daily has reported in its issue dated 10th September quoting a retired general that Pakistan should give a port to the US. The report says that he was talking to a media house and suggested to hand over one of our ports to that country to appease it
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig A national English newspaper reported about Gorbachev’s death in the Central Medical Centre in Moscow a few days back and then gave him the credit of the dismembering Soviet Union during his tenure and applauded him for his achievements. The writer of the article has eulogized him for his disservices to
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig Chitral is a landlocked country of a very peculiar location with borders with Afghanistan from Arandu to Begusht and this section of our border is porous but onward the sierras rise to glaciated peaks to 6,000m and then to 7,000m peaks exactly on the Pak Afghan border up to Kankhun pass.
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig We are now celebrating our 75th Independence Day and recall the long spell of throes that followed the partition of the Indian subcontinent. But after 75 years, we are still economically and politically unstable. The country has been under dictators for more years owing to the incompetency and dishonesty of the
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig Generally spoken as climate change, the word has already become known to the public all over the world. The real cause of climate change is global warming due to greenhouse gases. Because of modern technology the overuse of fossil fuel and coal in industries, which is very high in advanced countries
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig States either larger or smaller all over the world have depended on police system which mostly comprised of secret police to monitor the activities of all the individuals especially malcontents, members of the ruling families, aristocrats, the clergy etc. Chitral has been a state of a small size but had developed
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The efforts made by the KP government to promote tourism have received much publicity than the work on the ground. A small city like Chitral does have a local government and is under the deputy commissioner but when you enter the town area, from a tourist point of view, it does
