The Timber Mafia of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

In Arandu Gol, a government document put the army on record. The forest inventory settled the rest.

In August 2021, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, approved Rs525 million for the transportation of 1.494 million cubic feet of illegally logged timber out of Arandu Gol in Lower Chitral. The forest department’s cabinet summary justifying the operation used a specific phrase. It stated that the district administratio…