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Protest held against fare hike

PESHAWAR, Dec 3: There has been an arbitrary incerase in transport fares on Chitral-Peshawar and Chitral-Islamabad routes with the change of the Lowari tunnel\’s opening timings. On Monday, a large number of people from Chitral held a protest demonstration at Sher Shah Soori Road in Peshawar, and asked the government to take action against the

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Man dies inside Lowari tunnel

CHITRAL, Dec 3: A man died of suffocation inside the Lowari tunnel on Monday afternoon. Attiqur Rahman of Kohat was coming to Chitral from Upper Dir when he fainted after travelling hardly one kilometre inside the tunnel. He was rushed to the civil hospital in Drosh where he was pronounced dead. The deceased was coming

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Besieged IGP airlifted

GILGIT, Dec 2: Inspector General of Gilgit-Baltistan Police Usman Zakria was airlifted from a village near Giglit after protesters besieged him, demanding that a religious cleric arrested for fanning sectarianism should be released. Sheikh Nayyar Abbas of Majlis-i-Wahdat-i-Muslimeen was detained during an overnight police raid at the Nomal valley under the Maintenance of Public Order.

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