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DROSH, Dec 30: The Anjuman Taraqi-e-Khowar, Drosh, has welcomed the decision of the KP Textbook Board to form a committee to remove the errors in the Khowar Primer and provide newly printed primers to schools for the next academic session. In a press statement here, the Anjuman said that the acceptance of the glaring mistakes

CHITRAL, Dec 30: According to an announcement issued from the deputy commissioner office here, the under-construction Lowari tunnel will open for traffic on coming Saturday, Sunday and Monday (Jan 4, 5 and 6). However, the announcement did not mention if the schedule was the final or it would be changed. Some residents here were of

CHITRAL: The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) will provide pasture management plan based on scientific approach to ensure sustainability and soil protection in pastures of Kalash valley of Rumbur. Talking to this correspondent here, WWF field biologist for Chitral region Shafiqullah Khan said though the grazing and pasture management were not new to Chitral, where

Photo Fardad Ali Shah[/caption] ISLAMABAD, Dec 29: Due to the conflict of interest and lack of coordination between the federal and the KP governments, the people of Chitral are suffering as so far a schedule for the opening of the under-construction Lowari tunnel has not been finalized. For the last a couple of weeks, the

CHITRAL, Dec 28: The only land route connecting Chitral with other parts of the country was blocked on the Lowari top after snowfall early Saturday morning. In the meantime, the government has not opened the under-construction tunnel to allow the stranded people to reach their destinations. But sources told this scribe that vehicles of influential