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PESHAWAR: With a high-level committee told to constitute a provincial task-force to ascertain the reasons behind the rising number of suicide cases in Chitral, it has emerged that forcing marriages ...

As widespread flooding devastates large parts of the Chitral District, paralysing life in Mustuj, Lot Koh and the Kalash valleys, government experts are putting most of the blame on what, in climate ...

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to enjoy the hospitality of a dear friend in Chitral. Until its division into two parts in 2018, it used to be the largest district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), ...

The KP government has allocated only Rs. 1,000 for the proposed Rs. 63 billion Dir-Chitral Motorway in its 2026–27 budget, ...

CHITRAL: The people, including lawyers, have demanded of the government to rename Lower Chitral district as Chitral and that of Upper Chitral as Mastuj to help preserve the heritage and culture of the ...

‘Ish Pa Ta,’ (salam) the Kailasha greeting, we learn something new every day. My recent trip to Chitral was not my first and most certainly will not be my last. It is a corner of Pakistan that ...

In Coke Studio Explorer, a new module introduced this year, which also serves as a prequel to the main show that is scheduled to appear next month, co-producers Ali Hamza and Zohaib Kazi, in the first ...

Chitral, the northernmost district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Province, lies at the extreme northwest of Pakistan. It shares a border with Afghanistan’s Badakhshan, Nuristan, and Kunar Provinces to ...

Growing up in Edinburgh, Scotland, as a young Pakistani, designer Adil Iqbal consistently felt driven to connect with his roots. What did the Pakistani identity entail? And more importantly, what did ...