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Local councilor Inayatullah and a social worker Sarawat Shah told ChitralToday that the building of the primary school was built through funds provided by a Greek volunteer, Authonasie. But the flash floods in 2010 washed away the building. Despite repeated requests by the local people, the education department Chitral never bothered to reconstruct the building.

Photo: Jahan Zeb[/caption] The quake-hit people alleged mass irregularities in the distribution of compensation cheuqes by the district administration. They also alleged that the officials concerned deliberately dropped the names of deserving people from the compensation list and facilitated their own blue-eyed boys. Talking to the protestors, Salahuddin Tofan, Hasan Muhammad, Haji Muhtaram Shah and

Photo by GH Fraooqui[/caption] Among these villages are Brep, Istach, Dizg, Khruzg, Marting, Phashk, Bang, Birzoz etc. where people are enjoying round-the-clock cheap electricity. With this, purchase of appliances like fridges, deep freezers, irons, and fans has increased and these appliances are becoming a necessity in people’s life. The reason again is availability of cheap

Addressing the gathering, local leaders of Tehreek Huqooq Awam upper Chitral regretted that the government departments were showing lethargy and callousness towards the suffering of the people affected by the natural disasters. They said despite the passage of five months, work on the reconstruction of the damaged Reshun powerhouses could not be started due to

DROSH: People affected by the earthquake of this year have continued their protest sit-in here. The protesters are making speeches, assailing the local administration and the provincial government for depriving them of the monetary assistance provided by the federal government. The participants of the sit-in were also chanting slogans against the authorities concerned of the

The team was led by UN resident coordinator Neil Buhne and consisted of George Khoury, Mar-Andre Franche and Dr Alexandra De Sausa. CEO Aga Khan Foundation Chitral Akhtar Iqbal and Nusrat Nasab of Focus Humanitarian Organization also accompanied them. The team met the elected representatives and notables of the valley. Village council nazim Muhammad Rafi

ISLAMABAD: Climate change experts, representative of ministry of climate change, researchers, scholars, media and community representatives shared their papers and experiences on impacts of climate change adaptation at a seminar here. The experts agreed to have practical implementation of climate change policy where emphasis on ensuring actions to minimize the occurrence of climate-led disasters, training

In upper Chitral, about 90% wheat crop is harvested and threshed from 15th July to the end of August every year. If these two months remain dry, the poor farmers can get the fruit of their tough labour. This year, spring remained abnormally cold while the summer rainy to record an exceptionally unfavorable season for