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CHITRAL: MNA Molana Abdul Akbar on Thursday asked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to resolve Chitral\’s public issues, especially in the health sector. Speaking at a press conference along with Jamaat-e-Islami Chitral chief Molana Jamshed Ahmed, former union council nazim Shamsher Khan, Mehtarxao Abdul Qadir and Zakir Hussain, the MNA said the recent floods in Golen […]

CHITRAL: More than 90 per cent of the plants sowed in the far-flung village of Brep in Yarkhun valley under the billion tree tsunami project have survived, a forest department official said. About 225,000 saplings of rubinia, ailanthus as well deodar were planted in two phases in the village. Divisional forest officer, Chitral, Shaukat Fiaz

ISLAMABAD: A subcommittee of the Public Accounts Committee was informed that the cost of Lowari Tunnel projects had increased by 261 per cent skyrocketing its revised cost to Rs46 billion against the initial cost of Rs7 billion estimated in 2003. The meeting was held Tuesday, with Syed Naveed Qamar in chair, to examine the audit

BOONI: The annual Broghil festival has been rescheduled due to Ashura and now it will be held on Sept 12-13. A press released issued from the office of deputy commissioner Upper Chitral on Tuesday said the decision to forward the festival by five days was taken keeping in view Muharram and Ashura falling on Sept

BOONI: Local people have expressed their reservations over the holding of three-day Broghil festival (Sept 6-9) in the mourning month of Muharram, that too just before Ashura. The event was to be held in August but later the Tourism Corporation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (TCKP) and the Upper Chitral district administration announced that it would be