CHITRAL: The stakeholders have proposed constructing walking trails and installing chairlifts to connect the three Kalash valleys of Birir, Bumburate and Rumbur with a view to boosting tourism in the region. The three Kalash valleys, with Bumburate situated in the centre, are separated by two deodar forest mountains. As the mountainous routes are difficult to […]
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PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has directed the concerned authorities to provide well-equipped ambulances of Rescue 1122, one each to all the district level jails across the province to be stationed in these jails on a permanent basis to cater for any emergency need if prisoners. He further directed the concerned authorities for necessary arrangements
CHITRAL: Statements being issued by a group of individuals from Booni demanding that the 500 kv powerhouse established by SRSP at Domadumi be made “operational” and threatening a sit-in (dharna) unless their demands are met are based on “mala fide” and contradictory to the ground realities, said an official of the SRSP. The powerhouse meant
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PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to grant honorarium to prayer leaders of mosques across the province from the start of the upcoming financial year. Around 22,000 prayer leaders will be granted monthly honorarium of Rs.10,000 each. The provincial government will spend an amount of Rs23 million per month and Rs2.5 billion per annum
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BOONI: Representatives of different localities in Booni on Monday held a meeting and expressed their concerns and disappointment over delay to lay transmission lines from a powerhouse established at Domadoomi in Awi by SRSP to provide electricity to Booni. The participants of the meeting asked the management of SRSP to resolve the issue by Jan
CHITRAL: Low-grade officials are occupying higher posts in posts offices of Chitral, while six outside mail runners are drawing their salary sitting at home, thus affecting the service delivery. A knowledgeable source told Dawn that a lady junior clerk of grade 9 had been posted as the assistant superintendent (AS) in Chitral, which is a
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CHITRAL: An American citizen, Edward Joseph Hudson, hunted down a long-horned Markhor in the Toshi Shasha conservation area in Chitral on Jan 2, said the deputy commissioner office. District Forest Officer (Wildlife) Lower Chitral Altaf Ali Shah said the hunted Markhor was 10 years old and its horns were 44 inches long. The US hunter
Sher Afgan AWI (UPPER CHITRAL): People of Awi on Sunday called upon the KP government to construct a jeep-able bridge over Mastuj river at Domadoomi to connect their village with other parts of the district. A large number of elders and youth of Awi held a meeting at the residence of Amir Hakim with Sultan
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CHITRAL: Local political activists have demanded of the government to start work on rehabilitation of protection walls and diversion of river and stream during the ongoing winter season as work on such sites would not be possible from mid-March when the water level rises. Amirullah Khan, Upper Chitral district president of PPP, said that segments
Zahirudin CHITRAL: The beneficiaries of Chitral Gol National Park have feared that the climate change ministry’s apathy towards the park’s conservation will cause depopulation of Kashmir markhor, felling of deodar trees and disintegration of custodian communities. Notified in 1984, the national park has the largest number of markhors in the country. Spread over 7,777 hectares,
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