1000 telephone disconnected for the last 10 days.
CHITRAL: Some 1000 telephone lines of PTCL has been damaged by Communication & Works department (C &W) during construction of By pass road. A cable consisting on 700 lines has been damaged last month as a result PTCL faced 2 million of lost and 700 consumers faced great hardships due to disconnecting of their telephone line. Now once again C&W damaged main cable of PTCL as a result telephone lines of Wapda (Pesco), airport, Met. Office, Civil Aviation, colleges, schools, government and non governmental organizations as well as domestics consumers are totally deprived from telephone facility for the last 10 days. General Manager Northern Telecommunication Region Muhammad Khalid deputed divisional Engineer Gul Zamin who visited the spot near Chew bridge and submitted an appeal before the court of justice to direct local police for lodging FIR against the concerned person ( C&W) department. Assistant business Manager Bakht Baidar alleged that I have sent so many applications to local police but they deny to lodge any FIR in this case. Social and political circle of Chitral have demanded from high ups of PTCL for restoring these hundred of telephone lines as well as taking action against Executive Engineer C &W for their negligence and damaging national property.