Zulfiqar Ahmad ISLAMABAD: The residents of Madaklasht on Thursday accused the Drosh police of siding with a group of settlers despite the latter\’s attack on the local community which left four people injured on Wednesday evening. Talking to ChitralToday over the phone, their representatives on condition of anonimity said Zaram Khan along with four of his […]
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Zulfiqar Ahmad ISLAMABAD: In a bizarre incident of its kind in Chitral’s Madaklasht valley, dozens of people were taken hostage and kidnapped by groups of local people and settlers over a dispute pertaining to a land dispute and utilization of a stream for irrigation purposes. Talking to ChitralToday, Sher Ajab Khan, a retired scholar of
CHITRAL: Two days after some residents of Sheikhandeh in Rumbur alleged illegal cutting of trees and misuse of forest royalty, a group from the same area declared them \’miscreants\’ and alleged that they were trying to create unrest among the local residents. Speaking at a press conference, former district council member Saifullah Kalash, retired Subedar
CHITRAL: Residents of Rumbur in Kalash valley on Sunday demanded an investigation into cutting of green trees in Compartment No one and other areas of Rumbur. Addressing a press conference in Chitral, Abdulr Saboor Qureshi, Mehrab Uddin, Haji Ghulam Rasul, Sharif Ullah, saifullah Jan, Noor Wali Khan and others said that thousands of trees had
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ISLAMABAD, July 8: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chitral president Abdul Latif Khan has again been fined Rs20.18 million for losing forest department’s timber to floods in the Kalash valley. A letter issued by Naeem Afridi, deputy forest manager FDC Chitral, on April 2, 2014, (copy available with ChitralToday) stated that a contract for harvesting fallen trees
