CHITRAL, March 23: Pakistan Day was celebrated in Chitral on Saturday. Though there was a public holiday, people attended different functions to highlight the importance of the day. In this connection, a flag-hoisting ceremony was held at the deputy commissioner office Chitral. A function was also held at Commerce College under the chair of Deputy […]
CHITRAL, March 16: Former district nazim of Chitral Haji Maghfirat Shah was set free from the district jail here on Saturday after he was granted bail by the Swat circuit bench of Peshawar High Court. The former nazim, who is also a Jamaat-e-Islami leader, was taken to the Atalique Chowk in a procession of party workers
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PESHAWAR, Feb 27: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday directed the district administration and police of Chitral to arrest those who killed a markhor in the area recently. While taking up a suo motu case regarding the killing of the endangered animal in Chitral, which was first reported in chitraltoday.net, Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan
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Zulfiqar Ahmad CHITRAL, Feb 25: Former district nazim (mayor) of Chitral Maghfirat Shah was arrested in the explosives theft case in Chitral on Monday. Sources told chitraltoday.net that a local court gave the former nazim belonging to the Jamaat-i-Islami party to the Koghuzi police on a three-day physical remand. He was arrested from the premises
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PESHAWAR, Dec 27: A petition was on Thursday filed with Peshawar High Court against the opening of the under-construction Lowari Tunnel only for three days a week. When the Lowari Pass road closes in winter due to snowfall, it is only the under-construction tunnel through which the people of Chitral commute with other parts of
Dr Tariqullah Khan I have a lot of memories from my childhood that I spent in my ancestral village Moreder located deep inside the Chitral valley of the Hindukush ranges. I estimate these memories are for the period between 1962 and 1971; 1962 because that is the year I can trace back to my early
Zar Alam Khan ISLAMABAD, Aug 19: The timber mafia in NWFP has wreaked havoc on the forest of Chitral by illegally felling green trees and smuggling them to other parts of the country. However, the government has failed to take action against the network despite initiating investigations through the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). Chitral\’s mostly
Zar Alam Khan (Originally published in Dawn in 2008) As the annual Shandur festival draws nearer, a controversy between the Northern Areas (N.As) administration and Chitral over some meadows and pastures on the 10,500-foot-high pass has overshadowed the preparations, threatening even the future of the now worldwide popular event. The dispute between the locals of
Study reveals trafficking of poor Chitrali girls A study recently conducted by Regional Women Empowerment Project of Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) suggested that the 74 per cent of the marriage of Chitrali girls with down-district people especially in Punjab proved to be fake. It says that the trafficking of women is done for
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