Kagh Lasht Festival from 14th

Chitral Today Report

CHITRAL, April 10, 2011: The three-day Kagh Lasht Festival will start from April 14 (Thursday).

The event held every year since time immemorial is to welcome the arrival of spring season in the area. This year’s festival is being organized by the Sarhad Tourism Corporation (STC).

DCO Rehmatullah Wazir said the event would feature competition of local folk sports including polo besides contributing a lot towards revival and rejuvenation of the local culture.

He said tug-of-war, weight-lifting and throwing, firing with obsolete and outdated weapons, mountain race and many other local sports would form the chart of competitions during the festival.

He said the polo matches between the teams of different valleys were enthusiastically watched by the people as they thronged the venue to encourage their respective teams.

He said 12-km-long and three-km-wide plateau of Kagh Lasht offered an eye-catching and dazzling view with the advent of spring season, adding picnickers from all parts of Chitral thronged the area.

Mr Wazir said the tourism potential of the area needed to be exploited to attract maximum number of tourists, adding the Sarhad Tourism Corporation had heeded their request to patronize the Kagh Lasht festival.
He said that efforts were being made to advertise the venue as the popular picnic spot during the spring season where all the basic facilities would be provided to the tourists.--Zahiruddin