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NAB begins probe of corruption allegations in billion tree project

April 5, 2018

PESHAWAR: After allegations of corruption in the PTI-led government’s billion tree tsunami project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the country’s corruption watchdog, the National Accountability Bureau, has started investigations. A statement issued by NAB KP said a team of officers had been constituted to probe alleged embezzlement of funds in the project. A briefing was given by

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Shotkhar, a village of hard-working people

March 26, 2018

Deh ba Deh By Zahid Ali Nizari It is about Shotkhar. Starting from the vast plateau of Kaghlasht, the Torkhow tehsil in Upper Chitral, comprises these villages: Istaru, Wehrkop, Ryeen, Shahgram, Mehlp, Shotkhar, Mayar, Buzund, Wazam, Boop, Washich, Lamkushum, Sholkhanj, Shuchanlasht, Yakhdeez, Khot, Rabat, Khashun, Zanglasht, Ujnu, and Rech. All these villages have their own peculiarities

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Tracing Buddhist roots in Chitral – 2

March 8, 2018

AM Khan Why and how Buddhist rock carvings survived When this question is posed, ie how the Buddhist stone carvings survived from far past amidst such an insensitive and uneducated people of Chitral, the most probable answers might be that these rocks were away from human and animal access, safe from floods and any other

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Tracing the roots of Buddhism in Chitral – 1

March 6, 2018

A. M. Khan Time can\’t keep its mark on a page of history unless it comes about worthwhile. With the course time turn and episodes of history are remembered or repeated and forgotten. The past history, culture and heritage of Chitral has had the same fate, and whatever now available are mostly the travelogues—personal accounts

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The significance of Pathak festival

February 1, 2018

By Suraya Afzal Abu Moinuddin Nasir Khusraw was a very great theologian of Ismailism, well-known poet and a great literary figure of Persian. He was born in the year 1004 AD in the Khorasan province of Iran. Besides the holy Quran, he had also great command on the Old Testament. Before assuming his spiritual life,

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