CHITRAL: Traders, shopkeepers and vendors started a shutter-down strike in Chitral on Wednesday saying the protest would continue till the acceptance of their demands. Meanwhile, the drivers\’ union also announced to observe a strike from Thursday in solidarity with the traders. All bazaars, markets and other business centres, including vegetable and fruit shops, remained closed. […]
BOONI: The union council (UC) Booni-II spent an amount of Rs0.5 million on the construction of a road from the local bazaar to Booni Lasht. The construction of the road will facilitate scores of families living in Booni Lasht who had no jeepable road to link with the main road in Booni bazaar. Local residents
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CHITRAL: A division bench of Peshawar High Court on Tuesday suspended and declared illegal the imposition of a tax on the transport out of potatoes from the Lotkoh valley. The tax was imposed by the tehsil municipal administration of Chitral a few months ago. After the imposition of the tax, the political representatives of the
CHITRAL: An official of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) here called upon the people of Chitral to avail of loans being provided by different banks to promote small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the valley. Kamran Khan, the deputy chief manager of SBP Peshawar, was addressing a gathering of people at the town hall
LAHORE: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has synchronised a second unit of the 108MW Golen Gol hydropower project and connected it to the national grid through the most crucial transmission line it laid from Chitral to Timergara. “We have successfully synchronised the second unit of 36MW and adding the power to the national
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