PESHAWAR: Work on the construction of Lawi hydel power station in Drosh area of Chitral is in full swing. A spokesman of Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organization (PEDO) told Radio Pakistan that the power station will be completed at a cost of Rs22 billion in five years. The power station, being constructed through public-private partnership after […]
CHITRAL: The representatives of lawyers in the town on Sunday filed an application seeking registration of a case against the departments concerned for unchecked power outages despite availability of surplus electricity after the inauguration of the Golen Gol power station. In their application, lawyers Khursheed Hussain Mughal, Waqas Ahmed, Sajidullah, Muhamamd Kausar, Alam Zeb, Faisal
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CHITRAL: Hopes of Chitral town residents to get rid of outages in the scorching heat have dashed to the ground despite production of surplus electricity at the newly-opened Golen Gol hydel power station. This is mainly because of the failure of the power distribution companies in repairing the transmission lines of the now damaged Reshun
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CHITRAL: Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) has nominated Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leader Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali as its candidate for NA-1 Chitral, sources said. They said JI had already decided to field the former MNA but after the revival of the MMA the distribution of seats was awaited. Now as the MMA has decided to give NA-1 to
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SONOGHOR: A woman was murdered at her house here on Wednesday, local residents told ChitralToday. They said the woman was strangled to death allegedly by her husband, identified as Havala Baig, son of Shah Faisal Baig, resident of Gol area of Sonoghor. The woman was a native of Sarghuz village and mother of three children,
CHITRAL: The traffic police during a campaign issued tickets to hundreds of bike riders for driving without licences, not wearing licences and other violations. Traffic police Inspector Fazle Karim said that young people were mostly involved in driving bikes without licence and helmets. He said the drive was launched in order to check such practices
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PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has rejected objections of Pakistan Peoples Party leaders about the bifurcation of Chitral district and said that the provincial government had approved creation of the second district but the plan was stopped by the Election Commission of Pakistan. Speaking at a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club, PTI Chitral district
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The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday set aside the delimitation of constituencies in Lower Dir and three districts in Punjab and remanded their cases back to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). The three districts were Jhelum, Jhang and Toba Tek Singh. At the same time, Justice Aamer Farooq disposed of petitions challenging the
CHITRAL: Maqbool Azam has been transferred back to Chitral as the executive engineer of the communication and works (C&W) department. He had been posted to Upper Dir on the same post last year. Recently, Mr Azam was handed a commendation certificate by the adviser of the KP chief minister on communication and works for his
By Zahiruddin Though member of a low-income family and given a meagre annual stipend by the government, Zarin Shah plays the expensive sport of polo out of passion. On average, Zarin Shah spends more than Rs8,000 a month to rear his polo horse but ironically, the government pays him just Rs7,000 annually. “I even have
