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
PESHAWAR, June 1: Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral will get separate weather warning stations along with threat detection centres to attend to the risks associated with two potentially hazardous glacial lakes, say official sources. According to these sources, the two technical facilities will be set up in Bagrot valley in Gilgit-Baltistan and Drongagh in Chitral, where, according
CHITRAL, May 28: Minister for Population Welfare Saleem Khan here on Monday came hard on the the faulty survey conducted for the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) which deprived the poor and the destitute of their right to financial assistance and listed hundreds of undeserving families having right connections to be the beneficiaries. Speaking at a
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PESHAWAR, May 26: The residents of Ayun village in Chitral have expressed grave concern over the growing deforestation in the district and demanded of the provincial government to take immediate action against the timber mafia and save the remaining trees. Speaking at a news conference at Peshawar Press Club on Saturday, a member of Muttahida
Report Waqar Ahmad CHITRAL, May 25: The people of Chitral added a new chapter to the history of the valley when they attended a colourful ceremony held at the historical Chitral Fort in connection with the crowning of the new Mehtar Shahzada Fatehul Mulk Ali Nasir on Thursday. The ceremony was attended by more than
CHITRAL, April 27: Naik Tariq Jalal of Chitral Scouts, a resident of Denin, reached home on Friday – more than eight months after being kidnapped and taken to Afghanistan by the Taliban. He was set free by the militants reportedly after receiving ransom. The family and people of Chitral took a sigh of relief on
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After Taliban threats, more army troops have arrived in Chitral to enhance security along the border with Afghanistan. infiltration and open threats of attacks from Afghanistan, two more units of the army have been moved to Chitral to strengthen security, sources in the military told chitraltoday.net. It may be noted that army has already been
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CHITRAL: Government has been warned against leasing out Chitral\’s minerals to outsiders. Addressing a press conference after a joint meeting of the LSOs and the stakeholders convened by Chitral Community Development Network, former district nazim Maghfirat Shah, Abdul Ghafar, Colonel (retired) Sardar Mohammad, Qadir Shah, Israruddin and others alleged that the government employed shady ways
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CHITRAL: Prolonged winter has delayed arrival of spring in Chitral. Hayat Baig, an agriculturist working with an NGO said the spring season in the valley is delay by forty days and this cast an adverse effect on the productivity of crops and fruits. He said that the almonds used to blossom in the month of
