Col (r) Ikram Ullah Khan Amid dark clouds of uncertainty enveloping Ukraine\’s horizon, Russia has kept the US and its NATO allies on tenterhooks as to its future intentions to invade Ukraine which it claims has remained part of the erstwhile USSR Empire till 1991. Russian claim of Ukraine with already weak and compromised sovereignty
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Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig One day, about two years ago, I was sitting inside my living room though it was April and the sun was already up. It was about 9’o clock. I heard someone running into the veranda of my house and crash opened the door. He was the second son of my nephew.
Gul Hamaad Farooqi CHITRAL: The death of a 92-year-year-old Kalash woman of Krakar village was celebrated by the community for two full days till her burial a few days ago. Sherkani was mother of a well-known personality of Kalash tribe, Abdul Khaliq Kalash. The body of the deceased was kept at the Jastkan, a religious place
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A.M. Khan International Mother Language Day is celebrated every year to reiterate the global commitment that languages and multiculturalism can advance inclusion and diversity, and help leaving no one behind. This year’s celebration, in Chitral, must be a rethink on the meaning of the notion: mother tongue, is translated in patrilineal tradition. Bifurcated into
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(An open letter to the chief minister KP) Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig A high level meeting was held with CM in the chair at Peshawar to discuss the envisaged ‘Peshawar Model Town’ costing billions of rupees. The people in Peshawar are well off. Most of them own many houses and others have one each and
