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582:"Power up: Hydro project to light up 13,000 houses in Chitral"
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746:"Road link to Chitral village restored after four years"
480:"150 KV Micro Hydro Power House inaugurated in Chitral"
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618:"Ashuran Power House starts production in Kalam"
319:"Tar Patar finds light at the end of the tunnel"
129:rivers that drop steeply off soaring mountains.
241:of electricity from small hydropower projects.
927:. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
415:"KP govt implementing reform agenda: Khattak"
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164:such as road, bridges, water channels etc.
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443:"Work on EU-funded power project launched"
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261:in Pakistan for supplying electricity to
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