He said people of Upper Chitral continued to suffer but local leaders of the PTI and Jamaat-e-Islami, who are coalition partners in the KP government, are playing dirty politics on the supply of electricity to Upper Chitral. PEDO did nothing to end the power crisis in the area and failed to reconstruct the damaged powerhouse. […]
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CHARUN: Participants of a protest meeting held in Charun today under Tehreek Huqooq e Awam decided to march towards Golen Gol on Feb 2 if Upper Chitral and Koh were not provided electricity by then. The representatives of people from Koh – from Ragh to Barenis – said they had already rejected an offer for
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ISLAMABAD: National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) organized a launching ceremony for its two newly-published books – Aangai and Chitral Ke Lok Geet – with the great musical performance by renowned folk singer Mansoor Ali Shabab from Chitral. Senator Usman Khan Kakar, Chairman Senate Functional Committee on Problems of Less Developed Areas, was the chief guest.
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BREP: A large number of people held a protest here on Sunday demanding the government re-arrest the alleged killer of a youth and his accomplice (wife of the deceased) to provide justice to the parents of the victim. This was the second such protest by the people of this far-off village in Upper Chitral after
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Over 15,000 houses located in Koh union council of Lower Chitral and most parts of Upper Chitral have been without electricity for the last three years when flashfloods washed away the PEDO-operated 4.5 megawatts Reshun powerhouse supplying them electricity. However, parts of the district connected with the Pesco transmission system are getting electricity after 36
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