CHITRAL: Residents of Banjal area of Ursun valley in Lower Chitral have demanded that leaseholders should be issued no-objection certificates (NOCs for exploration of minerals in their area. Addressing a press conference here, the Molana Sami Ullah, Muhammad Hakim, Muhammad Ghafoor and Abdus Samad said exploitation of the mineral resources would bring prosperity and development […]
M. Irshadullah Khan Residents of Booni in Upper Chitral held a meeting on Monday and condemned the government for the persistent power crisis that has plagued the area for years. The meeting convened by Tehreek Huqooq-e-Awam unanimously passed a resolution demanding immediate relief from the crippling power outages. Tehreek President Mukhtar Ahmed, General Sectary Pervez
CHITRAL: Another suicide case has turned out to be a cold-blooded murder in the jurisdiction of Drosh police. The police have arrested three persons on the charge of murdering a man and portraying it as a suicide. Two other suspects are also being probed in the case, a police spokesman told ChitralToday. He said that
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CHITRAL: The three-day Uchhal festival will start in the Kalash valleys of Bumburate, Birir and Rumbur on August 20, marking harvest and threshing of wheat crop in the valleys. As a ritual of the festival, the finest quality cheese and a few grains of wheat were put at the altar of a deity in each
CHITRAL: After a short respite of a week, different valleys in Chitral were devastated by flash floods after torrential rains in Yarkhoon valley of Upper Chitral and Lot Koh valley of Lower Chitral. A resident of Yarkhoon, Syed Nazir Shah, said that Dubarger, Zhupu, Wasum and Deosar villages in upper Yarkhoon were the worst hit.
