Ejaz Ahmed “Generally, my brothers tend to washing their clothes, especially when I’m not home but I feel ashamed of myself whenever I see them doing that, and sometimes I think that may be I’m not discharging my duties truthfully,” said Nusrat Fatima when asked by ChitralToday to react to last year’s famous placard slogan, […]
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By Monidioa Dey It is all about the famous Silk Route. Despite barriers of great mountains and inhospitable terrains there has been constant trade connections between India, China, Tibet, and Central Asia from the ancient times via various land routes. These ancient roads that moved through the western Himalaya (that include the area between Chitral
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BOONI: More than a year after Upper Chitral was notified as a new district, the government has failed to make its departments functional. PPP leader Engineer Fazle Rabi Jan on Tuesday asked the PTI government to ensure allocation of funds for Upper Chitral and make all line departments functional in the new district without any
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ISLAMABAD: A bilingual Khowar-English collection of Khowar folk stories, titled Khowar Folktales Volume-1 has been published by Lok Virsa, Islamabad. The book will be available in the market by the next week. This is the first of the larger project signed with Lok Virsa on the volume-wise bilingual documentation and collection of about 300 hundred
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ISLAMABAD: The Kataviri language is vigorous in orality with strong position on identity scale but lags behind in literacy. Currently, the language lacks a writing system. In a statement, Forum for Language Initiatives (FLI) said it conducted a survey during the third week of October in Shekhandeh, Bumburet, Chitral, to find out what was the
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