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PESHAWAR:  While people are packing up and leaving Peshawar to celebrate Eid in their respective hometowns, those wanting to head for Chitral are not so fortunate. With the Lowari Tunnel undergoing construction and the Lowari Top already capped with snow, the 370-kilometre journey to Chitral towards the north of the provincial capital has become increasing

CHITRAL, Oct 29: Early snowfall in mountains and Eidul Azha have led to early return of farmers to villages from pastures in highlands. According to Dr Inayatullah Faizi, former project manager of International Union for Conservation of Nature in Chitral, cattle are sent to pastures in early June and they are brought home at the

BREP (UPPER CHITRAL), Oct 28: People here celebrated Eidul Azha in shock and the village is still tense after a youth shot dead a woman before killing himself a few days earlier. When the bodies of two victims were brought back from hospital after postmortem on Friday, tension gripped the locality where the killings had

CHITRAL, Oct 26: As many 15 persons from Ayun village have courted arrest here. They had been nominated in a case related to dismantling of a  forest department checkpost and stopping the transportation of timber from Kalash valleys to out of the district. About 50 persons had been nominated by the police after registration of

CHITRAL, Oct 26: The bodies of the youth who committed suicide after killing a woman were buried in Brep village of Yarkhun valley on Friday after postmortem examination in the rural health centre of Mastuj. Sakhawat Khan, 28, had shot dead Mehbuba alia Buba after she refused to marry him. The police said she was