CHITRAL: People of Upper Chitral have expressed their dismay over failure of the government to rehabilitate irrigation and water supply infrastructure as well as roads and bridges which had been swept away by flash floods in 2015. Tahaffuz-i-Huqooq Upper Chitral general secretary Muhammad Pervez Lal said the chief minister had assured the local leaders during […]
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Zar Alam Khan ISLAMABAD: While 9 to 12 classes are opening from Jan 18 after months of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has created a crisis not only for its educational institutions but also for about 300 teachers, mostly women, from provinces working in Islamabad under the wedlock
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ISLAMABAD: Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood on Friday announced a revised schedule of the reopening of schools, according to which classes from 9 to 12 will begin from January 18 as planned previously, while classes 1-8 will start from February 1 instead of January 25. Mahmood was addressing a press conference after the National Command and
CHITRAL: The four-day snow sports festival will begin in Madak Lasht village of Sheshi Koh valley from Jan 29 in which besides local and national teams some foreign teams are also expected to participate. The event is being managed by the Hindu Kush Snow Sports Club with the financial assistance of tourism department. The first
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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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