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Broghil festival will be included in calendar events: commissioner

September 5, 2023

CHITRAL: The three-day Broghil festival concluded at an altitude of 13,500 feet in Upper Chitral district on Monday. The district administration had organised the festival, which featured games of yak, horse and donkey polo, Buzkashi, horse and yak races, horse and cattle show, exhibition of cuisine and handicraft of Wakhi culture and Wakhi musical concerts. […]

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Chickenpox cases also emerge in Booni and Brep

September 4, 2023

CHITRAL: After Laspur valley, the contagious disease of chickenpox has spread to two more villages Brep in Yarkhoon valley and Booni town in Upper Chitral while four more children have shown the symptoms of the illness in Harchin village of Laspur. The district coordinator of expanded programme on immunisation (EPI), Dr Wali Khan, said during

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Careless road blasting by NHA damages houses; one injured

September 4, 2023

Fakhr-e-Alam BOONI: At least one person was injured and multiple houses were damaged when large pieces of rocks showered on houses in Booni Lasht village from blasting of a mountain by National Highway Authority across the river during the construction of Chitral-Mastuj road. Panic gripped the residents of Booni Lasht after the blasting was carried

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Another dead body recovered from Chitral river

September 3, 2023

CHITRAL: Another dead body has been recovered from River Chitral by Rescue 1122, Lower Chitral. The emergency service said on Sunday that its staff recovered the dead body of an unidentified woman from the river at Chilim Lasht area of Ayun. The body has been shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital for identification and legal

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Joint search operation conducted in Drosh subdivision

September 2, 2023

CHITRAL: Under the prevailing security situation in the country, a joint search and strike operation was conducted in the Drosh subdivision of Lower Chitral, police said on Saturday. According to a spokesman, the police, Chitral Scouts, Special Branch, Counter-Terrorism Department and the Elite Force took part in the search operation carried out in the Ursoon,

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