One can feel the agony and distress of a person whose mother died in Chitral and he could not fly from Peshawar for 13 days due to inclement weather in his hometown. This had happened with one Syed Riaz Shah of Arkari valley, who was in Peshawar in 1990s when he received the sad news.
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CHITRAL, Nov 16: Hydrolink organized a five-day training workshop for operators of SWAT Operation, Maintenance and Management of Micro-Hydro Power plant with the joint collaboration of Sarhad Rural Support Program (SRSP) under the EU funded PEACE project. The training was organized at the Center for Sustainable Development Hydrolink Engineering Company Taxila, said a press release
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CHITRAL, Nov 16: The Sarhad Rural Support Program (SRSP) has started launching solar-powered irrigation schemes in Chitral to bring barren land under cultivation. In the inaugural ceremony of first such scheme in Khairabad village near Drosh on Saturday, speakers said prosperity will usher in the area if the scheme succeeds which will increase the individual
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CHITRAL, Nov 16: The BA/BSc supplementary examinations of the Benazir Bhutto University will start on November 26. In the press release issued from the office of controller examinations Prof Farzana Parveen on Saturday, it was stated that the roll number slips have been sent to the private candidates while the regular candidates should take them
Published in Express Tribune It may seem ironic to promote tourism in Pakistan by writing about a natural disaster; but the level of hospitality that I experienced in Chitral surpassed any hospitality that I have experienced anywhere else in the world. PHOTO: ABDULLAH SAAD In an age in which reading or watching the news is enough
