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Oath-taking ceremony: Chitrali students assured of help in resolving issues

June 1, 2014

PESHAWAR, June 1: The new cabinet of the Chitral Students Association, headed by President Naushad Jan, took oath here on Sunday. Senator Rubina Khalid was the chief guest, who also administered oath to the cabinet members, while PTI Chitral chief Abdul Lateef presided over the ceremony. Addressing the ceremony, the new president highlighted the issues […]

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PTI women wing chief arriving in Chitral to set party house in order

May 18, 2014

Zulfiqar Ahmad ISLAMABAD, May 18: Dr Munaza Hassan, MNA and the president of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s women wing, is all set to visit Chitral on May 22 on the directives of party chairman Imran Khan. Well-placed sources who declined to be named told ChitralToday that the party’s Chitral chapter stood divided into two groups with each claiming

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Chitrali woman turns tables on PTI leader

May 15, 2014

Zulfiqar Ahmad ISLAMABAD, May 15: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) member National Assembly (MNA) on reserved seat Nafeesa Inayatullah Khattak had to face the music in the hands of a party leader from Chitral when the former tried to block her way to the main stage especially set up for the MPs at the D-Chowk in Islamabad

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Maulana Inam elected JUI Drosh chief

May 2, 2014

DROSH, May 2: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) tehsil Drosh has elected Maulana Inamul Haq as President (Amir) and Qari Fazal Haq as the general secretary. The electoral college for the election was tehsil general council where more than 120 members participated in voting. The elections were supervised by Nusrat Elahi and Mirza Alam who were discharging

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Student buried under avalanche; DC urged to provide excavator to retrieve body

April 24, 2014

CHITRAL, April 24: A young student was buried under an avalanche in the Sonoghur village of upper Chitral on Thursday, residents and rescue officials told ChitralToday on phone from the area. The victim was identified as Akhtar Hussain, son of Sardar Hussain of Sonoghur. Reports said Akhtar had gone to the hillside at Tau area and

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Engineering student commits suicide; woman found dead

April 24, 2014

CHITRAL, April 24: A diploma civil engineering final-year student committed suicide in the Parwak village of upper Chitral. Reports said that Essa Zeshan, 22, son of Essa Ali, shot himself dead over some domestic issues. It has been learnt that the victim had also tried to kill himself in the recent past by jumping into

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Pneumonia kills 15 children in Khot village

March 24, 2014

CHITRAL, March 24: About 15 children are reported to have died of pneumonia in the Khot village of Torkhow tehsil in upper Chitral. District Health Officer (DHO) Chitral Dr Israrullah while talking to this correspondent confirmed that the 15 children had died in February and March of pneumonia. The temperatures in the area hovered around

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Tree plantation: our stress is on planting Russian olive, says activist

March 24, 2014

CHITRAL, March 24: The Chitral Heritage and Environment Protection Society (CHEPS) has started a plantation campaign in Chitral. In this regard, Mr. Rahmat Ali Jaffer Dost, the chairman CHEPS, visited more than 50 schools and colleges and launched the campaigns there. “Two out of these programmes were funded by Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP),” he

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Know your artists — another initiative to explore Chitral

February 20, 2014

CHITRAL, Feb 20: In yet another attempt to explore Chitral and its people, ChitralToday is launching a new series of write-ups on the artists, poets and other literary personalities of the valley. Chitral has always been gifted with curious and able minds having abundance of potentials to excel in all fields of life. When we look at

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Engagement ceremony of Mehtar-e-Chitral held

February 16, 2014

ISLAMABAD, Feb 16: For all the inhabitants of the former princely state of Chitral, there is good news. Shahzada Fatehul Mulk Ali Nasir, the young and recently-crowned Mehtar of Chitral, has been engaged to a daughter of the noble family of the Pakela valley in Hazara on this day of 16th February, 2014, says a

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