Culture

CHITRAL, Nov 21: Traditional festivals and customs of indigenous Kho people of Chitral are currently being revived by Chitral Association for Mountain Area Tourism (CAMAT) in 25 selected villages of Chitral. In this regard, the celebration of Binisik festival in village Dokandeh Booni, upper Chitral, was one activity of that project through funding assistance from […]

A few of them are discussed below: Atalique Bahader Shah Atalique Bahader Shah belonged to the Roshtay tribe and was born in the Gaht village. He was one of the prominent figures of Mulkhow. He enjoyed the following high-ranking posts of the state during the reign of Shujaul Mulk (1895-1936). I. Atalique of Mulkhow (Deputy

VALPARAI, Nov 18 (AFP): Geetha Thomas owes her life to a text message. The 38-year-old tea plantation worker was able to scramble onto the roof of her home in southern India as a herd of elephants rampaged through her village thanks to an alert on her mobile phone. The warning was part of an initiative

GILGIT, Nov 16: In pursuit of his passion for linguistics, Rehmat Aziz Khan Chitrali, the man behind the first-ever virtual Khowar language keyboard, has achieved yet another remarkable feat — a software that allows typing in some 40 local languages. The 44-year-old is an eminent poet, writer, linguist and researcher renowned not just in his