YARKHUN: The flooding river Yarkhun has swept away a bridge between Sholkoch and Wasum river, locals told ChitralToday. The bridge connected different villages on both sides of the river such as Sholkoch and Wasum. The pedestrian bridge had been in poor shape for years abd despite repeated appeal by the locals the government failed to […]
RESHUN: The Chitral-Mastuj road was blocked at Reshun after river Yarkhun started eroding land and houses at Shader area of Reshun on Friday. About 13 families were affected in the fresh erosion that the river started when its volume increased with fast melting of glaciers upstream. Earlier in the day, people living in the area
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AYUN: As glaciers continued melting fast in Upper Chitral, the volume of water in the river Chitral has increased and is overflowing in many areas in Lower Chitral. Damages from the river flooding have already been reported from Upper Chitral, especially from Reshun, where the river started eroding land and houses, promoting the residents to
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CHITRAL: MPA Molana Hidayatur Rehman of Chitral has got allocated Rs8 million from public funds for his religious seminary located in Kari village, sources told ChitralToday. They said after allocation of the funds, work order was recently issued by the Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) to a contractor after inviting tenders to start renovation and repair
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RESHUN: The river Yarkhun has again started eroding houses and private land in Shader locality of Reshun due to the callous attitude of the government towards the destruction of the village by the flooding river. Local people told ChitralToday that so far seven houses have been affected and their inhabitants managed to evacuate to safer
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CHITRAL: The residents of Upper Chitral have asked the government to take swift action for the rehabilitation of roads and irrigation channels damaged by glacial lake outburst flooding (GLOF) in various areas of the district. Social figure Fayyaz Ahmad and other elders of Yarkhun Valley said that floods in various seasonal streams had washed away
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PESHAWAR: In a bid to promote female education in the province, Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has decided in principle to provide transport facility to girl students of government schools in remote areas under the Parents Teachers Council (PTC) funds. He directed the Elementary & Secondary Education Department to formulate a mechanism for the
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MASTUJ: Flooding in Pasum Gol between Chinar and Chuinj villages on Tuesday night blocked the main road to Yarkhun. The flood also blocked the Yarkhun river for some time, prompting the district administration to issue an alert to people living along the river to evacuate Rescue 1122 on Wednesday said its staff managed to build
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DROSH: People of Drosh on Tuesday blocked the Chitral-Peshawar road and observed a shutter-down strike against prolonged power outages in Drosh. The protest, as announced earlier, was organized by the nazims forum at Drosh Chowk. After the protesters blocked the only road connecting Chitral with the down districts for hours, Assistant Commissioner Abdul Haq reached
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PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday directed the settlement office Chitral to process applications lodged by individual landholders for rectification of their settlement records. The high court, however, restrained the settlement office and the provincial government from passing a final order and concluding the settlement process. These directions were issued by the high
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