DROSH: Nagar Fort beat Kuro Drosh to retain the polo cup trophy for the second year on Monday. In the final match played here, Nagar Fort scored six goals against just one by the Kuru team. As many as eight teams from Drosh, comprising players from both the Lower and Upper Chitral districts, took part […]
By Maria Temming Put into music, telescope observations of the center of the Milky Way create a tranquil tune, glittering with xylophone and piano notes. The iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula, meanwhile, sound like an eerie sci-fi score. And the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A is a sweeping symphony. These musical renditions, or sonifications, were
Rakhshinda Shakir Marriage has been part of human history since antiquity. Every part of the world has its own traditions and celebrations revolving around it; hence Chitral is no exception. The concept of love marriage is yet to be openly a culture in Chitral but even the way marriages are arranged and values attached to
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CHITRAL: Speakers at a function held at Kalasha Dur Museum in Bumburate stressed the need to promote tourism in order to ensure development of the backward but scenic areas of Chitral. The function was arranged in connection with the World Tourism Day and attended by civil society representatives, local people and tourists from different parts
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DIZG (UPPER CHITRAL): The forest department has handed over saplings planted under the KP government’s billion tree tsunami afforestation programme in different parts of the Yarkhun valley to the local communities, residents told ChitralToday. The largest enclosure of the new plants was in the Khotan Lasht desert where plantation started in 2016. The forest department has planted
