Muhammad Huzaifa The story of a Macedonian conqueror’s wayward expedition to conquer the known world was given a sort of rebirth when the British conquered the Indus region. The British, who in the Macedonian’s success sought a mirror of their own invasions of the Indian Subcontinent, wrote a great deal analyzing and explaining the “Indian […]
CHITRAL: Chilim Jusht spring festival of Kalash people concluded in Bumburate valley on Saturday with the ritual dance by young men and women for five days but without tourists from outside due to the coronavirus pandemic. This year round the Chilim Jusht festival was sombre due to coronavirus pandemic as non-locals and tourists were not
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CHITRAL: Chilim Jusht spring festival is in progress in all the three valleys of Bumburate, Birir and Rumbur amid merrymaking, including open door ritual of dancing of men and women at the dancing place called Jastakhan. Said Gul of Bumburate said the major event of the day was Chhirpeyak ritual which was being performed in
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Wazir Ali Shah With the current pandemic, our life has been deferred between hope and disparity. A race to clinch the flagship of discovering the nature fall asleep to conquer the new horizon. The human capability has almost failed to get relief from this minor test of Almighty God. The head of states are in
CHITRAL: The five-day Kalash spring festival of Chilim Jusht will be a low key event this year in the wake of coronavirus pandemic. The festival is scheduled to start from May 12 in the three valleys of Bumburate, Birir and Rumbur. The Kalash spring festival heralds the arrival of the spring season in the valley
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ISLAMABAD: Dawood Shah, a member of the Kalash community of Chitral, has been recommended for inclusion as member in the National Commission on Minorities (NCM). Dawood Shah, in his early 40s, belongs to Rumbur and holds a BA degree. Locals told ChitralToday that Mr Shah is well versed on the religious and cultural matters of
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KARACHI: In an unusual occurrence, a team of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Wildlife Department and the WWF-Pakistan filmed a Himalayan lynx hunting a markhor on the steep rocky cliffs of Chitral. This is for the first time that the nocturnal hunter and highly elusive animal has been filmed in the area. https://www.facebook.com/ChitralToday/videos/682332085918085/?t=7 The lynx is known
تحریر: یاسمین الہی قاضی بچھڑا کچھ اس ادا سے کہ رت ہی بدل گئی اک شخص سارے شہر کو ویران کر گیا کل نفس ذائقۃ الموت (ہر ذی روح کو موت کا مزہ چکھنا ہے) اے اللہ بے شک میں لوٹ کر تیری ہی طر ف آنا ہے۔ دنیا کی رنگینیوں میں کھو کر اکثر
By Fateh-ul-Mulk Ali Nasir Prior to Aman-ul-Mulk’s ascension to the throne of Chitral in 1858 the fortunes of this deep valley set amongst the heights of the Hindu Kush were very different. Chitral has long had a tradition of kingship, and indeed the early signs of nationhood, since at least the days of the Chinese
CHITRAL: On the international mother languages day held on Feb 21, speakers at an event in Peshawar asked the government to expedite work on the mother tongue curriculum policy for which the provincial assembly had passed a bill in 2012. Meanwhile, speakers at a function arranged in Chitral also stressed the need to take steps
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