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CHITRAL: Despite heavy snowfall in the mountains this year, no snow leopard could be spotted in the lower altitude areas, including Chitral Gol National Park. Shafiqullah Khan, the project manager of Pakistan Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Programme (PSLEP), said the wild animal had last been spotted five years ago in Chitral forests. Its long […]

BOONI: Tehreek Huqooq-e-Awam here on Sunday decided to delay for a month its Feb 12 long march to Golen Gol against the longstanding power crisis in the area. The decision was taken after MNA Moulana Abdul Akber Chitrali assured the Tehreek leaders at a meeting that a separate 10 megawatt transformer would be installed for

CHITRAL: Over 16,000 power consumers in upper Chitral have been facing frequent outages due to the old and faulty transmission lines and transformers though electricity is available at the Golen Gol hydropower station. People in Mastuj subdivision, now elevated to district, are without electricity since August 2015 when the 4.2MW hydropower station of Pakhtunkhwa Energy

CHITRAL: Peshawar High Court (PHC) has directed the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to submit a report about taxes being levied on passengers on the Chitral-Peshawar and Chitral-Islamabad routes. A bench of the PHC, comprising Justice Ikram Ullah and Justice Musarrat Hilali issued the direction while hearing a petition filed against the PIA chairman regarding

DROSH: Three persons observing a hunger strike against the district forest officer for allegedly denying them jobs as forest guards were shifted to the tehsil headquarters hospital after their condition deteriorated after about 40 hours in the hunger strike camp at Drosh bazaar. They included Muhammad Islam, Jamshex and Salimullah.