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CHITRAL, Oct 18: After about three year, work on the under-construction Lowari Tunnel has started again, it was learnt here on Thursday. On the other hand, reports said the Executive Committee on National Economic Council (ECNEC) has also approved the revised design of the tunnel from rail to road tunnel that will now cost a

GAHKUCH (GHIZER), Oct 18: The transporters here closed traffic on the Chitral-Ghizer road in protest against what they said the highhandedness of the excise and taxation department of Gilgit-Baltistan. The transporters said that the department was harassing the transporters in on different pretexts like checking papers of non-customs-paid vehicles and it had become impossible for

PESHAWAR, Oct 17: Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has approved Rs157 million for improvement and widening of Mastuj-Borghil Road in Upper Chitral. The project will be executed as a non-Annual Development Programme (ADP) scheme, it has been learnt. The 135 kilometres long road from Mastuj to the Boroghil valley in the extreme north of

[/caption] Traders of both New and Shahi bazaars thanked Shahzada Khalid Pervez of the All-Pakistan Muslim League (APML) for taking personal interest in resolving the issue. The old transformer developed fault a week back after which the power supply to the business center remained disrupted. Shahzada Pervez, however, arranged a new transformer on a priority

CHITRAL, Oct 17: The District Youth Forum here on Wednesday strongly condemned police failure to arrest the killers of a schoolgirl even after the passage of many months. The meeting of the forum was held under the chairmanship of its president Manzoor Ahmad here. The meeting, unanimously, condemned the brutal assassination of the girl at Ovir