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Rahmat

Village organizations of old Chitral

Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The numerous ethnic groups of Chitral have arrived here from different directions and have occupied arable plots and thus lived on subsistence farming. The supply of water for irrigation of their plots from distant streams and springs demanded unity among these ethnic groups to use the meager water resources wisely but […]

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How to strive for self-sufficiency?

Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig For KP government: how to strive for self-sufficiency? Our province in the north of the country stands at a very important location with huge resources at its disposal and any sane ruling party can utilize its numerous resources for making the province self –sufficient- an exporter instead of importer. These resources

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A district without infrastructure

Shah Karez Khan The erstwhile Chitral district was bifurcated to make a new district of Upper Chitral in July 2018 covering an area of 8,392 sq km. The population of Upper Chitral was 195,528 according to statistics of 2023. The financial resources were also divided on the basis of population thus Lower Chitral having larger

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