Like the last election of 2008, the same traditional ways and means of sect, clan, caste and regional affinity and interests will be used as possible tools to get maximum votes. Election of 2008 was an easier one for Shahzada Mohiuddin, a veteran and octogenarian politician, who tactfully garnered support of the general public including […]
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CHITRAL, March 31: An expert has advocated farming of a local breed of sheep with unique reproductive characteristic, saying it can help meet the local market’s meat and wool needs. According to Dr Shakir Khan of Agricultural Training Institute, Peshawar, the sheep locally known as khotekan kari has the shortest possible gestation period of 70
According to linguistic experts, 6,000 languages in the world will reduce to half in the middle of this century if language shifting continued in the same rate as it is now. Speakers of a minority language shift to a majority language due to many reasons. In our county, a number of languages are endangered. Kalasha
SLAMABAD, March 24: Former president Pervez Musharraf finally landed in Karachi on Sunday despite mounting threats to his life. As the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has already announced the schedule for the elections, his homecoming has special significance for the future politics of Chitral. The former president launched work on the mega Lowari Tunnel
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Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King” is a 19th-century tale of empire, madness, and idolatry centered around two roguish British soldiers who take a perilous journey into Kafiristan, a hostile mountain region populated by pagans who kill and rob anyone foolish enough to set foot in their domain. Kafiristan took its name from
QUETTA: Saeeda’s house is barely a few metres away from the snooker hall in Quetta’s Alamdar Road which was struck by devastating twin bombings on Jan 10. For her the sectarian violence targeting Balochistan’s Hazara community has come home: her eldest son Irfan Ali Khudi lost his life in the second of the two blasts.
QUETTA, March 3: MWM’s Domki, when asked about the Hazara migration, vehemently rejects the suggestion that the majority of the people are leaving Quetta. “Yes, people do move abroad in search of a better future, but it is an economical issue. You cannot link it with these incidents,” he states. And yet, HRCP’s Hussain tells
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Welcoming his guests, the ambassador said a few words about the filmmaker adding that he and his wife Regula value the cultural diversity of Pakistan and therefore they had decided to screen the documentary, which showcased the people of the Kalash Valley Hoping the audience would be just as engrossed by the film as they
By Dr Inayatullah Faizi What strikes everyone about Chitral’s free style polo legend late Sardar Ahmed Khan is that he started playing the game at the tender age of 14 years and continued to shine in the field with the same zeal and vigour till his death on January 27, 2013. [caption id=\"attachment_7495\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\"]
ISLAMABAD, Jan 31: It is inspiring that social media has given voice to the common people for projecting their ideas, lodging their complaints, discussing the institutional efficacies, and pointing out the strengths and weaknesses in social bodies and so on. This luxury could not be even thought of a few years back. It is a
