BLSO recieved 150 water filter kits from Ministry of Science and technology

Biyar Local Support Organization (BLSO) received 150 water filter kits from Ministry of Science and Technology Peshawer. These filter kits shall be distributed to the flood affecties of Reshun and Shogram. Mr. Mohammad Yonus, Assistant Director was the chief guest of the ceremony at BLSO office Booni. Mr. Israr, Additional Assistant Commissioner and Mr. Sardar Hussain were also present on the occasion. Zahir uddin Baber, chairman BLSO requested to the chief guest to provide more water filter kits to the flood affected people  in Rshun, Shogram, Mulkhow and Brep.

AKRSP and BLSO team visited Reshun Flood affected areas

Aga Khan Rural Support Organizaton (AKRSP) officials and Chairman Biyar Local Support Organization (BLSO) visited Reshun and Shogram.

The purpose of Reshun visit was to restore the irrigation channels, which had been damaged due to destructive flood. AKRSP team met to the local communities in different villages of Reshun and Shogram. The local commuity members appreciated the quick response by AKRSP. The standing croups in the affected area were going to destroy due to non availability of water. Because all source of water channels have demolished by the recent flood.   AKRSP team released fund to restore the channel sources according to the assessment of BLSO.

EFC' relief pictures

EFC relief camp

Eagle Flying Club (EFC) organized a relief Camp to help the flood victims in upper Chitral.This emergency relief camp collect money and other  relief goods and provides food items, temporary shelter  fatalities to the flood affected people in upper Chitral.

Reorganization of HIKAP Booni.

Re-organization of HIKAP

In the year 2007 we the young members of the community of teklasht Booni sit together and decided to establish an organization to promote the youth members of the community. In this way an organization named Hindukush paragliding Association for paragliding (HIKAP) was registered in the year 2007.

 Some of the main objectives of the organization were as under

    1    To engage the youths in healthy activities

    2    To produce the resources of Income generation

    3    To promote social values among the young generation

    4    To promote tourism in the region

    5    To promote paragliding and sustain it in Chitral

 District Chitral which hosts the highest peek of Hindukush mountain range.‘’Terich Mir’’ has been identified as one of the ideal place for paragliding in the world. The sport was introduced in Chitral by foreign Tourists from Europe and US, during the last decade. It was the natural phenomena that the local youths inspired and started dreaming to learn this thrilling sport and adopt it as an emerging sport in Chitral.

That time Mr.Saifulla was the only PG pilot in chitral, so it was suggested that he should be the president of HIKAP.when he became the president, he involved many people from chitral town without consulting the executive body, and the founder members of (HIKAP).

Within a year further charges against him have proved that he was not capable as president of the Organization. The paragliding team had achieved  a  hundred and more than seventy thousand rupees  as prizes during their visits to swat valleys  in the years of 2009,10 and 11

The amount of money deposited in the bank was withdrawn and used by the president and his friends from down district, without consulting the founder members Executive body and PG pilots, from Booni, because  the deposited money was belong to them. In the result of further investigation it was conformed that 73 thousand rupees were left in the account of HIKAP. At that time Complain was made to the social welfare office and the concerned benk. Consequently interest was lost and the Association was left in Dormant Position.

AS HIKAP was registered with social welfare KPK and is not authorized to provide license to use areal space in any part of the country, therefore the HIKAP PG pilots had to establish a club to be registered with PAFF so that they could participate in any National Event including Shandur Event, because PAFF is the only Association in the country which is authorized to provide licenses to any PG pilots in the country.

 To provide licenses to the PG pilots of HIKAP Booni ‘Terich Mir’ paragliding club (TPC) was established, in the village Booni .The central village of upper Chitral. TPC has been affiliated with Pakistan Association of free flying (PAFF) and enjoy the cooperation of the very supportive team of PAFF.

Since than some of the recently learned paraglider pilots of chitral town including the ex (HIKAP) president Mr. Saifulla planned to continue activites through HIKAP.During this time The old and founder members of HIKAP were replaced by new members unconstitutionally and  through fake documents grants from various authorities in the country was taken and divided among the few leading members.

It is worthily important to mentioned their names here Mr.HAji shahzada farhad Aziz ,Mr.Meraj,Mr.sarwar katur and mr.Saifulla are the main characters of the scene. They have taken ten hundred thousand rupees directly from tourism department, and wings from cloud base foundation using the good name of (HIKAP).They have kept the concerned authorities in the dark.

It is clamed by the founder members and executive body of (HIKAP) Booni that how it is possible that an association which is established and the head office based at village Booni is run by another group come from another tehsil, situated 75 Km away from the main office of HIKAP Booni.Therefore through these lines we ask the concerned authority to go through the mater properly and decide who is justified with facts.

For further conformation of the mater and  proof All the related documents are attached.

Eagle Flying Club, upper Chitral

A new paragliding club emerged in upper Chitral, named Eagle Flying Club

(EFC)

A New Experience around Hindukush mountain peaks.

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My first cross country flight

My first cross-country Flight.

It would be relevant to mention with great pleasure that I launched a success full 2 hours and 44 minutes flight that started from Zanni pass (12777 ft) and landed at Khot valley. The maximum altitude was 17200 fts. (covered distance 52 km)

With me was a foreign pilot who made his track toward Chitral town. When I took off I decided to fly to Shah Lasht.a beauty full tourist spot of the Khot valley. There was a local festival and I had already been invited in the festival. I stayed in the festival spot for 2 days. I participated in the festival and made many short flights from near by hills. The organizers and local people were very happy for my participation in the festival because paragliding was a new sport there in the valley which was introduced first time by me.

Foreigh PG pilots visitted Booni, Chitral.

 Agroup photo of the pilots with a police man and guide

Foreign PG pilots Visit Chitral.

Zani pass (12777 ft) is an ideal launching point amongst  PG pilots, which attract a great number of  cross country pilots every year.

This year four cross country pilots from France , Serbia And Balgharia stayed in Booni for nine days, before they set off on their marathon gliding spree from Zani pass to Gilgit. They made many flights from Zani pass to surrounding village eg. Booni, Awi, Mastuj to prepare themselves for long cross country flight. Eventually, on Fry day, they took off from Zani pass and landed in Gilgit province but one of them namely Fancios came back to Booni to re-continue his flight and I accompanied him to Zani pass once again. At 8:30 am we took off and tried to gain enough altitude but he could not maintain his flight to Gilgit due to bed weather.

One of the unfortunate incident was that Mr. Fancios’ GPS was damaged and he was very disturbed. On Saturday he decided to go to Gilgit by road because the weather is forecast un- suitable to fly.

  It was a good opportunity for local pilots to achieve a better flying skills from foreign cross country pilots. However Terich Mir Paraglidin Club (TPC) welcome all domestic and international Pilots to visit Booni, Chitral.

A group photo of perticipants

WORK SHOP ON TOURISM.

Terichmir Paragliding Club (TPC) held one day awareness raising workshop on tourism development in PTDC Booni, Mastuj Distt. Chitral.

The purpose of the event was to encourage the forgotten sector of tourism in chitral region with an obvious mission to provide off-form income earning opportunities for the youth of the area This is the way as to how growing pressure on natural recourses could be reduced.

The event was attended by a diverse array of stakeholders from different villages of north Chitral. Most importantly, Tehsil administration fully participated in the event and gave its commitment to support tourism secter in Chitral.

The young PG pilots of Chitral highlighted the importance of paragliding as a potential product at a pave with free style polo. It was conformed that there is bright future for the sport in Chitral, given the ideal take off and landing space in addition to non stop ideal thermal helping the pilots stay in the sky for long time to cover a long distance. The forum stressed the need to organize national level paragliding event in this region to the attract the tourist to the Region.

WORK SHOP ON TOURISM.

Terichmir Paragliding Club (TPC) held one day awareness raising workshop on tourism development in PTDC Booni, Mastuj Distt. Chitral.

The purpose of the event was to encourage the forgotten sector of tourism in chitral region with an obvious mission to provide off-form income earning opportunities for the youth of the area This is the way as to how growing pressure on natural recourses could be reduced.

The event was attended by a diverse array of stakeholders from different villages of north Chitral. Most importantly, Tehsil administration fully participated in the event and gave its commitment to support tourism secter in Chitral.

The young PG pilots of Chitral highlighted the importance of paragliding as a potential product at a pave with free style polo. It was conformed that there is bright future for the sport in Chitral, given the ideal take off and landing space in addition to non stop ideal thermal helping the pilots stay in the sky for long time to cover a long distance. The forum stressed the need to organize national level paragliding event in this region to the attract the tourist to the Region.

2012 Flights Summary

January 2012:

On the invitation of Pak Army. TPC pilots participated on the famous MalamJabba Snow Festival. The pilots spent 10-days there and had successful flights from MalamJabba heights. It was a great  practice for the TPC Pilots to exercise the take-off and landing in totally different environment.

 


April 2012:

Refresher training started from April 2012. Pilots spend a month in practicing ground handling and short flights. At the time of Qaqlasht festival TCP pilots had their first altitude flight from Zani Pass to Qaqlasht. Due to heavy snow on Zani Pass it took the pilots to trekk for one hour to reach the top.


July 2012:

This month started with the mega Shandur Festival. Paragliding from the past have been one of the major part of the shandur festival. Hence TCP pilots moved to Shandur to participate in this mega event. 6 Pilots from TCP shew their expertise to fly over Shandur polo ground from the near by hills.

Shandur festival was then followed by the famous KALAM Festival organized by Pakistan Army. 3 pilots from TPC, Mr. Zahir uddin Baber , Mr. Mughtasim, Mr. Farooq on the invitation participated in the event. The pilots had long flights for 5 days including flights from Hill Top & Mahudant. The participation was highly cherished by Pak Army.

August to December 2012:

TPC Cabinet after completing the participation in various festivals decided to launch a continuous long flights from Zani Pass. Pilots throughout the months followed had very long and interesting flights from Zani Pass. This helped the Pilots to increase the flight trimmings over 2hrs and furnish their handling skills.

Some of the flights were encouraged with the participation of foreigner Cross Country Pilots. It was a great opportunity for the TPC to learn the maximum on the presence of these foreign pilots.

Flight Over Booni

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One of my Awesome Flight............

Muzzafar Abad AJK Festival

Muzzafar Abad Festival 2012

Terichmir paragliding club participated in Muzzafarabad ,AJK Festival held on 22th-24^th June, 2012. In this festival numerous pilots from various flying clubs participated. Pilot Mr Zaheer Uddin Baber, Mr. Mukhtasim BIllah and Mr Sajid represented chitral on the behalf of Terichmir Paragliding Club. The performance of the chitrali pilot remained unprecedented. Tourists from all over Pakistan enjoyed the festival, with maximum number of children and women participation.

Parglider pilots took off from Pirchunasi at the height of 9313ft and landed in muzaffarabad after long hours of successful flight. Few tourists showed their interest by taking off in a tandem flight with the pilots.

Terichmir Paragliding Pilots received appreciation from AJK Tourisim dept and were promised to be called in every festival here after.

Sensational Flight from Zanni Pass.

Sensational flight from Zanni Pass.

The International PG Pilots including Brad Sander, Oriol Farnandos and two other cross-country pilots in addition to Terichmir Paragliding Club (TPC) launched a joint flight.

The international pilots immediately after taking off from Zani pass (12777 fts) diverted their flights towards Yasin, Gilgit. But the local pilots of TPC had a sensational flight over the snow caped mountains of Hindu Kush range and ultimately landed in Booni village. The pilots of TPC remained in the air for more than one and half hours. Baber gained 15200 ft. altitude.

TPC organized a Paragliding Show in Booni

May 23, 2012

Terichmir Paragliding Club(TPC) Booni, Chitral organized a Paragliding show from Zani pass which is at the height of 12777 feet from sea level, in the lap of Terichmir. The paragliding team consisted of two foreigners, Robert and Gray from New Zealand and local pilots Muzafar, Baber and Mughtasim.

The pilots remain in the sky for two hours and landed in Polo ground Booni.

The foreigner pilots greatly appreciated the area as ideal PG spot and that the people of Booni, Chitral are lucky to have such opportunities. They carried with them wonderful memories and expressed their willingness to come to the area for paragliding time and again.  

Malamjaba Snow Festival 2012

Terichmir Pargliding Club participated in the 2012 Malamjaba Snow Festival. The famous festival was organized by Pak Army. The purpose of the festival was to reassure the peace movement in the Swat region. Many tourists, including many snow sports lover participated in the famous 10 days festival. Terichmir Pilots shew a beautiful filight from the top of Malamjaba Hill. High govt personals , many foreigners including Noreweign ambassador for Pakistan visited and encouraged Terichmir Paragliding Club.

Meeting With Pakistan Free Flying Association

A meeting of Terichmir Paragliding Club (TPC) with Pakistan Free Flying Association(PAFF) in Rawalpindi Islamabad on 18-19th Nov 2011. General Secreatry Mr. Babar and Treasurer Mr. Moghtasim Billah attended from TCP side wheras Mr. Sajjad Shah President  and Rtd.Col. Mr. Abdul Jabbar Bhatti represented PAFF.
A long discussion on the promotion of Paragliding in Nothern Pakistan specially in Chitral took place. It turned out to be a very successful collabaration of both the parties.
Finally TCP affiliated itself with Pakistan Free Flying Assoiciation. The meeting  ended with the prayers for long lasting relationship.