Zar Alam Khan While the long snowy winter is around the corner in Upper Chitral, families displaced by floods in remote Yarkhun valley are struggling with shortage of food and absence of shelter as help is not reaching them due to accessibility issues. The floods washed away 74 houses in three villages of Yarkhun and […]
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CHITRAL: Minister of International Development for Canada, Harjit Sajjan, visited areas devastated by floods in different parts of Pakistan, including Chitral, says a press release. Today, he visited Chitral accompanied by High Commissioner of Canada to Pakistan Wendy Christine Gilmour and Iqra Khalid, Member of Parliament in Canada, President Ismaili Council for Pakistan, Mr. Hafiz
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ISLAMABAD: The cost of the Lowari tunnel project escalated by around 475 per cent to Rs46 billion during the last 18 years, mainly due to delay in execution and scarcity of funds, it has been learnt reliably. The original PC-I of the Lowari Tunnel and Access Roads shows that the cost of the project was
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BOONI: An 11-year-old girl died after being brought to the Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital of Booni on Thursday due to alleged negligence of the hospital staff. Reports circulating on social media showed the father of the girl staging a sit-in on the premises of the hospital and refusing to receive the dead body of his
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PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has approved the provision of cash compensation for rehabilitation of houses that were destroyed in the recent floods. Chairing the first meeting of a committee to oversee the management and utilization of Chief Minister’s Flood Relief Fund here on Tuesday, Mahmood Khan directed the concerned authorities for opening
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