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Two Districts demands for Chitral

From our Correspondent

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Minister for Population Welfare, Saleem Khan has strongly demanded that District Chitral may be divided into two districts by giving the status of districts to the existing two sub divisions of the districts, adding that Chitral is the largest district of the province in terms of area, and its population is scattered in seven far flung and mountainous vallies due to which it has been very difficult for the local administration to smoothly run the administrative affairs of the district.

In a statement issued here he has said that the total area of Chitral is 14850 kilometers with a total population of about six lacs. Due to scattered population, peculiar geographical and seasonal condition the people of the far flung vallies faces numerous problems to have access to the district headquarter, therefore; it is the need of the hour to divide the district in to two, he demanded. A resolution to this effect will soon be filed in the provincial assembly, Khan added.