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Social and human rights activist Dr Khalil Ahmed Jughooru has demanded stringent legislation to check exploitation of Chitrali girls and women through underage marriages and other ways. He said the provincial assembly should either make a new law or endorse the existing one, if any, in order to protect the rights of Chitral women, girls […]

CHITRAL: Forest plants were distributed among local people in Kalash valley of Bumburate under the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The plants were distributed under the “Reversing deforestation and degradation in high conservation value chilgoza pine forests in Pakistan” project.   Under this campaign, 15,000 seedlings of forest plants were distributed with the support of the

GH Farooqui CHITRAL: The participants of a memorial reference paid tributes to Muhammad Ali Sadpara who disappeared while scaling K2 on Feb 5 along with two foreign mountaineers. Candles were also lit in memory of the lost mountaineers.  The speakers said Sadpara had last year visited Chitral and was impressed by the beauty of mountains

Shahid Afzal Khan Burhan, an electrician and a father of 4 children, roams in Chitral Bazar for the past few days in search of wood, the only source of cooking and heating in the district. He used to buy the wood stock for his house before the winter would arrive, but this year there is

PESHAWAR: Feasibility work is underway to upgrade the Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital Upper Chitral into the District Headquarters Hospital.  Moreover, a scheme for capacity building of the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital Lower Chitral has been proposed to be included in the next ADP, a meeting was informed here. The meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mahmood