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Release of daughter from the hands of abductors appealed

By Zahiruddin

CHITRAL: Shah Nawaz Khan, a resident of Kalash valley Rumbur has appealed the government to recover his daughter Shazia from the clutches of abductors who taken her to the Nooristan of Afghanistan. Talking to newsmen at Chitral Press Club here on Tuesday, he said that some years ago, Hafizullah of the village but soon after started persecuting and harassing her married his daughter. He alleged that they kept her in virtual confinement and did not allow her to meet her parents and brothers for more than two months against which he moved the local court who got her freed and handed her to him. He said that in the meantime, he filed a suit in the court for decree of cancellation of marriage deed to save her daughter from her abnormal husband and cruel in-laws who treated her inhumanly. He said that the case is being heard in the court but some two months ago, Amanullah, the father-in-law of his daughter broke open his house in the mid-night supported by nine armed persons who abducted her daughter at gunpoint. He said that the local police did not take the matter earnestly and wasted a lot of time by not registering the case which helped the accused to fled her daughter to Nooristan area of Afghanistan which has common borders with Kalash valley of Chitral district. He expressed his concern and apprehension about the condition of his daughter in Nooristan. He said that though some relatives of the accused have been arrested by the local police and sent to judicial lock-up, but his daughter continues to suffer at the hands of perpetrators. He demanded that the government should contact the Afghan government to seek the release of his abducted daughter.

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TMA Chitral employees want their salaries released

By Zahiruddin

CHITRAL: The former employees of TMA Chitral have demanded of the government to reinstate them in their services forthwith to save their family members from hunger and starvation. Talking to the local newsmen here on Tuesday, Munajat Khan, Mohammad Ayub and other said that they worked as compressing machine operators with the defunct district council whose services were transferred to TMA Chitral some seven years ago with devolution of power. They said that their days of misery started seven months ago when their services were transferred to district government but the district government refused to accept their services on the plea that the machinery were not in running condition. They said that they are unable to draw their salaries neither from TMA nor the district government.