HARCHIN (LASPUR): People in this isolated valley of Upper Chitral feel let-down and neglected after government departments and private organizations ignored them amid ravages caused by recent floods and rains to their properties such as farmlands, houses and crops. Village council chairmen and members, including Sher Azam Khan, Muhammad Wazir Khan and Dil Aman […]
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Friday highlighted the devastation Pakistan has witnessed due to the recent catastrophic floods and called for “building a wall” against the menace of climate change, reports Dawn.com. “I have never before seen this kind of devastation,” the prime minister said, as he addressed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) Council
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GILGIT: Officials from Gilgit-Baltistan have warned of a growing food shortage in the region as heavy traffic remains suspended on Karakoram Highway (KKH) in the wake of flooding across the country. Flash floods, which have killed nearly 1,500 people and displaced more than 33 million in Pakistan, had damaged the KKH at Kohistan on Aug
Zar Alam Khan While the long snowy winter is around the corner in Upper Chitral, families displaced by floods in remote Yarkhun valley are struggling with shortage of food and absence of shelter as help is not reaching them due to accessibility issues. The floods washed away 74 houses in three villages of Yarkhun and
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PESHAWAR: The Textbook Board of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Peshawar has made a correction in a textbook by mentioning Shandur as part of Chitral. In the Pakistan Studies book of the intermediate second- year class, Shandur had erraneously been shown as part of Gilgit-Baltistan. Shahid Ali Yaftali Advocate from Laspur Upper Chitral, which is located near the
