CHITRAL: The Kalash festival of Pul was celebrated in Birir valley, which marked the beginning of harvesting season of grapes and walnuts in the valley and the return of cattle from the high pastures to the villages by the herdsmen to which they had ascended in May. The festival is peculiar to the Birir valley […]
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DIZG (UPPER CHITRAL): The forest department has handed over saplings planted under the KP government’s billion tree tsunami afforestation programme in different parts of the Yarkhun valley to the local communities, residents told ChitralToday. The largest enclosure of the new plants was in the Khotan Lasht desert where plantation started in 2016. The forest department has planted
Some dwellers of Chewodok, originally owned by the state of Chitral, have complained that a committee formed by the current Mehtar is conducting a survey of the houses and accommodating more people in the area creating discomfort for the dwellers. They said former Mehtar Nasirul Mulk and his cousin Assadur Rahman as well as the
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GILGIT: The six-day-long sit-in staged in Aliabad near Hunza was called off on Saturday after the Gilgit-Baltistan caretaker government assured the protesters of release of 14 political prisoners within one-and-a-half months. Thousands of protesters went to their homes after the end of the sit-in which was organised on the call of the Aseeran-i-Hunza Rihaee Committee,
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CHITRAL: Renowned car and motorcycle stuntman Sultan Mohammad Golden is these days at the centre of a controversy and also engaged in a legal battle here after he married a minor girl who is around 12 as per her school record. Official sources said the father of Samreen Sahar had concealed her school certificate and
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