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CHITRAL, Jan 5: A small gathering of workers and activists of the Pakistan People Party (PPP) Chitral gathered at the town hall to celebrate the 85th birth anniversary of party founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on Monday. The gathering was presided over by senior vice-president of the party Syed Burhan Shah Advocate. The participants, including representatives

CHITRAL, Jan 5: The residents of Koh union council have expressed their anguish over the appointment of people from other districts on class-IV posts in the under-construction Golen Gol hydropower project. In a meeting chaired by naib district chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Chitral, Maulana Akhunzada Rahmatullah, the residents alleged that Senator Zahid Khan of Awami National

CHITRAL, Jan 4: The passengers leaving for Peshawar via the Lowari tunnel on Saturday morning were humiliated by the NHA and the Korean company staff. The provincial government had announced that the tunnel would be opened for two full days on Jan 4 and 5. However, when the passengers reached the tunnel early on Saturday

ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: The treason trial of former President Gen Pervez Musharraf and his recent heart problem has sent shock waves among the people of Chitral – the only constituency in the country fully supportive of the former military strongman. A relatively unimportant mountainous district for most of the other political parties, the popularity of

ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: Though the government had announced that the Lowari tunnel will remain open for two full days per week on Saturdays and Sundays, it was opened to traffic only for three hours on Saturday. A police official at the Drosh police station told ChitralToday on phone that the tunnel was opened at 12