CHITRAL: Civil society and social activists on Saturday strongly condemned alleged attack by workers of a contractor of the Chitral-Mastuj road project on journalist Gul Hamaad Farooqui. Speaking at a press conference here along with the journalist, they said people of Chitral have been complaining against Umar Jan and Co. for highly poor quality work
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CHITRAL (APP): A non-governmental organization, Helping Hand, on Thursday arranged a seminar, “Youth for a cooler planet” at a hotel in Chitral. Hamid Ahmad Mir, an environment expert, spoke about how smoking, pollution and carbonyl gases were changing the planet and how climate change was affecting it. According to experts, abrupt floods brought on by
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CHITRAL: Police have registered a first information report (FIR) against three laborers working on the under-construction Chitral-Booni road on the charge of physically assaulting and threatening senior journalist Gul Hamaad Farooqui. However, no further action has been initiated against the nominated persons. According to the FIR, Faqooqui was returning home at Shahmiran Deh in Chitral
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BOONI: A 9th class student from the remote village of Upper Chitral topped a nation-wise speech contest in Urdu language held in Peshawar in connection with a Seeratun Nabi conference. Assistant District Education Officer Upper Chitral Rehmat Ali Khan told ChitralToday that Aliur Rehman, of the Govt High School Verkhop, had earlier held first position
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Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The word ‘Hindu Kush’ is neither Khowar nor English or Kalasha but it was coined and brought to this region from Dari – a variant of Persian – spoken in some states of Central Asia such as Uzbekistan, Tajikstan and parts of north Afghanistan. The chain of the sierras of Hindu
