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By Zulfiqar Ahmad ISLAMABAD: The administration of the new Upper Chitral district seemed to be a silent spectator to the presence of armed guards from University of Chitral (UoC) who have taken 16 staff, including three females, at the subdivisional education officer (SDEO) female’s office in Booni almost hostage for about two weeks. But following […]

DIZG (UPPER CHITRAL): The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) has made the residents of Dizg more vulnerable to flash floods by not only leaving a protection wall along Dizg Gol incomplete but also raising a 13-foot-high embankment on the other side of the stream to protect another village. Protection wall on Khruzg side. Local

NEW YORK: MPA Wazirzada Kalash has called for allocating special seats for indigenous communities in the law and policy-making institutions such as parliaments “without considering their number,” ARY News reported. Speaking at the 18th session of United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), he Mr said that he strongly believed that adoption and preservation

CHITRAL: The district council witnessed a heated debate on the land settlement process on the second day of its session here on Friday. Speakers at the session, chaired by convener Maulana Abdul Shakoor, expressed fears that they were being divested of the pastures, meadows and riverbeds attached to the villages as a result of settlement

By Zulfiqar Ahmad ISLAMABAD: The project director (PD) University of Chitral has made 16 staff, including three female officers, of education department in Booni hostage for about two weeks by sending 11 armed guards led by the public relations officer of his institution. The PD resorted to this tactic after the education department took over