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Displaced people brace for snowy winter without shelter
Zar Alam Khan
While the long snowy winter is around the corner in Upper Chitral, families displaced by floods in remote Yarkhun valley are struggling with shortage of food and…
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PTI Chitral petitions ECP to postpone LG polls till May-June
By Zar Alam Khan
ISLAMABAD: Office-bearers of the ruling PTI in the districts of Lower and Upper Chitral on Saturday approached the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) seeking…
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Kalash girl ‘converts’ to Islam
Zar Alam Khan
CHITRAL: Kalash girl converts to Islam. A 16-year-old Kalash girl converted to Islam after she was brought to the Chitral town from her home village in Rumbur by a…
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Nigahbans in Upper Chitral without pay for two years
Zar Alam Khan
ISLAMABAD: Nigahbans in Upper Chitral hired by the KP government to look after saplings planted under the Billion Tree Tsunami Afforestation Project have not been…
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Girls in upper Yarkhun hit hard by absence of schools
Zar Alam Khan
A remote valley of Chitral with a population of about 15,000 people is devoid of a girls school, thanks to the apathy of the education department of Khyber…
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Chitral timber mafia making hay out of govt’s ‘windfall policy’
Zar Alam Khan
ISLAMABAD: While billions of rupees have been spent on the tsunami afforestation programme, the government’s own policy of cutting trees for commercial use is…
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