CHITRAL: Former MPA Salim Khan has condemned misbehaviour by Dir Scouts with MNA Molana Abdul Akbar Chitrali. In a statement, Mr Khan, who is also an ex-provincial minister, said the treatment meted out to the elected representative of the 600,000 people of Chitral by the personnel of the Dir Scouts is condemnable. Molana Chitrali is […]
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By Zahiruddin (photo: GH Farooqui) CHITRAL: Patience, perseverance and discipline, thy name is Kalash in Birir valley, who vigorously restrain themselves for two months from eating even a grain of grape or a walnut, which is tabooed for them in line with their dogma despite. It\’s the Poo\’n day on Monday when one of the
AYUN: Schoolchildren and teachers from Govt Higher Secondary School Ayun and people from civil society participated in a cleanliness drive held under the Prime Minister\’s Clean and Green Pakistan programme. The campaign was arranged by Ayun and Valleys Development Programme. The participants picked garbage from roadsides and cleaned different areas of Ayun and vowed to
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CHITRAL: Peasant councillor Rahmat Ilahi has demanded ban on premature harvest of chalghuza as detaching of cones from branches of trees destroyed the buds. Talking to mediapersons here on Monday, he said the standard process of harvesting the chalghuza pine nuts was to wait for its ripening within the cones, after which it burst into
By Afzal Ali Shigri The situation is alarming; without adequate water storage, Pakistan will face a serious water emergency by 2025. Dismayed by the nation’s water crisis and inaction by the executive, the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) autonomously launched a campaign to collect funds for the construction of the Diamer-Bhasha dam along the Indus
