The first Aga Khan School was established in Pakistan by Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah in Gwadar Balochistan in 1905. However, Aga Khan schools were initiated in Chitral in the 1980s. It was not new for the Ismaili Imams to open schools and promote education because they have a long tradition of leadership in education as
ISLAMABAD: Sacked government employees restored on Friday by a larger bench of the Supreme Court. The apex court had earlier this year terminated the over 16,000 employees by striking down a 2010 law. However, all review petitions in the case were dismissed by the apex court bench in a 4:1 majority decision. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali
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PESHAWAR: Land acquisition for the 153 km Chitral-Booni-Mastuj-Shandur road is in progress and the project will be completed at a cost of Rs21 billion. The project will be executed in four packages while work is underway on the first three packages. Similarly, tender for the 46-km-long Chitral-Ayun-Bamburate road will be floated within one month while the
CHITRAL: Work has been started on five points on state land on the construction of the 153-km-long Chitral-Shandur road, a meeting here was informed on Wednesday. NHA\’s project director (PD) of the road, Tariq Memon said 15 bridges would be constructed on the road. At the moment, work on Shandur road is underway to widen
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CHITRAL: Cheques were distributed among prayer leaders of mosques, qazis of Kalash and Christian community’s religious leaders at Town Hall here on Tuesday. However, the Ismaili community was ignored in the distribution of honorarium. Though the population of Kalash and the Christian communities is too negligible in Chitral, the second largest Ismaili community has been
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