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CHITRAL, Aug 8: The Government Degree College Chitral, the largest educational institution in the district, bagged all the top district positions in the FSc annual examination 2014 held under the BISE Peshawar. Abdul Hakim, son of Umera Khan of Morder, stood first with 924 marks, Qazi Taufeeq Ahmad, s/o Qazi Sharif Ahmad of Broze second

CHITRAL, Aug 7: The students of Government College Chitral are facing an acute shortage of drinking water. Talking to this correspondent, a number of students said the college campus was supplied water through the electric water pump which remained inoperative for the last three months due to the low voltage of electricity. Kashif Hayat, a

CHITRAL, Aug 6: The water level in the Chitral river is continuously rising threatening a number of villages on its banks. In Chitral, the river is cutting the main road to Mastuj, Booni and Shandur, district jail, grain godown, the professional development centre of Aga Khan University, Denin officer colony, houses and hundreds of acres of land. The

TIMERGARA, Aug 4: The residents of Shehzadi village on Monday blocked Timergara-Chitral road at Ashari Gat for over two hours against Pesco’s failure to restore power supply to the village even after about three weeks of its suspension due to a faulty transformer. A large number of people, especially those returning from Chitral, remained stuck

CHITRAL, Aug 4: The District Headquarter Hospital (DHQ) Chitral, which is the only major government healthcare centre catering to patients from across the valley, faces an acute shortage of electricity and remains without power for almost 20 hours daily. When the light comes for a few hours, its voltage is so low that it hardly