Prof. Rahamt Karim Baig Some 50 years back when we are in schools the arrival of mountaineering expeditions in Terich valley in summers was an attraction for children of my age. We just came near the campsite and looked at the strange things which they unpacked and packed again according to their need in the
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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