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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 […]

MASTUJ: People of Mastuj, Laspur and Yarkhun on Monday blocked the Shandur road by staging a sit-in at Mastuj bridge as the deadline they had set for the government to make progress on construction of roads to their areas ended. A large number of people earlier gathered in the Mastuj bazaar from where they moved

CHITRAL: The power utility company has started pruning tree branches touching transmission lines in Chitral town. PESCO’s Subdivisional officer Engineer Sami Ullah said cutting of the tree branches would be carried out four hours every day. He said the objective of the drive was to save the lines and transformers from being damaged. He said

PESHAWAR: Former provincial minister and PPP leader Salim Khan on Friday regretted that the PTI government has not proposed or allocated funds for any development project in the two most backward districts of Chitral. Speaking at a press conference at Peshawar Press Club, he said the government even dropped a number of projects for Chitral