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 postponement of the local government elections scheduled to be held on March 27 till May-June due to harsh weather conditions. In a petition filed with the ECP, […]
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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 young man from her neighborhood without consent of her father. Local sources told ChitralToday on phone that Nasreema Bibi, a class 10th student
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 paid salaries since May 2019, their representatives said in a statement. Israrullah, Wali Khan and Hakim Ali said that 214 Nigahbans (caretakers) were hired by the forest
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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 Pakhtunkhwa. Yarkhun is the northernmost valley of Upper Chitral bordering the Wakhan corridor of Afghanistan. A government middle school for girls is located in
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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 helping the timber mafia in denuding Chitral of its green forest cover, according to official documents. Under the policy, the trees that are damaged due to strong winds
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Zar Alam Khan CHITRAL: The defamation case against Chitral Today filed by a sacked official of the Aga Khan Education Service (AKES) Chitral in 2014 was dismissed by a court on Thursday. After hearing final arguments by Chitral Today lawyer Afzal Nageen Advocate and submission of documents showing Zohran Shah had been sacked by the
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Zar Alam Khan ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Athar Minallah on Monday came down hard on Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) for its double standard in regard to the services of teachers working in the capital under the wedlock policy. The court directed the FDE to submit the criteria under which it had absorbed
Zar Alam Khan ISLAMABAD: The Senate was informed on Friday that the government is working to provide relief to the teachers working under the Federal Directorate of Education Islamabad under the wedlock policy who have been repatriated to their parent departments. Speaking on behalf of federal education minister Shafqat Mahmood, who was out of the
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Zar Alam Khan ISLAMABAD: While 9 to 12 classes are opening from Jan 18 after months of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has created a crisis not only for its educational institutions but also for about 300 teachers, mostly women, from provinces working in Islamabad under the wedlock
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By Zar Alam Khan In a society where debate on many burning issues is considered a taboo, anyone openly expressing their opinion on such matters is considered a nuisance or like Sherjahan Sahil can be silenced and cornered with the stroke of a pen. Sherjahan Sahil, who has been placed on Schedule IV of the
