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All reservations, reflections and suggestions aside, let us salute the organization – MIER (Mother-tongue Institute for Education and Research) – and its members for undertaking and fulfilling a much needed task of publishing the first Khowar calendar. Thumbs up! We all Chitralis owe you many thanks. Since the publication of the calendar many reservations and […]

CHITRAL, Jan 5: The son of a local journalist was killed in a road accident here on Saturday. According to the Chitral police, Sanaullah, 22, son of Haji Karam Elahi, was driving his motorcycle on Booni Road when he fell into the Chitral River near Aga Khan University campus. Later, his body was retrieved and

CHITRAL, Jan 4: A former councilor from Garam Chashma, Mohammad Hussain, has said the valley had been neglected by both the incumbent government of the PPP and the former government of MMA. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, he said although the provincial minister Saleem Khan belonged to the valley but he failed miserably

PESHAWAR, Jan 3: A Chitrali girl, who remained at the centre of a controversy between the people of Chitral and Upper Dir, was on Thursday allowed by Peshawar High Court to go with her father-in-law after she retracted her earlier allegation that her husband had kidnapped her. Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan asked the girl

GILGIT, Jan 3: To stem the flow of controversial content in Gilgit-Baltistan, the government has requested Ministry of Interior to ban the Short Messaging Service (SMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service in the region. A letter drafted by the ministry’s regional secretary, read, “…use of these services is playing havoc with the peace of the region.”