Aqib Ullah It\’s time to accept that we, hailing from Chitral, both upper and lower, can\’t afford to be political before securing our basic rights. We are still deprived of these fundamental rights. Every now and then, we face electricity problems, as we have witnessed for the past two days, along with mobile signal issues,
Shams Uddin Ehsan-ul-Haq Jan\’s approach was humanitarian, his vision far-reaching, his personality versatile, and his values universal. After completing his university education, he began his professional journey with the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP), a community development affiliate of the esteemed Aga Development Network (AKDN). As the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Manager, he served
Col (r) Ikram Ullah Khan It was in the splendid afternoon of 23 June 2024 when the sky was cloudy portending pre-monsoon rain and the weather was temperate with cool breeze gently blowing that I along with half of my family embarked up on a long ride from Abbottabad with an intent to visit the
Aqib Ullah How could bread trigger a bloody revolution? Actually, it was not the bread but the tax imposed on that bread, which was the favorite meal of the destitute people of France, that became the cause of the revolution. Dickens says, \”It was the best of times and the worst of times, the age
Mariam Sarah Javid (published in Dawn) Chitral was once known as Paristan — the land of fairies — or so a Chitrali princess told me. Set against the backdrop of snow-capped mountains, it is no surprise that the rose-filled valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province is believed to be inhabited by mythical creatures such as fairies
