DROSH, Aug 11: Five persons from Drosh are languishing in jail for the last over one week for forwarding a cell phone message criticizing the top administration official of the district. Local people complained to chitraltoday.net that the district coordination officer (DCO) had made it difficult for them to get the imprisoned persons released on bail. They said the SMS […]
CHITRAL, Aug 9: The leaders of all political parties Thursday asked the district administration to show no leniency to drug-traffickers arrested recently in the district. A meeting to this effect was held here on Thursday at the office of the district coordination officer Rehmatullah Wazir and attended by Muhammad Hakim of Pakistan People’s Party,
After acceding to Pakistan in 1947, Chitral should have been made a part of the federally administered Northern Areas of Pakistan with which it has strong cultural and linguistic links. The majority of Pakistanis believe that Chitral is a part of the Northern Areas (now Gilgit-Baltistan). Only a few know that it is, in fact,
