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GB climbers get awards

ISLAMABAD, March 9: Participants from Gilgit-Baltistan won five positions and one special award under different age categories in the 7th national climbing competition which was held at IBEX club Islamabad on March 7-8. Director General Sports Board Gilgit-Baltistan Ajmal Bhattee was chief guest and he awarded the position holders with prizes. Ajmal Yaqoob got first […]

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District govt accused of failing to check prices, transport fares

CHITRAL, March 8: The inefficiency and failure of the district administration in controlling prices of the commodities of daily consumption and the transport fares on different routes were the most repeated complaints in a press forum held here on Saturday by Devolution Trust for Community Empowerment (DTCE). The chairmen of different public safety committees of

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Education should be a vision rather than a mission

“Education is known as a basic right to accelerate the socio-economic development in the whole. Virtually, every serious commentator agrees that major reforms within the Third World education is long overdue,” says Former Director General of UNICEF, Richard Jolly. Education for all is universally accepted as a basic right to accelerate the socio-economic development and

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Chitral a paradise for wildlife – and poachers too

CHITRAL, March 3: Poachers are active in Chitral, the paradise of wildlife, due to shortage of watchers. The wildlife department has only 56 watchers for an area of 14,850 square kilometres. Lamenting the government’s apathy towards the preservation of Chitral, Shakir Ahmad, conservationist at a nongovernmental organisation, said due to its enormous area and location

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