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ISLAMABAD, Jan 20: About 150 people from different parts of Chitral on Monday afternoon held a protest demonstration in Islamabad’s D. Chowk demanding the daily opening of the under-construction Lowari tunnel in the winter. The protest was arranged by Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leader and former MNA from Chitral, Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali. The motorcades of the

RESHUN, Jan 20: While protesting people here were assured that their first and main demand of removing the in-charge of the Reshun powerhouse would be implemented tomorrow, they refused to disperse and instead staged a sit-in at Ramdas Chowk. After the participants of the rally numbering about 4,000 reached here from Booni on Monday evening,

JUNALI KOCH, Jan 20: Thousands of people have started a protest rally towards the Reshun powerhouse to close it down for its management’s discriminatory treatment with the domestic consumers and wide-scale corruption. On Monday morning, as planned, thousands of people gathered at Booni Chowk on the call of the Tehreek Huqooq-e-Awam. Later, they started the

ISLAMABAD, Jan 20: A delegation of JUI Chitral met the newly inducted federal ministers of the party in Islamabad and apprised them of Chitral issues on Sunday. A press release issued by the JUI Chitral said that the delegation requested Federal Minsiter Akram Khan Durrani and minister of state Maulana Ghafoor Haideri to also take

CHITRAL, Jan 20: Another Chitrali labourer lost his life due to unavailability of medical care at the under-construction Lowari tunnel on Sunday. Reports said Maqsood Ahmed, a resident of Ashiret, was working with the Korean AMBU Company as a machine operation. After working hours, he was cleaning the machine when some parts of it fell