BOONI, Aug 15: The army repaired the Chitral-Mastuj road near Kuragh and opened it for light traffic on Saturday. The road was damaged on July 17, cutting off the whole upper Chitral with the rest of the district. The people of upper Chitral faced immense hardship while reaching their destinations. The passengers, including women and […]
PESHAWAR, July 21: KP Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Tuesday appreciated army’s relief efforts in the flood-devastated Chitral valley. In a press statement issued from Peshawar, the chief minister said that supplying food packets to the affected people in far-off areas of the mountainous valley was not possible for the government and it could have
KP govt announces Rs140 million for flood-hit Chitral Read More »
By Zulfiqar Ahmad ISLAMABAD, July 15: A 25-year-old youth from the Dizg village of Yarkhun valley was on Wednesday put behind bars on the charge of kidnapping a 22-year-old girl from the Khot village of Torkhow. Relatives of the young man told ChitralToday on phone that Mr Amin, son of Roshti Khan, had gone to
CHITRAL: Garam Chashma school lifted a badminton trophy here. A total of 16 teams participated in the event both from upper and lower Chitral with full swing of their interest and support to make the event possible. As there are no resources and lack of an indoor stadium, it was difficult for the organizers and
CHITRAL, June 17: Haji Muhammad Zarqubad, a prominent personality of Chitral who was popularly known as Khanan Duro Subedar, passed away after a protracted illness at his residence in Khanan Dur, Mastuj, on Tuesday evening. He was 80. He is survived by his five sons – Afzal Qubad, Akbar Qubad, Shahzad Qubad, Ajmal Qubad and
The Shandur polo festival is again in the news. This time, the provincial government of KP has been trapped in a mire. After a seminar in Peshawar some irrelevant elements from Peshawar and Gilgit have changed the dates for the Shandur festival. The new schedule is 18 to 20th August 2015. In the month of
BREP, April 28, 2015: A young man died after falling from a jeep in the Brep village early on Tuesday morning. The name of the deceased could not be ascertained but he was a resident of the Pover village in Yarkhun. Locals told ChitralToday that the youth was travelling atop the jeep loaded with fodder
PESHAWAR, April 7: The Tourism Corporation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (TCKP) is arranging a one-day seminar in the provincial capital in connection with the upcoming Shandur Polo Festival. According to organisers, the seminar to be held on April 13 will engage stakeholders for organising the festival in a befitting manner and promote peace and tourism in the
Shandur festival to bring people of KP, GB closer, says official Read More »
ISLSMABAD, March 22: As many as 30 jawans of Chitral Scouts will participate in the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on Monday morning. The Chitral Scouts personnel reached the federal capital over a month ago to take part in the training for the parade. They went for the final rehearsal on March 21. The
30 Chitralis participating in Pakistan Day parade Read More »
March 13, 2015: The problem is, his neighbors did the same thing. Now, in the Gobor valley where Shah lives, 60 percent of people grow potatoes, and as a result potato prices are plunging, seed is getting ever more costly and nobody’s quite sure how to store or get to market the area’s huge harvest.
