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PTI chief reminded of its promise to check cutting of green trees in Chitral

December 23, 2013

CHITRAL, Dec 23: For the last many years, brutal deforestation and ruthless cutting of green deodar trees continue in Chitral. The timber mafia is so strong in Chitral that ordinary community members are completely helpless before them because the mafia has strong nexus with government department. The forest department’s primary role is protection of forests […]

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Encroachers take over Chitral bypass site

December 21, 2013

CHITRAL: The incomplete bypass road in Chitral is being used by taxi drivers, pushcart vendors and other encroachers as the contractors have disappeared from the site without completing the work due to shortage of funds. About four years back, the then chief minister KPK Ameer Haider Khan Hoti had inaugurated the work on the construction

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President appreciates Aga Khan\’s services for Pakistan

December 16, 2013

ISLAMABAD, Dec 16 (APP): President Mamnoon Hussain on Monday said the government was keen to exploit the economic potential of Gilgit-Baltistan particularly its energy and natural resources for the prosperity of people. Talking to Prince Karim Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili community, who called on him at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, the President said

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Money matters: Russian hunts ibex, markhor in Chitral

December 10, 2013

CHITRAL, Dec 10: A Russian national hunts ibex and a Kashmir markhor in Golen valley and Gahirat conservancy under the trophy hunting scheme. Divisional forest officer of wildlife division Imtiaz Hussain said Vladislau Reznik hunted down the 38-inch-long markhor in the Gahirat conservancy for which he had paid 92,000 dollars. He said the Russian also hunted

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Potential of trout farming never exploited in Chitral

December 9, 2013

Zahiruddin CHITRAL, Dec 9, 2013: Fish farmers have complained of the successive governments’ failure to promote trout production in Chitral. According to them, British officers had stashed sperms of trout and troutlings into the transparent and cool waters of Garam Chashma, Kalash and Golen valleys in 1930s but no effort was made since then to

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