By Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig It is with reference to a news item published in media about tourist spots in Chitral which has got the highly dense conglomeration of high mountains, glaciers, unexplored valleys and cwms. The new spots need access roads of standard quality to attract domestic tourists but the high peaks and glaciers
DIZG (UPPER CHITRAL): The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) has made the residents of Dizg more vulnerable to flash floods by not only leaving a protection wall along Dizg Gol incomplete but also raising a 13-foot-high embankment on the other side of the stream to protect another village. Protection wall on Khruzg side. Local
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PESHAWAR: An in-charge of government grain godown in Chitral arrested in a wheat embezzlement case has deposited Rs1.5 million in the court of special judge anti-corruption, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. On the request of the accused, Muhammad Zaman, the judge anti-corruption gave two days time to the accused to submit the remaining amount of Rs2 million in
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NEW YORK: MPA Wazirzada Kalash has called for allocating special seats for indigenous communities in the law and policy-making institutions such as parliaments “without considering their number,” ARY News reported. Speaking at the 18th session of United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), he Mr said that he strongly believed that adoption and preservation
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CHITRAL: The district council witnessed a heated debate on the land settlement process on the second day of its session here on Friday. Speakers at the session, chaired by convener Maulana Abdul Shakoor, expressed fears that they were being divested of the pastures, meadows and riverbeds attached to the villages as a result of settlement
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