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Chitral is one of the most religious and patriarchal societies in the country.  In a rural patriarchal society like Chitral, women are the ones who bear the difficult task of family care and related domestic burden i.e. child bearing, cleaning, cooking, work in fields etc. It does not mean that men are only idle perpetrators or having luxurious lives like …

Saturday is the first of Feb. 29, or Leap Day, since 2016. So, why do we have Leap Years, anyway? It’s all because of the Earth’s rotation and the fact that a day isn’t actually an exact 24 hours. Slooh astronomer Bob Berman explained to AccuWeather, that each rotation of Earth takes 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds, to …

Students of Department of Management Sciences, University of Chitral participated in National Project Competition 2020 at Dawood University of Engineering and Technology Karachi that held from February 23 to February 24, 2020. The team included Mr. Irfan Uddin, Ms. Irfana Muskan, Ms. Hashima, Ms. Laiba Gulab, Ms. Hanifa and Ms. Ruqayya who all hail from Garamchashma. Their project titled “Garamchashma …

Department of Management Sciences and International Relations Office (IRO), University of Chitral organized a One-Week Workshop on “Business Idea Development” for the students of University of Chitral in collaboration with Academic Linkages and Exchange Program (ALEP) and Business Incubation Center (BIC) at the Institute of Management Sciences (IMSciences) Hayatabad, Peshawar. The workshop was from February 10 to 14, 2020. This …

A national football tournament was organized by The Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIK) in Swabi from the 31st of January to the 2nd of February 2020. This was a national competition in which 45 teams from around Pakistan participated including teams from Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Kashmir, etc. Out of all the teams, the team of …

Water is an indispensable element for all creatures and for our earth as a whole. It is extremely important that an agricultural country should have enough water to support its food security and to ensure sustainable development. Unfortunately, according to the IMF report, Pakistan ranks third among countries most affected by water scarcity. Likewise, last year, the Pakistan council of …

Chitral Heritage and Environmental Protection Society started its activities for the year 2019 in February. The year was kicked off from a motorbike awareness rally from Booni, Upper Chitral with the mission of “Clean and Green Pakistan” and “Save Pakistan”. This awareness campaign was done in collaboration with Chitral Bikers Club and the team traveled throughout Pakistan all the way …

Valley Arkari is a small isolated and happened to be one of the most inaccessible mountainous regions located on the verge of the Pak-Afghan border.  Millennium Model School (MMS) is one of the premier educational institutes of this region. Likewise, the same school having momentous importance in the history of Arkari, especially for being pioneer English medium school, like that …

A woman is not an object. She is not something; she is someone. You treat a woman with respect. She is not your toy. She doesn’t owe you anything just cause you are a man. When she comes to you for comfort, you listen to her; you don’t make a move on her. Grow up and start treating women how …

The traditional dress of the Chitrali people is the Showqha, a loose woolen robe analogous to the Tibetan chuba (A chuba is a long sheepskin coat made of thick wool worn by many of the nomadic peoples of high altitude in the cold mountains). Amongst the nobility central Asian chapan (a coat worn over clothes, usually during the cold winter …