Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The people of Chitral had voted for Molana Abdul Akbar who contested the 2018 elections on the ticket of the MNA with ‘book, being his election symbol. But he has failed to represent the people and has ‘abused the mandate’ given to him as a candidate of the MMA, not of […]
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The first part of this write-up (from afforestation to deforestation) was about the forests in general and did not narrate the more serious and sensitive sides of the issue. The Chitrali society since very long has used even the very tiny water sources for irrigating their crops and plantations. Planting trees
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig It is a hot topic of today that climate change is affecting every walk of our life. Due to drought or untimely rains, great disasters occur all over the globe and Pakistan is one of the most affected countries. On the one hand, it is a backward, poor and overpopulated country
Prof. Raahmat Karim Baig The piece of land and mountains called Chitral has got two types of geographical features i.e. the forest area of southern Chitral and the rugged and barren mountainsides of upper Chitral. Both have their attractions and constraints or merits and demerits. The forest area of lower Chitral has played a great
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The half parliament has been busily increasing the prices of petroleum products at the command of IMF which is a US tool to entrap ‘banana republics’. This is a snipe on the poor inhabitants of the poor country. Those who had pushed the economy of the country in the last 40
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig ‘Victors usually don’t adopt language of vanquished’. This was fired by a reader of my previous article published in this online newspaper based on his studies of various nations of the world. But remember the Katoor family of Chitral became a victor and defeated the Raees family in more than three
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Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig There was a time when the men of my age people were young government servants but had no training of the job that we did. The rules and regulations were very simple but not conveyed to the staff of each department clearly nor any kind of orientation was given on the
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig In the valleys of Chitral there lived many ethnic groups who came into this part of Hindu Kush via a number of passes in the west, east and north. I am not sure about any such entry from the south but that aspect cannot be rejected outrightly. The Kalash claim to
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig There is a constant demand from the Islamic circles to make our finance system a purely Islamic one, based on the teachings of the Divine Faith. But this has not been possible even after 75 years of the creation of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan though some measures have been taken
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig A high US official has been quoted saying that they want to maintain the old ‘good relations’ with Pakistan in future. This has been reported by print media on the eve of the recent visit of Pakistan’s foreign minister to the US. This is a vague statement and used on
