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Charsi men in a bind!

BOONI, Feb 1: Perhaps for the first time, an acute shortage of charas has hit the town of Booni but the charsi men are hopeful that it is a temporary crisis and would go away very soon. They said the shortage was neither due to the recent announcement by the new district police officer (DPO) […]

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Too young to shoulder big burdens

S. N. Peerzada BOONI, Dec 30: Sher Baz Khan, nine years old and a student of class 5, left his house in a hamlet called Bojum near Brok village of the Laspur valley to work as a labourer in Booni during the three-month-long winter vacation.  Talking to ChitralToday here, Sher Baz, son of Daulat Khan, said his

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Parents criticise AKES for stopping students from sitting exam

CHITRAL, Dec 25:  Some people from the Yarkhun valley here criticized the Aga Khan  Education Service (AKES) for what they said its injustices with the students from the backward area. Addressing a press conference here, Sahib Noor, the president of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) union council Yarkhun, along with others said his daughter was a class

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