CHITRAL: Forest plants were distributed among local people in Kalash valley of Bumburate under the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The plants were distributed under the “Reversing deforestation and degradation in high conservation value chilgoza pine forests in Pakistan” project. Under this campaign, 15,000 seedlings of forest plants were distributed with the support of the […]
GH Farooqui CHITRAL: The participants of a memorial reference paid tributes to Muhammad Ali Sadpara who disappeared while scaling K2 on Feb 5 along with two foreign mountaineers. Candles were also lit in memory of the lost mountaineers. The speakers said Sadpara had last year visited Chitral and was impressed by the beauty of mountains
Civil society demands resignation of MNA Maulana Salahuddin Ayubi for getting married to a 14-year-old girl in Chitral PESHAWAR: Members of the Pakhtunkhwa Civil Society Network (PCSN) expressed disappointment over the illegal marriage of MNA Maulana Salahuddin Ayubi with a 14-year-old girl in Chitral. According to reports, the girl was a student of Government Girls
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Shahid Afzal Khan Burhan, an electrician and a father of 4 children, roams in Chitral Bazar for the past few days in search of wood, the only source of cooking and heating in the district. He used to buy the wood stock for his house before the winter would arrive, but this year there is
CHITRAL: The Sarhad Rural Support Program (SRSP) provided equipment worth millions of rupees for the Covid-19 isolation ward at the District Headquarters Hospital, Lower Chitral. The equipment have started functioning at the hospital, a statement by the deputy commissioner office stated on Monday. Financed by the government of Germany through the PATRIP Foundation, the equipment
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PESHAWAR: The snow leopard found injured by villagers of Rabat in Arkari valley of Lower Chitral has died in the Peshawar zoo. The zoo management on Monday said the wild cat had fallen and gotten its backbone broken. It remained hungry for many days after falling from the mountain and succumbed to the injuries despite
PESHAWAR: Feasibility work is underway to upgrade the Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital Upper Chitral into the District Headquarters Hospital. Moreover, a scheme for capacity building of the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital Lower Chitral has been proposed to be included in the next ADP, a meeting was informed here. The meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mahmood
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PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has decided to set up a commission headed by a senior member Board of Revenue to look into the complexities and public grievances with regard to land settlements process in Malakand Division. The chief minister has directed the Public Health Engineering Department to take over all the non-functional tubewells constructed
Gul Hamaad Farooqi BIRIR: About 2,000 fruit plants were distributed free of cost among people as a plantation campaign got underway here. The campaign was opened in collaboration with the Forest Department organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization\’s Chalgoza Project. In this regard, a function was held at the Community Based School Birir in
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ISLAMABAD: Small business owners, especially vendors, in Chitral town have called upon the provincial authorities to take notice of punitive action being taken by government officials against small shopkeepers and vendors on different charges. Mr Kifayat, senior vice president of the Chitral bazaar traders union, told ChitralToday on phone that for over a year checking
