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AKFED\’s one MW solar power plant inaugurated in Hunza

November 17, 2023

HUNZA: A one-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant (SPP) with 600kWh battery storage was inaugurated in Hunza district of Gilgit-Baltistan on Friday. NPak Energy Limited, a subsidiary of the Industrial Promotion Services (IPS), the industrial and infrastructure development arm of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), commissioned the project. It sets a unique precedent […]

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Plantation urged to reduce impact of climate change

November 16, 2023

CHITRAL (APP): A non-governmental organization, Helping Hand, on Thursday arranged a seminar, “Youth for a cooler planet” at a hotel in Chitral. Hamid Ahmad Mir, an environment expert, spoke about how smoking, pollution and carbonyl gases were changing the planet and how climate change was affecting it. According to experts, abrupt floods brought on by

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Senior journalist waits for action against \’attackers\’

November 16, 2023

CHITRAL: Police have registered a first information report (FIR) against three laborers working on the under-construction Chitral-Booni road on the charge of physically assaulting and threatening senior journalist Gul Hamaad Farooqui. However, no further action has been initiated against the nominated persons. According to the FIR, Faqooqui was returning home at Shahmiran Deh in Chitral

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FC chief urge students to exercise caution on social media

November 15, 2023

PESHAWAR: Faculty members and students from various universities and colleges of Chitral, Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber, Swat and Dir visited Fort Balahisar Peshawar on Wednesday. They met Inspector General Frontier Corps North Major General Noor Wali Khan. They were given a briefing on the areas of responsibility of Frontier Corps, highlighting the measures taken for peace

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Protection walls, irrigation channels built under GLOF-II project

November 12, 2023

Gul Hamad Farooqui CHITRAL: Work on construction of protection walls and irrigation channels has been completed in different valleys against Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF) under the GLOF II project. Funded by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), protection walls, community centers and irrigation canals have been constructed in various parts of Lower and Upper

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