Social and human rights activist Dr Khalil Ahmed Jughooru has demanded stringent legislation to check exploitation of Chitrali girls and women through underage marriages and other ways. He said the provincial assembly should either make a new law or endorse the existing one, if any, in order to protect the rights of Chitral women, girls
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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
