CHITRAL, April 27: Naik Tariq Jalal of Chitral Scouts, a resident of Denin, reached home on Friday – more than eight months after being kidnapped and taken to Afghanistan by the Taliban. He was set free by the militants reportedly after receiving ransom. The family and people of Chitral took a sigh of relief on […]
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BOONI: Chitral Environment and Heritage Protection Society chief Rehmat Ali Jaffar said students can be an agent of change after their teachers. He said Chitral and its environment was very much conducive in terms of its balanced forests. The data dating back to 1930, he added, showed that Chitral had a 35% forest cover which
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CHITRAL: Skill development centres will be set up in different areas of the Kalash valleys, a senior government officer said. He said work on the projects would be launched very soon. In addition, he said, a Polytechnic Institute was being constructed in Chitral an estimated cost of Rs10 million to equip students with modern education.
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Chitral: Two senior professors have been manhandled and misbehaved with by officials of the revenue departments. According to reports, Professor Masood Ahmed of Government Degree College Chitral and his brother, Sardar Ahmed, Principal of Chitral Education College, were visiting the office of Deputy District Officer Revenue, Wasil Khan and Tehsildar Nimatullah for re-measurement of their
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Study reveals trafficking of poor Chitrali girls A study recently conducted by Regional Women Empowerment Project of Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) suggested that the 74 per cent of the marriage of Chitrali girls with down-district people especially in Punjab proved to be fake. It says that the trafficking of women is done for
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