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PESHAWAR, Dec 5: The provincial development working party (PDWP0 has approved 33 development projects costing Rs14.35 billion under the KPK government’s annual development programme for the current fiscal year. One of the projects relates to the construction of the judicial complex in Chitral at a cost of Rs955 million. The projects were approved by the

PESHAWAR, Dec 5: The election tribunal here on Thursday completed the hearing of arguments about the legality of the two-man commission by the lawyers of sitting MPA Ghulam Muhammad and his runner-up Sardar Hussain over the recounting of rejected and postal ballot papers. The arguments were initiated after the MPA raised the objection that the

CHITRAL, Dec 4: The project director of the National Highway Authority (NHA) here on Wednesday said that opening the under-construction Lowari tunnel for more than two days after two weeks was not possible due to the speedy work continuing on the mega project. Speaking at a seminar here, the NHA project director, Hameed Hussain, said:

ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: Rehmat Aziz Chitrali, a Khowar language poet from Chitral, has been awarded with “The Pakistan Barnstar of National Merit” by Wikimedia Foundation for his work on promoting Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Chitral-related topics on Wikipedia. Rehmat Aziz Chitrali clinched this award on December 2, 2013, for his articles about the history of Chitral,

BOONI, Dec 4: The people of Mastuj subdivision have announced their decision to stage a sit-in, from December 5, against rampant corruption in the C&W, irrigation and public health departments and the government’s failure to hold an investigation into the public allegations. The arrangements for the hunger strike were finalized by Tanzeem Haqooq Awam Mastuj