MASTUJ: The district administration of Upper Chitral last month launched a campaign against supply of unhygienic and substandard food items such as chips to local traders and impounded or sent back a number of trucks after they arrived in Booni from down districts. But it seems that the action was a one-time exercise as no […]
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CHITRAL: A bid to smuggle timber out of Chitral was foiled by officials of the forest department late on Monday night. An official said the timber mafia tried to smuggle the timber late at night but the truck carrying deodar logs was stopped at Ashiret. He said two persons, including the truck driver, had been
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ISLAMABAD: Work on Gilgit-Shandur-Chitral highway project would be initiated next year, said Gilgit-Baltistan Governor Raja Jalal Hussain Maqpoon here. According to Radio Pakistan, the governor said the federal government was giving top priority to development of GB and had sanctioned a number of projects, mostly in energy sector. He said the completion of the Gilgit-Chitral
PESHAWAR: The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa is home to an extensive variety of wildlife, including over 50 species of mammals, 42 species of reptiles and several hundred species of birds. However, as the province’s human population grows and encroaches on animal territory, the two have found themselves at odds in what could be called a human-wildlife
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CHITRAL: The first ever solar-powered drinking water supply scheme in Chitral has been completed at Singoor by the Public Health Engineering Department. Executive Engineer Muhammad Yaqub said a 10-foot-wide and 180-foot deep well was dug near Doctors Colony to supply 5,000 gallons water per hour to the consumers. The solar-powered system pumps 40,000 gallons of
