Chitral News

Mehtar’s withdrawal of ban: Duck hunters pose threat to air passengers

CHITRAL, March 3: The construction of artificial ponds and lakes in the riverbed adjacent to Chitral Airport by hunters to lure migratory ducks goes unnoticed which has posed potential threat to the incoming and outgoing flights.  Last year, on October 19,  Shahzada Fatehul Mulk Ali Nasir, the Mehtar of Chitral and the owner of the

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Chitral’s ex-district nazim arrested in explosives theft case

Zulfiqar Ahmad CHITRAL, Feb 25: Former district nazim (mayor) of Chitral Maghfirat Shah was arrested in the explosives theft case in Chitral on Monday. Sources told chitraltoday.net that a local court gave the former nazim belonging to the Jamaat-i-Islami party to the Koghuzi police on a three-day physical remand. He was arrested from the premises

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Chitral\’s environment issues taken up with Senate body

ISLAMABAD: Chitral\’s environmental issues were here taken up with a Senate committee civil society activists. A group briefed the Senate Committee on Climate Change, which is headed by Senator Dr. Saeeda Iqbal, about the environmental issues faced by Chitral with special focus on deforestation of local forest and recent illegal shooting of Markhor in conservancy

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