Zar Alam Khan ISLAMABAD: While billions of rupees have been spent on the tsunami afforestation programme, the government’s own policy of cutting trees for commercial use is helping the timber mafia in denuding Chitral of its green forest cover, according to official documents. Under the policy, the trees that are damaged due to strong winds […]
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Three Georgian mountaineers – Archil Badriashvili, Giorgi Tepnadze and Baqar Gelashvili – for the first time scaled the unclimbed peak Saraghrar North West (7,300m) of the Hindu Kush mountain range located in Terich valley, Upper Chitral, and are now back at the base camp. Although the Georgian climbers have not enjoyed a lot of press,
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CHITRAL: A mock exercise for removing injured from disaster-hit places and giving them first aid was conducted as a measure of disaster risk management for disaster-prone Reshun village in Upper Chitral. The exercise was conducted under UNDP-funded Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF)-II project on the premises of Government High School Reshun. The event attracted a
CHITRAL: A monsoon tree plantation drive has been launched at the University of Chitral. In this regard, a function was held at the auditorium of the university in which teachers, students and officials from the forest department participated. Later, university vice chancellor Dr Zahir Khan opened the drive by planting a sapling on the premises
CHITRAL: As many as 16 tourists belonging to Gujrat sustained injuries when a vagon they were travelling in to Chitral met with an accident at Ashiret on Sunday. The tourists belonged to same family and four men, three women and nine children were injured. The accident occurred due to a brake failure. Rescue 1122 said
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