CHITRAL: Residents of Kalash valley of Rumbur have demanded of the provincial government to lift ban on transportation of wood harvested from their forest to the timber depot at Chakdara. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, the office-bearers of the local joint forest management committee (JFMC), Mohammad Yaqub, Saifullah Jan, Shahzada Khan, Jamati Khan […]
SKARDU, June 25: Deputy Commissioner Skardu Raja Fazal Khalique was beaten up by villagers in the Chomik area yesterday in the absence of police officials. According to details printed in the regional press, the DC had gone to the construction site of a mosque in Chomik over which there is a dispute. The DC, reportedly,
TIMARGARAH, June 23: Forest owners and members of the defunct joint forest management committees (JFMCs) from different valleys of Chitral gathered at Timargarah on Monday and threatened the KP government to lift the ban on movement of timber till July 14 otherwise they would start protest demonstrations. They were also joined by forest owners and
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Parsan is a beautiful valley of tehsil Garam Chashma with a population of 350 households. It is about 45 kilometers away from the Chitral town. But this scenic area has been withering away due to water logging for many years. The unusual change in the climate has increased the melting of glaciers in the region
PESHAWAR, May 29: The district of Chitral was on Thursday included in the prime minister’s fee reimbursement scheme for the PhD and MPhil students. During the budget speech 2013-14, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar announced that under the prime minister’s fee reimbursement scheme, Rs1.2 billion had been set aside to reimburse the fees of 30,000 deserving
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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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PESHAWAR, May 17: A delegation of the Chitral Students Association, headed by its newly-elected President Naushad Jan, met Senator Robina Khalid and discussed with her various challenges faced by the Chitrali students enrolled in various institutions of Peshawar. In the meeting, the delegation presented the senator with written proposals to resolve their issues. The proposals
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It gives me immense pleasure to have the fourth (October to December 2013) issue of Khowar Nama in hand. With its publication, the Mother Tongue Institute for Education and Research (MIER) has succeeded in bringing out all the numbers/issues of 2013. Khowar Nama, a quarterly periodical aimed at promoting Khowar prose, is indeed the result of the
Report GH Farooqui CHITRAL, May 10: Scores of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chitral workers left for Islamabad to participate in the protest rally to be held by the party in Islamabad on Sunday. Abdul Lateef, the president of PTI Chitral, was leading the workers party workers. Earlier, the PTI workers gathered at the PIA square holding
CHITRAL, May 3: The hunger strike organized by the residents of Ayun village was called off on Saturday after successful negotiations with a jirga on behalf of the government. The hunger strikers marched to the Chitral Press Club from the hunger strike camp established at Secretariat Road on Saturday evening along with the members of
