CHITRAL: A delegation from the government of Balochistan along with officials from the Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) and the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) visited Chitral and met district administration and civil society representatives. The delegation also met rural community institutions in different parts of Chitral to learn from their experiences and observe models […]
CHITRAL: The shares of 12 communities in the Markhor trophy hunting permit fee in Chitral was handed over to their representatives at a function here on Sunday, says a press release. The representatives of the 12 communities belonged to the Toshi Shasha markhor conservancy. The programme was started in Chitral in 1983 by the wildlife
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PESHAWAR: Over 1,000 vacancies (1,054) have been approved for the forest and environment department to enhance its overall capacity and ensure protection of forests in the province. Out of the vacancies, 687 are for settled districts and 367 for the newly-merged districts. Similarly, raising of a special forest squad has also been approved to further
Nisar Ahmed MANSEHRA: Iron Age graves in Chitral unearthed. In what is being called the first ever scientific attempt to reconstruct the history of Chitral, a group of archaeologists has excavated a 3,000-year-old Iron Age graves in Chitral. The three-year-long multidisciplinary project carried out by the archaeology department of Hazara University led to the discovery
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CHITRAL: Upper Chitral deputy commissioner Mohammad Ali foiled an attempt of marrying an underage girl to a boy from Nowshera in Torkhow tehsil on Friday. A local resident told this correspondent on phone that the prospective bridegroom was the son of Zulfiqarul Mulk, the Upper Chitral district education officer (male). He claimed the officer had
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