CHITRAL, July 11: Phindik, a famous local festival which used to be one of the most enthralling summer festivities until about two decades back, was again celebrated in the Yarkhun valley with great traditional pomp and show. To mark the event, a mega sports festival was organized in the valley with financial support of BLSO
BREP, July 10: Within the last about two decades, a revolution of sort has occurred in the remote villages of Chitral. And that is in the field of power generation. As power outages have become the most crippling issue all over the country and the government seems unable to tackle it at the moment, here
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Photo GH Farooqui.[/caption] CHITRAL, July 9: An awareness walk about zoonotic diseases was held under the aegis of Livestock for Life Program of Relief International here on Tuesday. The walk started from Chitral press Club and terminated at PIA chowk after passing through different bazaars. The representatives of different civil society organizations participated in large number. The
CHITRAL, July 9: The leaked Abbottabad commission report on the killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011 by American SEALs has claimed that in 2005 the CIA had told Pakistani’s premier intelligence agency, the ISI, that Osama had been spotted in Drosh, Chitral. After that, there was no proper or coordinated intelligence sharing between
CHITRAL, July 8: Butchers, mostly Afghan refugees, in Chitral are playing with the health of the consumers by ignoring hygiene safety and selling contaminated meat. After slaughtering animals in their make-shift butcher houses, these Afghans transport the meat to the bazaar in open Suzukis and other vehicles and sell them without precautionary measures. Most of
