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DCO Chitral warns the profiteers

By Zahiruddin

CHITRAL: DCO Chitral Mutasim Billah Shah has said that the illegal profiteers will be dealt with an iron hand during the holy month of Ramazan and no leniency will be shown to those found involved in it. Addressing the meeting of district price control committee here on Wednesday in his office, he said that a comprehensive system has been evolved to arrest the price hike in the market and no one will be able to escape. He asked the price magistrates to submit report on the price control activities on daily basis so that the provision of the commodities of daily use could be ensured on the controlled prices. He said that the prices of the commodities have been rationalized and no any excuse of the profiteers will be accepted under any circumstance. The DCO asked the consumers to extend full cooperation to the administration by reporting to it the names of profiteers. On this occasion, the officials of revenue and food department and the president of Traders union and other representatives were present.

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JI president wants solution of people's problems

Chitraltimes Report

CHITRAL: The district president of Jamaat-e-Islami Chitral Moulana Ghulam Mohammad has said that the residents of Mulkhow and Torkhow tehsils of Chitral face severe problems in the sectors of health and education. Talking to the local journalists here on Wednesday after his tour to the tehsils, he said that the government seems not be earnest in the solution of the problems of the people. He said that the hospitals are being run without doctors, medicines and equipments for diagnosis and the schools are without teaching staff. He said that access to health and education facilities is the basis right of the people and no one can deny it. He demanded of the government to remove the acute shortage of staff in the schools and hospital of the area before they come to the roads to register their protest.