By Siraj Ulmulk CHITRAL, Nov 23: There is a very sad story about what happened last week to Chitral’s most famous mosque, the Shahi Masjid, built by my grandfather in 1922 (the work had started in 1910). Every brick was transported from India when no roads were motor-able in Chitral. They were delicately placed, by […]
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Report Waqar Ahmed CHITRAL, Nov 3: Eight people were killed and six others injured in a traffic accident at Muroi on Saturday evening. The taxi vehicle of Zafar, a resident of Kankhon in Yarkhun valley, was coming to Chitral with 14 passengers when it fell into a ravine near a hotel at Muroi. The six
Waqar Ahmed BREP (CHITRAL), Oct 25: In a gruesome and very unfortunate incident, a youth killed a female student of a local college and then committed suicide here early Thursday. Sakhawat Khan, 28, son of Sher Nadir of Rustaman Deh, wanted to marry Mehbooba alias Buba, daughter of Pehlwan Khan of the same clan, but
ZAIT (CHITRAL), Oct 25: Child labour has so far been portrayed as an issue of the urban areas. There has not been any mention of the menace in our society though children have always been exploited, abused and put to domestic work not compatible with their tender hands and shoulders. Child labour often harms the
Report Luke Rehmat BUMBURATE, Aug 18: Afghan militants have killed the Kalasha shepherd, Abaduddin, near Bragamatal (Majam) in Nooristan. He had been kidnapped along over 800 goats by the militants on Aug 16 and taken to Afghanistan’s so-called Nooristan province. He was shot in the mouth and his body bore marks of wounds, reports said. On 16 August, 19
CHITRAL: Afghan intruders snatched away hundreds of goats from Kalash valley. According to local sources, one Gujor man was injured and another was kidnapped. Local sources told this scribe that some 60 unknown people equipped with guns from across the border entered the high pasture. They were properly from Nooristanprovinceof Afghanistan. When this reporter approached
CHITRAL, July 22: MNA Shahzada Mohiuddin has thanked Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani for his initiative to start work on the Mastuj-Boroghil road which was the longstanding demand of the people in the border area along the Wakhan corridor of Afghanistan. Addressing a press conference here, he said he had sent written
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LAHORE, July 12: One of the nine police and prison staff shot dead in Ichra area of Lahore on Thursday morning belonged to Chitral. Police said the dawn attack, in which 10 gunmen stormed a residential property housing officers from the northwest who were in the city for training, bore the hallmarks of a similar
CHITRAL, July 7: The three-day Shandur polo festival started on Saturday in Shandur, known as the world’s highest polo ground located at a height of 3,734 metres above sea level. Peshawar Corps Commander Lt-Gen Khalid Rabbani formally inaugurated the festival by throwing the ball in the ground between Laspur team of Chitral and Ghizar team
GHIZER, June 8: The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has crossed all limits in robbing the poor of their right to financial support promised to them under the initiative, and is doling out support to undeserving people on the basis of connections in this backward area of Gilgit-Baltistan. On the other hand, there is no
