CHITRAL: The Lowari tunnel was not opened for passengers due to about four to five feet of snow on the approach roads in both sides of the passageway on Monday. Passengers were stopped on both the portals due to which they faced trouble waiting amid snow and without any shelters. A number of passengers told ChiralToday correspondent […]
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ISLAMABAD: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) on Tuesday approved 24 projects, including the reconstruction of Chitral-Shandur road. The over 150-kilometre-long road will be widened and reconstructed at a cost of Rs19.1 billion by the federal government. The project will be completed in phases. The reconstruction of the road which links lower and upper parts
Passengers coming to Chitral from different parts of the country and going out of the district were stranded under the open sky as there was no heavy machinery to remove the trailer from the road. Former tehsil nazim Sartaj Ahmed told ChitralToday from the site that as night fell the passengers were facing immense hardship
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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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