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Ex-MNA warns of countrywide protests

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

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Food crisis feared as NHA disallows 200 goods trucks to enter Chitral

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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Passengers facing prolonged troubles

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

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