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Shandur road opens for 4×4 vehicles

BOONI (UPPER CHITRAL): The road between Chitral and Gilgit-Baltistan, which remains blocked in the winter, is now open but only for 4×4 vehicles. The office of the deputy commissioner of Upper Chitral stated on Wednesday that two jeeps arrived in Mastuj from Gilgit-Baltistan. However, it added that there was still heavy snow on the road […]

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As it flowers

A.M. Khan   Every year after February, many valleys and sub-valleys in Chitral begin blossoming and its landscape flourishing. The spatiality of seasonal bifurcation between kuh and sarhad continues unfolding with weatherly patterns in these areas differently. Today, I took a chance of sitting in a parcel of land bloomed green with yellow flowers. It was not the

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Khowar Rang program artists honored

Irshadullah Khan PESHAWAR: In the studio of Radio Pakistan Peshawar, an acknowledgment ceremony was held for the singers associated with the Chitrali program – Khowar Rang. Mohammad Ismail Wali Akhgar was the chief guest of this event while Munwar Zaman Zarif hosted it. Radio Pakistan Peshawar Station Director Syeda Ifat Jabbar  explained the purpose of

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Seasonal gloom

Fariha Afsar (Kuragh) When in winter, if you feel a creepy gloominess around you, then you are not the only one who is experiencing it. In fact, people, who are living in Chitral, are having this disorder frequently, because of the harsh and bleak winter seasons of the area. When I was little, I used

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