CHITRAL, Jan 13: Civil society, traders and drivers unions here have threatened to launch a protest move against the refusal of the National Highway Authority (NHA) to allow the passage of over 200 trucks carrying food items to Chitral through the Lowari tunnel. The trucks are waiting for the permission of the NHA authorities to […]
PESHAWAR, Jan 13: Former MNA Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitral here on Monday warned of a ‘countrywide’ protest if the government failed to ensure daily opening of the Lowari tunnel during the winter. “We are ready to start a long march from Chitral to the Lowari Tunnel and hold a protest demonstration outside the parliament house
MINGORA, Jan 12: Officials of the army engineering corps are making efforts to remove snow from Lowari Top to get the only land route to Chitral valley open to traffic. This road is the only link connecting Chitral district with rest of the country. According to a press release issued by ISPR Swat on Sunday,
CHITRAL, Jan 12: More than 200 trucks carrying food items to Chitral are stranded in the Dir side of the under-construction Lowari tunnel for the last two days after they were not allowed to pass through the tunnel by the National Highway Authority (NHA). Talking to this correspondent from Lowari, Haji Muhammad Zahir, the president
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CHITRAL, Jan 11: People reaching here from Peshawar and Islamabad through the under-construction Lowari tunnel narrated tales of suffering and inconvenience with long wait under the open sky on the southern portal of the passageway in the Dir side. They said that though the tunnel opened at 12 noon first transport going out of Chitral
