TIMERGARA: The four-day Dir Cultural Festival concluded at the scouts ground, Balambat, on Sunday with a large number of children, women and youth attending the last day’s festivities.

Dir Scouts Commandant Colonel Nasar Umar Hayat Lalika distributed trophies, cash prizes and certificates among winner teams, stall owners, traders’ representatives and brass bands.

Officials of government departments, elders, sportsmen and army personnel were also in attendance. A group of local youngsters presented judo-karate while schoolchildren recited Naat and sang patriotic songs.

Famous Khattak and Chitrali dances and performance of brass band party of Punjab Regiment amused the guests.

Various stalls of handicrafts, local embroidery, Swati shawl and Charsadda’s shoes and delicious foods of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were also put on display on the occasion.

Nasreen Nisar, a stall holder from Abbottabad, said that weather condition, very few visiting families especially women and strict security arrangements badly affected income of stall holders.

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