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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Energy Omar Ayub Thursday informed the National Assembly that Rs 300 million was allocated for upgradation of 132 kilowatt grid station and electrification of villages in Chitral. He was responding to a calling attention notice of members of National Assembly Molana Abdul Akbar Chitrali and Shahida Akhter Ali regarding delay in […]

CHITRAL: Heavy snowfall badly affected routine life across Chitral with blockades of roads to all sub-valleys on Tuesday morning. The main Chitral-Mastuj road was blocked while Chitral police tried to help stranded passengers on Chitral-Dir road in Lowari area. A resident of Dizg in Yarkhun valley told ChitralToday that overnight snowfall had cut off the

PESHAWAR: All appointments recently made in the office of the district health officer (DHO) Chitral have been held in abeyance. An order issued by the directorate general heath services Peshawar said the appointment in the DHO of Class IV or any other staff will be kept in abeyance till completion of an inquiry. The move

CHITRAL: The newly-created Upper Chitral district is yet to be made fully functional as its residents and officials still have to go to Lower Chitral in connection with their works in different government departments. After bifurcation of Chitral the deputy commissioner of the new district was posted in March 2019, but so far no department