QWP elects office-bearers

CHITRAL, Nov 26: Abdul Wali Khan Advocate was elected as Chairman Qaumi Watan Party’s Chitral chapter here on Sunday. [caption id="attachment_5884" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Abdul Wali Khan Advocate"][/caption] The members of the party also elected Zafar Hayat Advocate as general secretary, Abdul Hameed Advocate as senior vice-president, Khwaja Amanullah as information secretary, Irshad Mukarar as president tehsil Chitral and Afsar Ali as general secretary of tehsil Chitral. The office-bearers of the party for Mastuj will be elected after proper consultation with the local people. The public meeting to elect the office-bearers in Chitral was held under the chair of Subadar Major retired Abdu Ghaffar while Bakht Baidar Khan MPA was chief guest. Addressing on the occasion, the speakers hailed services of Aftab Sherpao and his family. They said during his chief ministership Aftab Sherpao launched a helicopter service between Dir and Drosh besides laying a transmission line of electricity from Dir to Chitral to connect Chitral to the national grid. Irshad Mukarar alleged that the district administration and line departments had committed a corruption of Rs1.5 billion. The speakers said Chitral had the potential of producing 13,000 megawatt electricity but unfortunately no leader had done anything to exploit the potential. They said if QWP was elected it would fully utilize the rich natural resources of Chitral fore the benefit of its people. They said Chitral will get billions of rupees as royalty for the power generation. [caption id="attachment_5888" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Bakht Baidar Khan"][/caption] Those who spoke on the occasion were Abdul Wali Advocate, Hameed Ahmad Advocate, Bakht Baidar former MPA, Khwaja Amanullah, Afsar Ali, Irshad Mukarar, Faqir Hussain president Labor Wing QWP, Iftikhar Hussain president QWP Charsadda and Subadar Major retired Abdul Ghaffar. A large number of people attended the public meeting.—GH Farooqui]]>