While the federal government is all set to inaugurate the first unit of 36 megawatt of the Rs30 billion worth Golen Gol Hydropower Project at the end of this year, local people fear they will not get electricity from the powerhouse to overcome the prolonged power crisis on a priority. Officials in the federal government
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Well, it’s not quite as simple as that. Because hidden away in the steep mountain valleys of Chitral there is another Quaid-i-Azam. And he is neither an imposter nor a madman. Our Quaid-i-Azam, as I can perhaps call him for the purpose of this article, was born in 1975 in Rumbur, one of the three
ISLAMABAD: Presiding over a meeting at the Ministry of Water and Power in Islamabad, an adviser to the prime minister he said 108 MW Golen Gol hydropower project would bring a green revolution in the area, adding 400 acres of land would be irrigated from the project. He directed WAPDA to complete laying of 200-kilometer-long
$4.5m allocated for snow leopard protection programme Snow leapords live in the high mountains of the Karakoram and Hindukush. They are mainly found in Baltistan, Chitral, Gilgit, Upper Swat Valley, and the slopes of Nanga Parbat. Their status was recently revised from ‘endangered’ to ‘vulnerable’ after an assessment by international experts. The ‘vulnerable’ classification means
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CHITRAL: An urban forestry campaign was launched in the town in presence of officers of line departments, NGOs representatives and people from civil societies. Speaking on the occasion, the additional deputy commissioner said urban forestry is the only solution to the environmental pollution. “Tree plantation plays an important role in eliminating environmental pollution, therefore, people
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