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
BOONI: The district administration of Upper Chitral continued a crackdown on public transport vehicles involved in overloading on routes to remote areas such as Yarkhun, Laspur, and Torkhow. The crackdown was launched soon after a taxi land cruiser fell unto a river in front of Unauch village while travelling to upper Yarkhun from Chitral town
PESHAWAR: Political leaders, members of civil society and journalists on Thursday urged the government to take prompt steps for controlling widespread soil erosion and protection of houses and land and imminent road destruction being caused by the wearing away of river banks at Reshun village in Upper Chitral district The demand was made at a
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