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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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