By Zulfiqar Ali PESHAWAR: A Kalash man from Chitral formally became the first member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from his fast shrinking religious minority, which claims to be the descendants of Greek invader Alexander the Great. Wazirzada represents Kalash, the country’s smallest ethno-religious community that lives in the remote mountains of Hindu Kush range. […]
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CHITRAL: Chairman of Chitral Community Development Network (CDN) and former tehsil nazim of Chitral Sartaj Ahmed Khan on Monday called upon the chief justice of Pakistan and other authorities concerned to take urgent notice of the fast melting glaciers in Chitral and order steps to mitigate its impact on the local people. Speaking at a
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CHITRAL: Members of the district peace committee at a meeting highlighted the problems being faced by the people in the sectors of electricity, drinking and irrigation water supply and others. The participants of the meeting, which was chaired by DC Khurshid Alam, noted that there was no threat to peace in the district but issues
CHITRAL: A student in Shoghor blew up half of his face in the chin after failing in a paper. According to the local police, the student miraculously survived and was rushed to the Aga Khan Hospital in Karachi for treatment. There have been three more cases of suicides (not students) in different parts of Chitral
Report Sirajuddin One more student in Chitral allegedly took his own life on Thursday after receiving his Intermediate exam results. Police sources said that according to initial information, the student had been unable to secure a foreign scholarship and had obtained lower test scores than his two close friends who had been selected for the
