CHITRAL, Feb 8: The recent snowfall in Chitral valley has provided the Kalash with an opportunity to play their most popular winter sport heem ghaal (snow golf) in the Kalash valleys of Bumburate, Birir and Rumbur. Talking to this correspondent here, a number of Kalash youth said that they eagerly waited for the snowfall as […]
UPPER DIR, Feb 8: About 80 vehicles carrying people going to Chitral have stranded near the southern portal of the under-construction Lowari Tunnel at Upper Dir as the security officials are not allowing them to cross the passageway. As a result, the passengers, including women and children, are shivering in the cold as night fell.
By Islamuddin The head of the meteorological department has termed the current record snowfall a much needed lifeline for the fast melting glaciers in the three mountain ranges – Himalayas, Karakuram and Hindukush – which contain the third biggest glacier stock of the world only after the two polar regions. These glaciers feed important river
KURAGH, Feb 7: On January 31, 2013, the people of village Kuragh called a meeting. The single agenda was “to make efforts to repair the broken portion of the Chitral-Mastuj road at Doomshughur voluntarily, purely on a humanitarian ground.” The elders pointed out the possible difficulties and hindrances, yet the youth decided to start work at any
The cliché that the real power belongs to people has been proved, yet again by the brave and resilient people of tehsil Mastuj, District Chitral. It took them just three days to accomplish this herculean task, what otherwise the inefficient and corrupt government couldn’t do in three long years. This remarkable feat of the great
