CHITRAL, Nov 26: The illegal hunting of Kashmir markhor has been reported in Toshi Shasha Game Reserve. Conservationist Miraj Hussain from Seen village on Monday said three gunmen were recently seen poaching markhor in Toshi area. According to him, Wazir Khan and Gul, community watchers from Bilphok area, spotted the gunmen and asked them not […]
ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: The government decided to suspend cellular and PTCL’s wireless telephone services for the 9th and 10 of Muharram in 49 cities across the country. The suspension will be in effect from 6am to 10pm on both days. Speaking to the media on Friday, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that pillion riding
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
