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International day of mother tongues held
By Zahiruddin
CHITRAL: The speakers in a function here on Sunday
reiterated their demand of imparting early childhood education in
mother language in Chitral and give considerable representation to
the Chitrali (khowar) language in the state-run electronic media.
Held under the auspices of Anjuman-e-Taraqqi Khowar, Chitral, the
function was in connection with the international day of mother
tongues. Eminent scholar and linguist Dr. Inayatullah Faizi,
Anjuman president Muhammad Yousuf Shahzad, eminent educationists
G.M. Hasrat and Moula Nigah spoke on the occasion. They said that
according to the conventions of United Nations General Assembly, it
is the basic right of indigenous people to receive basic education
and information in mother tongue and the concerned and it is
binding on the concerned states to provide the people with such
opportunities. They regretted that in Chitral, the situation is
deplorable despite the fact that it is a full-fledged language
spoken by more than half a million population residing in the belt
of Hindukush. They said that the language patronage of the
government in substantial magnitude to preserve their rich cultural
and folk heritage. Papers were read out on comparison of Chitrali
language with some developed languages of central Asia. They held
that many parallels can be drawn between chital and Persian due to
the proximity of the area with Afghanistan while many scholars of
Chital contributed to Persian as well which have been preserved in
printed form.
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Inhabitants of Drosh restored electric power on self-help basis
By Zahiruddin
CHITRAL: The residents of Drosh town called off their strike
on Sunday afternoon when they restored the power supply to the town
on self-help basis by repairing and filling the fissures of the
water channel of the power house. Union nazim of Drosh-II told
chitraltimes.com that more than two hundred persons took part in
the work for three days while small hydel development organization
(SHYDO) failed to do for three months leading to failure of power
supply to the town. He said that the power station had been closed
down by the SHYDO management for one week soon after its being
commissioned to work in November last. He regretted that no work
was started on the repair of the channel which forced the consumers
to resort to protests. Haji Muhammad Shifa, a member of the action
committee for restoration of power supply warned the government
that protest movement will be launched with full might if the
elements of SHYDO are not brought to book for their corruption in
the construction of the power station. He alleged that a large
scale bungling has taken place in the construction of the power
station by its substandard construction. Expressing his
astonishment over the indifferent attitude of the government
towards the situation, he said that no action was taken against the
site engineers and its contractors when it failed to work for a
week.
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