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Chitral timber mafia making hay out of govt’s ‘windfall policy’

editor Sep 20, 2021

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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Timber mafia trying to bring blue-eyed official as DC

admin Jun 21, 2020

CHITRAL: The timber mafia is said to be making all-out efforts to bring one of their blue-eyed officials as the deputy commissioner (DC) of Lower Chitral. Sources…
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Govt hands in glove with timber mafia in destroying Chitral’s forests

admin Dec 25, 2019

While the PTI government has been making claims and working on a so-called billion tree tsunami afforestation project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it seems hands in gloves with the…
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PTI Chitral president burdened with another timber-related fine

admin Jul 8, 2014

ISLAMABAD, July 8: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chitral president Abdul Latif Khan has again been fined Rs.20.18 million for losing forest department’s timber to floods in the…
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Chitral’s forest a ‘windfall’ for timber mafia

admin Aug 21, 2012

Zar Alam Khan ISLAMABAD, Aug 19: The timber mafia in NWFP has wreaked havoc on the forest of Chitral by illegally felling green trees and smuggling them to other parts of the…
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