CHITRAL: The death toll from the devastating earthquake rose to 27 in Chitral as reports of casualties continued pouring in. Besides, thousands of houses have collapsed or rendered dangerous for living after developing cracks. The main Chitral-Mastuj road was closed at different places but the Chitral-Peshawar road was open after removal of debrise from a […]
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There are reports of rising death toll and damages to houses and other buildings. At the moment, people in most parts of the valley are in panic and living in the open fearing more tremors. It was also feared that many people remained stuck on roads that have been blocked due to falling stones and
While police, Rangers and the army were on their toes in most parts of the country to maintain peace during Ashura, the Chitral police were kept busy to provide VVIP protocol to the commissioner of Malakand, Mr Usman Gul, who was on a visit to the district. Instead of having rest on the holiday, Mr
File photo[/caption]Due to the rain that continued for about seven hours, the temperature plummeted to four degrees centigrade while humidity in the air was 82 per cent. The Pakistan meteorological department has forecast widespread rain/thunderstorm accompanied by gusty winds the Malakand division of which Chitral is a district. Due to the weekend and Muharram holidays,
RESHUN, Oct 23: The FWO repaired the damaged road at Reshun and opened traffic on the Chitral-Mastuj road on Friday. The Chitral-Mastuj road was blocked at different points when rain and flooding from streams hit the main road on Oct 19. The continuous erosion of the hillock near Reshun into the road hampered the reopening
