CHITRAL: Lower Chitral deputy commissioner Mohsin Iqbal has said that Shaheed Osama Warraich Park will be built as the most attractive spot in the city to provide state-of-the-art facilities to children, youth and women.

Inaugurating some of the facilities in the under-construction public park here the other day, he said that the park was outsourced to a private party for a period of 10 years to provide maximum facilities and recreation tools to it.

He said that the park was the first of its kind in the town situated at an ideal place on the bank of Chitral River, facing Chitral Gol National Park on one side and Terich Mir, the highest peak of Hindu Kush, on the other.

Mr Iqbal said that the party had been made duty-bound as per agreement to provide all the recreational facilities of advanced version to the park which enkindled the memories of Shaheed Osama Warraich, who served there as deputy commissioner.

He said that the construction work of its infrastructure was nearing completion at a cost of Rs25 million. He directed to erect a bulwark along the river to protect the park from inundation of the river in summer season.

Local elders and officers of various government departments also attended the ceremony.

VISIT: Provincial minister for food Mohammad Zahir Shah Toru has alleged that attempts are afoot to make PTI founding chairman Imran Khan to bow down before the establishment, but insisted that this fascism will come to an end sooner than later.

Talking to reporters during his visit to Chitral on Wednesday, he claimed real change was the objective of the jailed PTI leader, which had earned him the ‘historical’ mass support.

Mr Toru urged the powers that be to realise the gravity of the situation and led the democracy take its course. He claimed PTI had the right to govern the country as it was given “absolute majority” in the February 8 elections.

Mr Toru said the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had always given an unparalleled support to PTI. He insisted the party had transformed the province during its three consecutive terms at the helm.

Published in Dawn, September 26th, 2024