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DHQ hospitals granted autonomy, Chitral to have burn centre

March 15, 2014

PESHAWAR, March 14: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Minister Shaukat Ali Yousafzai on Friday announced autonomous status for all district headquarters hospitals of the province and said it would help improve patient care and efficiency at the hospitals. Addressing a news conference at the Officers’ Mess here, the minister also announced free dialysis and kidney transplant for […]

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Aga Khan perturbed over rising extremism, intolerance

March 1, 2014

OTTAWA, Feb 28: His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan pointed out the rise in religious hostility and intolerance in many countries – both between major religious groups and within them. In an address to a joint session of the Canadian parliament at the invitation of Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the 49th hereditary Imam of

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Chitrali music, a unique cultural heritage

Exploring Chitral: Khowar music, the phoenix mode

March 1, 2014

Sher Wali Khan Aseer The music composed by Khow musicians has no match, neither in terms of its richness and diversity of modes nor in intricacies of composition. The oldest modes of Khowar music are attributed to the famous fabulous bird – phoenix – probably because such music of the highest artistic beauty is unbelievable

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Engagement ceremony of Mehtar-e-Chitral held

February 16, 2014

ISLAMABAD, Feb 16: For all the inhabitants of the former princely state of Chitral, there is good news. Shahzada Fatehul Mulk Ali Nasir, the young and recently-crowned Mehtar of Chitral, has been engaged to a daughter of the noble family of the Pakela valley in Hazara on this day of 16th February, 2014, says a

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In search of an elusive creature – Barmanu!

February 16, 2014

Dr Raheal Ahmad Siddiqui A few years ago, I received a mail from a friend with interest in cryptozoology, asking me to accompany him to the northern areas in search of Barmanu, a mythical creature since I had recently written about another one. Despite many promises, I could not bring myself to go. In December

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Taliban threaten Kalash tribe and Ismailis of Chitral

February 12, 2014

ISLAMABAD, Feb 12 (AFP): The Pakistani Taliban have announced an “armed struggle” against the indigenous tribe of Kalash and the Ismaili Muslims in the picturesque Chitral Valley, calling on Sunnis to support their cause in a video. The valley was once dominated by moderate Ismailis and is also home to the Kalash, a polytheistic people

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Property prices in Chitral on the rise even before completion of Lowari Tunnel

February 11, 2014

Every winter, due heavy snowfall and extreme weather, Chitral used to become totally cut-off from the rest of the country for five or more months at a time. During that time, the people of Chitral were forced to travel through Afghanistan to reach other parts of Pakistan and back, as there was no accessible land

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Three arrested for poaching in Chitral Gol

January 28, 2014

CHITRAL, Jan 28: It is another daylight robbery on the precious wildlife of Chitral. Poachers again hunt down and then hide the carcass of a Kashmir Markhor in the heavily guarded Chitral National Park sparking a number of questions about the conservation of the endangered species. Chitral police sources told this correspondent that on the

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Taliban planning attacks on tourists in GB, Chitral

January 28, 2014

ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: The Pakistani Taliban may be planning attacks on tourists in the country’s mountainous north, where 10 foreign climbers were massacred last year, officials warned Monday. Thousands of tourists visit Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral each year, many drawn by the area’s impressive mountains and glaciers, including the world’s second highest peak K2. Pakistan has

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Prime Minister has no time to visit Chitral

January 27, 2014

DROSH, Jan 27: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has no time to visit Chitral because he has to attend some of the major issues related to law and order situation in the country. His expected arrival in the valley on Tuesday was on Monday cancelled, sources here told ChitralToday on Monday. The prime minister was expected to

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