Proposed Lowari tunnel festival - Letter

Please refer to the news item published in Chitral Update regarding the recent session of the ditrict council and tehsil councils of Chitral and Mastuj, in which the members discussed organising a festival commemorating the completion of the Lowari tunnel.
The district governmnet reportedly is in the fore front in organising the festival. It may be mentioned that the same district government headed by the nazim belonging to Jamaat-i-Islami had opposed tooth and nail the holding of Jashn-i-Chitral recently on the ground that Chitral cannot afford the event when people in the neighbouring districts were being killed and dead bodies of Chitrali policemen and army jawans were brought home from the troubled areas.
Even one political representative had said that the proposed Jashan could have attracted terrorists not tourists.
I would like to ask the authorities concerned whether overnight law and order situation has changed in the neighbouring districts or it was just opposition for the sake of opposition because Jashan-i-Chitral was being organised by some NGOs and the provincial government led by the PPP.

Javed Karim,
email: chitraliasum99@yahoo.com