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Farmers in Laspur valley trained on organic certification

LASPUR: Farmers in the valley of Laspur in Upper Chitral were imparted training on organic certification. Organic certification is a certification process for producers of organic food and other organic agricultural products. In general, any business directly involved in food production can be certified, including seed suppliers, farmers, food processors, retailers and restaurants. Organic growers

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The dilemma of Gilgit-Baltistan

The serenity of the place, café owner Ali Ahmed fears, is not going to last very long. The cargo traffic on the narrow KKH is set to pick up upon the completion of the 3,200km trade route connecting Kashgar in China’s landlocked western Xinjiang region to Gwadar port in Pakistan’s Balochistan under the $57bn China-Pakistan

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PTI leader for meritocracy as an alternative to electoral democracy

CHITRAL: PTI leader retired Wg Commander Fardad Ali Shah here stressed the importance of meritocracy as an alternative to electoral democracy. He told a news conference here that the failure of democracy to deliver had caused the country’s breakup and that politicians were to blame for the people’s misery and rampant corruption. “The slogan of

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