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Walk held to raise awareness of natural calamities and minimize their hazards

October 8, 2017

CHITRAL: The district administration and the District Disaster Management Unit (DDMU) organized an awareness walk in Chitral in connection with the National Disaster Awareness Day on Sunday. The walk was organized on the 12th anniversary of the devastating 2005 earthquake in northern Pakistan, including Azad Kashmir, that left over 70,000 people dead and more than […]

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Mobile phone towers: landowners being deprived of rent by vested interest groups

October 4, 2017

When the private mobile phone service providers started installing the BTS towers, the local people were never told that under the law there would be a lease agreement between the company and the owner of the land on which a tower was to be erected. The local people welcomed the companies for launching the mobile

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Nursing student critical after falling from hospital building

October 3, 2017

PESHAWAR: A nursing student from Laspur valley of Upper Chitral sustained critical injuries after falling from the fifth floor of the Khyber Teaching Hospital in Peshawar on Monday. Sources told ChitralToday that Nusrat Bibi, daughter of Niat Murad Khan, was preparing for her exam while sitting on the fifth floor of the building along with other

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First unit of Golen Gol powerhouse should be given to Chitral

September 30, 2017

While the federal government is all set to inaugurate the first unit of 36 megawatt of the Rs30 billion worth Golen Gol Hydropower Project at the end of this year, local people fear they will not get electricity from the powerhouse to overcome the prolonged power crisis on a priority. Officials in the federal government

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Residents compelled to construct suspension bridge on their own

September 27, 2017

BANG: The locals for long have been building a bridge in Patrangaz village in every autumn but it washed away in the spring when the water level in the river increases. Due to the absence of a bridge to facilitate the area people to commute between the villages on both sides of the river,

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