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First Kalash MPA vows to fight for rights of minorities

By Zulfiqar Ali PESHAWAR: A Kalash man from Chitral formally became the first member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from his fast shrinking religious minority, which claims to be the descendants of Greek invader Alexander the Great. Wazirzada represents Kalash, the country’s smallest ethno-religious community that lives in the remote mountains of Hindu Kush range.

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Political circus

By Shahid Zafar (Mulkhow) Benjamin Franklin, a well-known physicist, writer and reputed politician of his time once said that democracy is a balloon filled with air and thrown into the air purposefully, to attract the attention of the masses. The balloon hovers above for five years and constantly attracts their attention and keeps them busy

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Reckoning time in Chitral

Garam Chashma Diary By Islamuddin The elections of 2018 are unique in the sense that these were fought on a single item agenda -corruption. Predictably, the political alignments opposing corruption and committed to recover the stolen money won the elections. Parties known for encouraging corruption were voted out. It is unfortunate that politics being a

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