Inclusion of Chitrali in cabinet hailed

Inclusion of
Chitrali in
NWFP cabinet
hailed
By ZarAlam Khan

ISLAMABAD: People of Chitral have hailed the induction
of Pakistan People's Party MPA from the district in the NWFP
cabinet.
Talking to >>bs<>es<< in Islamabad, PPP leader Sultan Mehmood said
the district had not been given representation in the cabinet after
PPP founding chairman late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto included Qadir Nawaz
from Chitral in the provincial cabinet in the early 1970s.
He said appointment of Salim Khan, elected from PF-89 Chitral-1,
as minister for population welfare would not only end the sense of
deprivation and alienation of the people but would also help the
party regain its lost glory in the valley.
He thanked PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PPP NWFP
president Rahim Dad Khan for taking Mr Salim Khan in the
cabinet.
He said by including a senior worker in the cabinet, the PPP
had once again proved that it was the party of the poor and cared
for the welfare of backward areas as well as its own workers and
supporters.--Dawn

Work on Brep bridge begins

Work on Brep bridge begins

Work on the damaged bridge conneting the Yarkhun valley of upper Chitral has at last begin. The bridge on the river yarkhun between Brep and Dizg village was washed away in August 2006.
The project would be completed in two years at a cost of about Rs7 million.

WLLs out of order

Wireless local loops in Dizg villages have stopped working due to some technical faults for the last one week.
People of the arreasaid they remained disconnected with the outside world after the only communication link stopped work. A large number of people from the whole valley come to Dizg to phone their dear ones in other parts of the country and even abroad.
They called upon the government to order the PTCL to rectify the fault.