HUNZA: In this district of Gilgit-Baltistan flanked by soaring mountain ranges and glaciers, plastic shopping bags are now illegal. In late April, the provincial government banned their use, purchase, export or import in an effort to cut plastic waste and pollution, and rolled out first deliveries of cloth shopping bags. Now those hang in shops, […]
CHITRAL: There are complaints about large scale irregularities in the measurement and recording of land by the revenue department as the deadline to end the process approaches. The residents have asked the Revenue Department to extend the deadline for land settlement for another month to save them from any possible embarrassment. \”The revenue officials have
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MASTUJ: With the launch of the protest by people of Mastuj, Yarkhun and Laspur demanding construction of roads to their respective areas, there have been questions raised by different quarters about its timing. Leaders of the local chapter of the PTI say it is politically motivated and being launched by some people to malign the
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PESHAWAR: Minority MPA from Chitral Wazirzda has claimed that the PTI government will launch work on the construction of Garam Chashma road in the coming fiscal year. He was talking to member District Council Chitral from Karimabad Muhammad Yaqub and PTI Garam Chashma leader Sher Jahan Sahil at the MPA hostel here, says a press
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BOONI: The federal government has allocated Rs1 billion in its budget 2019-20 for construction of Shandur road, said additional deputy commissioner (ADC) Upper Chitral Muhammad Irfanuddin in a statement. He said the same road with the name of Gilgit-Chitral-Chakdara road was already included in the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. The ADC claimed that
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