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Chitraltimes.com has got fresh images of kidnapped Greek Volunteer

From our Correspondent

CHITRAL: A four member delegation from Chitral headed by former Union Nazim Ayun Abdul Majeed returned from Afghanistan after holding talk with Taliban commanders to release the kidnapped Greek volunteer Engineer Athunasias Leurner. The delegation member Wazir Zada Kalash said while talking to chitraltimes.com that talk held in a cordial atmosphere with taliban leaders and it was move friendly then before. The kidnapped Greek volunteer has kept bear and look like a local Taliban. However, he is happy and healthy and has been kept in an open place. The Taliban have already withdrawn their demand of Rs.20 Million for the release of the Greek national. According to a source the Government of Pakistan is ready to release one Taliban leader Qari Rehmat Ullah for the release of the Greek volunteer. But Taliban insist to release two of their other fellows. The delegation is hopeful that the Greek volunteer will be freed soon and hectic negotiations are going on in this regards. It is pertinent to mention here that Greek volunteer was kidnapped in Sep 2009 by unknown masked men from Kalash valley Bumburate. The administration of chitraltimes.com has got fresh and first  images of the Greek volunteer Athunasias after his kidnapped.                                                             
 

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Chitral Border Police is being strengthened..... DCO

By Zahiruddin

CHITRAL: District coordination officer Chitral Rahmatullah Wazir said that Chitral is a sensitive district from strategic point of view which has a lengthy border of 380 km of porous border with Afghanistan and to effective check and monitor the cross border mobilization, district border police is being strengthened both in terms of men and material. Addressing on the occasion of badge installation ceremony for the newly promoted junior officers of the border police, he said that the provincial government has attached great importance with the force and has approved its regular service structure in the history of the force. He said that the force is being reorganized on modern lines to cope with the new challenges emerging in the aftermath of war on terror. Mr. Wazir said that the strength of the force is being enhanced to deploy to establish posts in all the 39 passes connecting Afghanistan which were unmanned in the past giving opportunity to the illegal entrants. He said that border police lines will be established in the district headquarters while fortresses will be erected in all the passes and important places of the district for the force personnel. He assured the gathering that much is in the store of the provincial government for the upgradation of the force due to its vital importance. On this occasion, he pinned the badges of the rank of subedar major on the shoulder of Maqbool Ali and subedar to Abdur Razaq, Sardar Hussain and Nasirullah.
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Chitral Police seized 151 Liters of local Liquor

By Zahiruddin

CHITRAL: Chitral Police foiled an attempt of smuggling a large quantity of liquor from Kalash valley to Chitral city in the late hours of Friday and recovered 151 litres of liquor which is said to be largest quantity of liquor ever halted in a single occasion. Sub-divisional police officer Shamsur Rahman told the local media here on Saturday that the SHO of Chitral police station Nisar Ahmed and his staff raided the house of a notorious smuggler Mujeebur Rahman of Orghoch village and recovered the liquor. He said that 2 kg of charas was also recovered while the accused made good his escape in the darkness of night. He said that one of the workers of the smuggler Ziaur Rahman has been arrested. He said that the DPO Muhammad Jaffar Khan has announced cash reward and commendation certificates for the raiding party of the police which also included lady constables.