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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

KARACHI, March 6: “I am still half Chitrali and feeling proud of living with the Chitralis,” said Prof Dr Zafar Iqbal, the vice chancellor of Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology. “It is my desire to see Chitrali students in the front line and be ready for competition in every field,” he said

“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

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

DROSH, March 4: A house owned by former union council naib nazim Dil Nawaz in the Kessu village was gutted in a fire on Tuesday. Reports said the house located on the Chitral-Drosh road caught fire at about 12:30pm and before the fire brigade and local volunteers could extinguish the flames, the house was destroyed.