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	Chitral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chitral, or Chitrāl (Urdu: چترال), is the name of a town 35°52′52″N, 71°47′53″E, valley, river, district, and former princely state in the former Malakand Division of the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan.
		Chitral Town, capital of the Chitral District, is situated on the west bank of the Chitral (or Kunar) River.
		Chitral is known for the famous Kalash tribe that resides in three remote valleys west of Ayun, which is ten miles down from Chitral town.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chitral (500 words)

	Ghizer District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Khowar, Shina and Burushaski are spoken in Ghizer.
		District Ghizer is Northmost part of the Northern Areas and hence the extreme north of the country.
		The main river in the district is Ghizer River, which is known as Gilgit River in the east of Gupis town.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ghizer (304 words)

	Chitral
		The capital of the Chitral district is Chitral town, situated on the western bank of the Chitral River (or Kunar River).
		Chitral is situatated near the the Karakorams, the Hindu Kush and the mighty Himalayas.
		Chitral is accessible from Peshawar by the 227-mile jeepable road which goes via Malakand, Dir and the 3200 meters high Lowari Pass.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/chitral.htm (495 words)

	Northern Areas: Chitral Valley
		The Chitral Valley at an elevation of 1128 meters (3,700 ft) is popular with mountaineers, anglers, hunters, hikers, naturalists and anthropologists.
		Rambur is 32km from Chitral, the road is jeepable upto Ayun and the remaining 16km have to be travelled on foot.
		By road: Chitral is accessible from Peshawar by the 227-mile jeepable road which goes via Malakand, Dir and the 3200 meters high Lowari Pass.
	members.tripod.com /~PAKISTAN786/Chitral.html (620 words)

	A Short History Of Dir, Chitral and Kafiristan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sher Afzal continued to march to Chitral and attacked the fort and in the fight Afzal-ul-Milk was killed.
		The mission reached Chitral on the 25th of January and under its influence the position of affairs improved.
		The Strength of the Chitral Scouts was 891 and that of the Chitral Levies 100.
	www.pakhtun.com /shortHistoryChitral.htm (3476 words)

	Ethnologue report for Pakistan
		Hazara Division, Mansehra and Abbotabad districts, Indus and Kaghan valleys and valleys of Indus tributaries, NWFP.
		Southern Chitral District, Langorbat or Lamerot, Badrugal, and the Urtsun Valley.
		Eastern Kativiri is in the Chitral District; in Gobar in the Lutkuh Valley, Kunisht in the Rumbur Valley, Shekhanan Deh in the Bumboret Valley, and in the Urtsun Valley.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Pakistan (3292 words)

	CHITRAL - Online Information article about CHITRAL
		Kashmir territory), with a subordinate agency in Chitral, the latter being usually stationed at Mastuj (65 m.
		Kelly, commanding the 32nd Pioneers, who was placed in command of all the troops in the Gilgit district, numbering about 600 all told, with two guns, and instructed to advance by the Shandur pass and Mastuj.
		southern end of the Chitral country at Kila Drosh and the force was reduced, while the posts vacated and all outlying posts were handed over to levies raised for the purpose from the Chitralis themselves.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CHA_CHR/CHITRAL.html (1132 words)

	ETFRN News 38: Spring/Summer 2003, Mountain forests
		Chitral district, Pakistan, lies in the remote and isolated Hindu Kush mountain region.
		All rural households and almost all urban ones in Chitral are dependent on fuelwood for heating and cooking.
		Chitral's Junipers can only be conserved if the causal factors -ruthless and indiscriminate cutting, lopping, burning, over- exploitation and destruction of their natural habitat- are checked, and the underlying causes which compel the poor mountain communities to overuse the forests are addressed promptly.
	www.etfrn.org /etfrn/newsletter/news38/nl38_oip_3_3.htm (985 words)

	Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP ) - District Websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Badin district is situated between 24º-5` to 25º-25` north latitude and 68 21’ to 69 20’ east longitude.
		The district is bounded on the north by Hyderabad district on the east by Mirpurkhas and Tharparker districts, on the south the Arabian Sea and Rann of Kutch, which also forms the international boundary with India, and on the west it is bounded by Thatta and Hyderabad districts.
		The total area of the district is 6,726 square kilometers and the district consists of five talukas, they are Badin, Matli, Tando Bago, Golarchi and Talhar and with the introduction of the Devolution System the talukas have been sub-divided into the Union Councils numbering 49, Tapas 109 and Dehs 511.
	www.sdnpk.org /District.htm (1232 words)

	Chitral - A Hidden Paradise of The Hindu Kush
		Chitral lies in the isolated region of the Hindu Kush, at an altitude of 1500m upwards in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, on the border with Afghanistan.
		Historically the Chitral valley was one of the main arteries of the Silk Road across the Barogil pass to Yarkand and Kashgar in China.
		The minorities in Chitral are the Wakhi (in the Pamirs) and Kalash (in the Kalash valleys).
	www.gla.ac.uk /ibls/Biosed/linprnov.htm (5872 words)

	:: Khowar.com :: Representative of Chitral
		Chitral is also known as Chitrar and Qashqar.
		Chitral is the heart of Marco Polo land, nestling between the rugged mountains of the Hindukush- ‘Slayers of the Hindus’.
		Khowar, the primary language of Chitral, which is the mother tongue of 90% of the population.
	www.khowar.com (151 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The federal Minister was presented a warm welcome at Chitral air port by District Nazim and DCO Chitral.
		She announced establishment of Rebroadcast stations at Chitral for maximum coverage for PTV, as well as FM radio channels.
		Some 200 students of Chitral would be given scholarships and other mobile companies will also launch their services at Chitral he said.
	www.chitralnews.com /LN284.htm (546 words)

	13 BHUs in Chitral have no doctors -DAWN - National; April 28, 2002
		CHITRAL, April 27: About 13 basic health units (BHUs) out of 21 set up in the hilly Chitral district are without doctors showing district and provincial governments’ neglect towards the public health sector.
		According to the data gathered from the offices of Executive District Officer (Health), there are 21 BHUs, three rural health centres (RHCs), three tehsil headquarter hospitals, 22 civil dispensaries apart from the DHQ hospital in the district.
		He said all the posts of district specialists had been filled except that of a cardiologist while four post of tehsil specialists are lying vacant in the THQ hospital Drosh.
	www.dawn.com /2002/04/28/nat12.htm (414 words)

	I Would Rather Teach Than Run After Goats
		CHITRAL, PAKISTAN (PANOS) — Perched along the Chitral riverbank in the famed Hindu Kush mountain range lies the tiny hamlet of Mogh.
		Mogh may be ‘hidden’ from much of the world outside but, along with other communities in the rest of Pakistan’s Chitral district, its population is undergoing massive social, economic and cultural changes, triggered by new road and telecommunications infrastructures, other development projects and education.
		According to the last government census (1998), the overall literacy rate in Chitral district was 48 per cent.
	globalenvision.org /library/8/382 (1379 words)

	Neelam Plan : Northern Areas of Pakistan
		The Chitral Valley at an elevation of 1,128 metres, is favourite with mountaineers, anglers, hunters, hikers, naturalists and anthropologists.
		One of the major attractions of Chitral are the Kalash valleys- the home of the Kafir-Kalash or "Wearers of the Black Robes", a primitive pagan tribe.
		A legend says that five soldiers of the legions of Alexander of Macedonia settled in Chitral and are the progenitors of the Kafir-Kalash.
	www.geocities.com /neelamplan/northern_areas_of_pakistan.htm (2303 words)

	Sam Sloan's Family Tree - pafg59 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		District Council Chairman of Chitral, Member of Parliament and former Minister of State of Pakistan.
		CHITRAL, 06 Oct 05: Elections to the post of District Nazim,Tehsil Nazim and various reserved seats was held in Chitral on 06 Sep. Following is the result.
		District Nazim; Haji Maghfirat Shah of the Chitral Dost group was elected District Nazim by securing 137 votes against 119 votes secured by his closest rival Shahzada Mohiuddin of the PML(Q).
	www.samsloan.com /pafg59.htm (1441 words)

	Bigfoot: Jordi Magraner's Paper on the Pakistani Wildman -living unknown hominids...
		A study was carried out in 1987-1990 in the Chitral district, a region that had not been surveyed before, in order to locate the existence of possible eyewitness accounts and perhaps actually see one of the beings concerned.
		The district of Chitral is isolated because it is lacking in communication infrastructures.
		The Chitral district therefore belongs to a very complex geomorphological structure linking it on one side to the very high mountains of Pamir-Altai, opening westward in the direction of the Aral Sea and Western Europe and, on the eastern side, towards the Tarim basin and Mongolia.
	www.bigfootencounters.com /biology/jordi.htm (11665 words)

	Towards a Sociolinguistic Profile of the Khowar Language
		The leaders of Chitral are rightly concerned that the process of change in Chitrali society be managed wisely--so that the people will benefit from what is good in the new but will also preserve what is most precious in their own linguistic and cultural heritage (Israr-ud-Din, 1990).
		In upper Chitral, the acknowledged homeland of the language (Morgenstierne, 1936:660), Khowar is spoken almost exclusively-- with the exception of a small population of Wakhi-speakers in the upper reaches of the Yarkhun valley.
		(3) Linear polyglossia for the Kho of Chitral:
	www.samsloan.com /munnings.htm (9093 words)

	Ethnologue: Pakistan
		Primarily northeastern Pakistan: Baltistan District, Skardu, Rondu, Shigar, Khapalu, Kharmang, and Gultari valleys.
		Throughout northern Pakistan, mainly in the east in Hazari District, NWFP, in Kaghan Valley, Azad Jammu, and Kashmir.
		Chitral; Shandur Pass to Fupis in Ghizr Valley, Yasin and Ishkhoman valleys in Gilgit Agency, Ushu in northern Swat Valley, and large communities in Peshawar and Rawalpindi.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Pakn.html (4028 words)

	HRCP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Chitral: HRCP’s Afghan Desk on behalf of the Afghanistan-Pakistan People’s Friendship Association organised a one-day seminar on Sustainable Repatriation in Chitral on September 29, 2003.
		More than sixty people, including those from educational institutions, non-governmental organisations, media representatives and members of the business community participated in the seminar and put forward their opinions regarding sustainable repatriation and improvement of relations between the people of the two countries.
		She also called on the Afghan refugees living in the Chitral District to cooperate with the HRCP core group for solving their imminent problems as they could benefit from the humanitarian services of HRCP and its partner organisations in Chitral District.
	www.hrcp-web.org /friendship.cfm (1602 words)

	AsiaMedia :: PAKISTAN: Radio broadcasts reach only two union councils
		Chitral --- Only a small fraction of the population of Chitral district receives programmes aired by the city radio station which went on air in 1993.
		Stretched over an area of 14,850 sq km, the district is one-fifth of the whole Frontier Province and due to its proximity with Afghanistan and Central Asia, geo-strategic importance is attached to it.
		Khowar programme in Chitrali language was started in 1965 from the Peshawar radio station and it was mainly due to this reason that the language came to be preserved in a written form as the scripts of the programme were to be written down.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=31576 (530 words)

	IUCN Pakistan
		The Chitral Conservation Strategy (CCS) is a district-level planning exercise, which takes stock of the resources of Chitral, and aims to maximize their productivity through a decentralized planning process.
		Work started on the Chitral District Conservation Fund and project proposals were prepared in order to initiate implementation alongside strategy formulation.
		The planning process is facilitated by a District Conservation Roundtable as well as by a Steering Committee, which coordinates ACS activities.
	www.iucn.org /places/pakistan/stra.htm (593 words)

	The Commercialisation of BDS through an NGO
		AKRSP commenced its activities in the Gilgit region of the Northern Areas (NAs) in 1982, and extended its activities on a trial basis in 1983 to the Chitral district of the Northwest Frontier Province.
		The six districts of the Programme Area have a combined population of approximately one million, consisting of about 100,000 households, in 1000 villages, settled on an area of 74,200 square kilometers.
		Chitral Allied Partners for Agro Services (CAPAS) was formed by a group of farmers (the partnership deed was signed by all the partners and was registered under The Partnership Act 1932 of Pakistan) with an initial capital of Pak.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/ent/papers/pakidfid.htm (10593 words)

	The Kalasha Times
		One of the NGO is camat which is working chitral as chitral association for mountain area tourim in district chitral and geting fund from unesco and AKRSP chitral infact camat is nothing done in kalash valley event there are no kalasha employees in camat.
		District Nazim Haji Maghfirat shah, DCO Chitral Abdul Ghafoor Baig, Tehsil Nazim Sartaj Ahmad Khan, Union Nazim Rehmat Illahi minority councillor Bahram shah and an educated kalash girl Syed gul also spoke on the occasion and highlighted the problems of the area.
		Though the authorities are tight lipped about any VVIP visiting Chitral but it is strongly felt that either the President or Prime minister may drop in any time for a snap inauguration ceremony of the Lowari tunnel and maybe a quick visit to the Kalash valley.
	www.kpdn.wordpress.com (2179 words)

	Pakistan orders evacuation of foreigners from Chitral
		CHITRAL, Aug 21: An estimated 200 foreign nationals currently staying in Chitral were being traced by the authorities for their shifting to safer places in the NWFP in the aftermath of the US attack on Afghanistan and Sudan.
		The district authorities in Chitral directed the police to trace the foreign nationals.
		The police and other district authorities were trying to trace the remaining foreigners but their efforts bore no fruit till last reports were collected in the late afternoon.
	www.ishipress.com /chitrale.htm (718 words)

	tribuneindia... Jammu and Kashmir
		SRINAGAR, Sept 25 — The Taliban are creating a launch pad in the Chitral district of the northern areas of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir for attacks into India, it is reliably learnt.
		The Commissioner and Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Chitral, have rushed to the town to defuse the situation and an additional 10 platoons of paramilitary forces have been rushed in to localise the agitation.
		Meanwhile, in Jammu and Kashmir, the security forces have recovered an ISI leaflet titled: "Be Prepared for Jehad" written in Urdu from the body of a slain militant urging womenfolk to encourage male members of their families to join the jehad.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99sep26/j&k.htm (1440 words)

	Pakistan Travel Web > Destinations > Mountains & Valleys > Chitral Valley
		The Chitral Valley located at an elevation of 1,128 metres is one of the most popular spots amongst mountaineers, anglers, hunters, hikers, naturalists and anthropologists.
		One of the major attractions of Chitral, is the famous Kalash valley - the home of the Kafir-Kalash or "Wearers of the Black Robes", a primitive pagan tribe.
		The Kalash women wear five large braids of and the 'Cheo', a fl woolen homespun dress, red-beaded necklaces by the dozen, and an exceptional head piece (shaped differently in each valley) covered in cowrie shells, beads and trinkets that flow down their back.
	www.travel.web.pk /destinations/mountains_valleys/chitral_valley.asp (555 words)

	Untitled Document
		Tribesmen in Chitral (district in northernmost Pakistan) remained hostile to the British, who had entered the area and established an agency (1889).
		In 1895, a coup d'etat in Chitral cost the life of the ruling chief, and the victors attempted to drive out the British representative, which necessitated the dispatch of a 16,000-man British expedition to reduce the rebels.
		At the Malakand Pass, on April 3, 1895, the invading troops overwhelmed some 12,000 Chitralis, who lost more than 500 men before giving up control of the pass; on the other side about 70 were killed or wounded.
	www.unc.edu /~zito/games/mars/chitral_siege.html (990 words)

	ONLINE - International News Network
		CHITRAL: Federal Minister for Political Affairs with Additional Charge of Federal Departments (NWFP) and President PML of NWFP chapter Engineer Amir Maqam has said that his party is playing a pivotal role in prosperity and development of the country that is why a record annual Budget to the tune of Rs.
		Addressing PML Workers convention at Chitral Tuesday, he said that President Pervez Musharraf has no personal agenda but he is acting upon agenda of welfare of people and stability of Pakistan.
		Earlier on reaching Chitral the Federal Minister for Political Affairs was received at the Airport by Senior Vice President PML NWFP and Ex-Federal Minister Shahzada Mohiuddin, ex- MPA Sayed Ahmad Khan, District Nazim Chitral Haji Maghfirat Shah, DCO Chitral Abdul Ghafoor Baig, DPO Chitral, Cmdt.
	www.onlinenews.com.pk /details.php?id=98208 (665 words)

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