Zar Alam Khan ISLAMABAD: While billions of rupees have been spent on the tsunami afforestation programme, the government’s own policy of cutting trees for commercial use is helping the timber mafia in denuding Chitral of its green forest cover, according to official documents. Under the policy, the trees that are damaged due to strong winds […]
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YARKHUN: While past and present governments never tired of claiming to have worked for the promotion of women education, there is not a single school for girls in the public sector in upper part of Yarkhun valley in the 21st century. Officials in the education department of Upper Chitral confirmed to ChitralToday that dozens of
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Zulfiqar Ahmad ISLAMABAD: In a bizarre incident of its kind in Chitral’s Madaklasht valley, dozens of people were taken hostage and kidnapped by groups of local people and settlers over a dispute pertaining to a land dispute and utilization of a stream for irrigation purposes. Talking to ChitralToday, Sher Ajab Khan, a retired scholar of
PESHAWAR: An accountability court here on Friday acquitted five persons of the charge of embezzling Rs76 million of the forest royalty funds in Chitral. Judge Naveed Ahmad Khan ruled that as per the evidence available the accused, including ex-councillor Prince Khalid Pervez, ex-sub-divisional forest officer Gulzarur Rehman and three private persons namely Noor Shahideen, Rehmat
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CHITRAL, Feb 27, 2021: An injured snow leopard was rescued from a nearby mountain by people of Rabat village of Arkari valley on Friday, locals told ChitralToday. The injured wild cat, about four to five years old, had fallen from the mountain and was lying injured when the villagers reached to it. The villagers kept
Gul Hamaad Farooqi CHITRAL: Daimi Begum, a 75-year-old shopkeeper near Bashalini in Karakar village of Kalash valley, used to run a big shop at the local Chowk (roundabout) before the COVID-19 lockdown started in March 2020. However, her business has now shrunk to a small room. She says the pandemic not only damaged her business
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Sirajuddin In the Lot Oveer honour killing case, police have arrested two brothers and a cousin of the girl who was murdered along with a young man for honour in May this year. District Police Officer (DPO) Upper Chitral Zulfiqar Ahmed Tanoli confirmed the arrests to ChitralToday on phone from Booni. The DPO said suspects
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CHITRAL: At the first meeting of the newly-formed Falah-e-Insaniyat Tanzeem at Baroom village of Lot Oveer, the participants expressed concerns over an announcement made by a contractor to transfer the fund for construction of a bridge in Bagh. The matter was raised by youth of the area during the meeting of the Tanzeem chaired by
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Javed Khan BOONI: After a protest demonstration by traders, the district administration on Monday tightened the implementation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) prepared by the government to contain the spread of COVID-19. Addressing a gathering of traders at Booni Chowk on Saturday, traders association president Muhammad Shafi had warned the district administration and the police
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BOONI: One year after the already broken down roads were cut and dug to lay optic fiber lines in Mastuj, Warijun and Shagram, the department concerned has failed to make the facility functional in these areas of Upper Chitral. While the public is suffering due to the broken roads, after the COVID-19 pandemic and closure
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