By Zulfiqar Ahmad ISLAMABAD, April 16: The former military strongman Gen Pervez Musharraf is all set to challenge the decision of the election tribunal in Supreme Court of Pakistan besides organizing a protest demonstration across the country, including Chitral. Talking … Read more ↪
CHITRAL, April 7: The South Asia Partnership Pakistan and the Citizen Action for Peace and Development (CAPD) in collaboration with Rural Support Program (RCDP) has set up different youth and senior citizen joint groups for maintaining the peaceful environment of … Read more ↪
CHITRAL, April 6: There are two provincial assembly seats in Chitral district. They are PK-89 and PK-90. The provincial assembly seat of PK-89 consists of lower Chitral, including the Chitral town and the valleys of Garam Chashma and Kalash. In … Read more ↪
CHITRAL, April 5: Senior workers of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in upper Chitral have expressed full confidence in the PPP candidate for the provincial assembly seat of PK-90. The senior workers at a meeting in Booni hailed the services … Read more ↪
CHITRAL, APRIL 4: Returning officer Chitral Mohammad Jamal Khan on Thursday reserved order over the applications of political parties and lawyers seeking rejection of the nomination papers of former president Pervez Musharraf. The judge reserved the order on the ground that … Read more ↪
CHITRAL, April 2: Former president Pervez Musharraf is the most powerful candidate for the sole National Assembly seat of Chitral in the coming general election. A number of political workers from different political parties while talking to this correspondent said … Read more ↪
CHITRAL, April 2: Though the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) proudly claims to be a party of the youth and had also announced that 25 per cent of its tickets would be allotted to young people, there are complaints and disappointment among … Read more ↪
Report Waqar Ahmed CHITRAL, April 1: The death toll in the Barenis road accident of Monday evening increased to seven after the injured driver of the jeep also died in Chitral. Six people, including three brothers, were killed and eight … Read more ↪
CHITRAL, March 31: Well-known social worker Shahzada Amir Hasanatuddin alias Shahzada Gul has also submitted nomination papers for the provincial assembly seat (PK-89) of Chitral as an independent candidate. He came to the assistant returning officer’s office Chitral in a … Read more ↪
CHITRAL, March 31: Famous religious and political figure of Green Lasht, Reshun, Pir Syed Sardar Hussain has decided to contest election as an independent candidate from PK-90, Chitral 2. In a news statement, he said that he was a diehard … Read more ↪
The Telegraph, UK Major Geoffrey Langlands has outlasted four military dictators, educated generations of Pakistani leaders and an international cricket captain, but now he is finally retiring from his remote mountain school – at the age of 95. The British … Read more ↪
PESHAWAR, March 30: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has allotted ticket to Mohammad Younus Khan for the National Assembly seat of Chitral while Saeed Ahmed Khan will be contesting for the upper Chitral PK-90 seat. For the lower Chitral (PK-89), … Read more ↪
CHITRAL, March 29: The nomination papers of former president Pervez Musharraf were on Friday submitted for the NA-32 seat of the National Assembly in Chitral. Former Tehsil Naizm Shahzada Sikanar ul-Mulk submitted the nomination paper as the attorney of Pervez Musharraf … Read more ↪
PESHAWAR, March 27: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has allotted ticket to Maulana Abdul Akbar for NA-32 for the May 11, 2013, elections. For the provincial assembly seat of PK-89, the JI has fielded Maulana Sher Aziz while in PK-90 Maulana Ghulam Mohammad … Read more ↪
MASTUJ (CHITRAL), March 27: Aziz Nawaz Lal of Chapali has announced his decision to contest the forthcoming election for the provincial assembly seat of upper Chitral as an independent candidate. He is the only candidate to run for the PK-90 … Read more ↪
By Zulfikar Ahmad ISLAMABAD, March 27: Despite life threats from militant outfits, former president Gen Pervez Musharraf will reach Chitral with his trademark style, showing the powerful fist to his opponents once again, making it sure that his love for … Read more ↪
CHITRAL, March 27: Former president and All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) chief Pervez Musharraf will file nomination papers for NA-32 Chitral constituency on Thursday. President of APML Chitral, Shahzada Khalid Pervez told APP on Wednesday that nomination papers for the former … Read more ↪
By Fakhruddin Akhunzada According to linguistic experts, 6,000 languages in the world will reduce to half in the middle of this century if language shifting continued in the same rate as it is now. Speakers of a minority language shift … Read more ↪
CHITRAL, March 25: The All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) has announced its candidates for the two provincial and one National assembly seats of Chitral. A statement issued by the APML Chitral on Monday night said Syed Pervez Musharraf will be … Read more ↪
CHITRAL, March 25: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI) has decided about the nomination of party candidates from the district and allotted them party tickets. A source in the party requesting not to be named said the district chief of the party and … Read more ↪
Report Zar Alam Khan SLAMABAD, March 24: Former president Pervez Musharraf finally landed in Karachi on Sunday despite mounting threats to his life. As the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has already announced the schedule for the elections, his homecoming … Read more ↪
This article was published in Dawn a week before the 2002 general elections By Zar Alam Khan With turnout gradually decreasing over the last years, voters in NA-32 (previously NA-24) in Chitral seem to be even more disinterested in elections … Read more ↪
This article was published in daily Dawn before the October 10, 2002, general elections By Zar Alam Khan CHITRAL was allocated two seats – PF-89 and PF-90 – after delimitation of constituencies before the 2002 general elections. Earlier, too, there … Read more ↪
By Zahiruddin CHITRAL, Dec 23: The population of Himalayan wolf (canis lupus) is fast declining in the pastures of both upper and lower Chitral situated at the foot of Hindu Kush. Shafiqullah Khan, a wildlife consultant working with NGOs here, … Read more ↪
Report Gul Hamaad Farooqi CHITRAL, Dec 21: The inaugural ceremony of the district emergency response cell and information centre was held at the DCO office here on Friday. The district administration while keeping the disaster management/response needs had prepared a … Read more ↪
CHITRAL, Oct 31, 2012: It is not unusual for Mullahs (religious clerics) to spread extremism when they have nothing sensible to deliver. Fortunately, our youth are intelligent and mature enough to understand that Mullahs are xenophobic and that is the only … Read more ↪
In Chitral, a mountainous valley of Pakistan spreading over 14,850 square kilometres and inhabited by 500,000 people, there is still no printed newspaper. Though there are one or two FM radio stations, they only cover a small town area. Chitral … Read more ↪