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Chitral Police foiled smuggling bid of wheat flour
By Zahiruddin
CHITRAL: Chitral police has foiled the attempt of smuggling
1794 bags of wheat flour from Chitral to Afghanistan via Arandu
border here on Thursday, sources said. Police has arrested all the
smugglers and registered cases against them under 16 MPO, 3/7 and
3/6 FSA. The police had earlier recovered 438 bags of the commodity
on Wednesday at Arandu. Police sources claimed that it was the
biggest ever halt of the commodity which were being carried on ten
trucks.
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Federal Govt reinstate the NA Compensatory
Allowance to CS.....ASAC
By Zahiruddin
CHITRAL: The president of All Servicemen Association Chitral
Lt Col (retd) Sardar Mohammad, general secretary Amanullah,
president of Chitral sub-division Khalil Ahmed and others have
demanded of the federal government to reinstate the Northern Areas
Compensatory Allowance to the personnel of Chitral Scouts which
they enjoyed from the year 1974 to 2005 and rid thousands of
families from economic trouble. Addressing a press conference here
on Wednesday, they said that in 1974, the then Prime Minister
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had sanctioned 25 percent of basic pay scale as
special allowance to the personnel of the civil armed forces in the
Northern Areas including Chitral Scouts. They said that the special
privilege was accorded to them because of the backwardness of the
area and the hard and inhospitable nature of the environment in
which they perform their duties. They said that after the revision
of pay scales in the year 2005, the employees of Chitral Scouts are
being denied NACA which is a sheer injustice with them. They said
that the abolishment of the allowance has also deprived those
employees who went on retirement after 2005 of a substantial amount
which they were entitled for at the time of retirement. They said
that it was the government of PPP in 1975 when the allowance was
granted and now it is again the rule of PPP when we demanding to
revive it. They demanded of prime minister to look into the matter
and issue orders to release the allowance with the arrears of three
years not only to the serving employees but also to those who have
been retired after 2005.
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