An open letter to district nazim

On the occasion of this highly happy memorable moment myself and other brothers and sisters congratulate you and wish you all the good luck. Success is in every step you take make sure you keep the best balance among every single inhabitant of Chitral for their betterment. May Allah grand you a lot of compassion, tolerance and pluralist approach (Ameen). Honourable Nazim, our beautiful Chitral is blessed with the absolute meaning of Islam that is PEACE. You may have noticed from the last many years there has been unrest in many cities of our homeland Pakistan in which many lives were lost, properties destroyed and that is ongoing. By the grace of almighty Allah, our beautiful Chitral is still peaceful and brotherhood and sisterhood in Chitral is an example to others. I do not feel any hesitation to say that this credit is going to our Ulema, the great people of civil society and the leaders of our communities and finally the district and the local government. We have high expectations from you that you will maintain this blessed and unique political and religious harmony and mutual understanding among the two schools of thought of Islam in Chitral. Respected sir, I got many opportunities to meet and sit down with your late father Haji Mohammad Shah in the company of my late father Subedar Abdullah Shah of Charun-Oweer during my student life in Chitral. Your visionary father was a true patriotic Chitrali, a diverse and pluralistic personality and was a true best friend of my late father. Many times your beloved father took us to your residence in Chitral for lunch or dinner, so we expect you to carry on your father’s thought and play your role in maintaining peace in the area, as you said yourself yesterday after taking oath in the office of NDCC, “I would be working to eliminate the curse of ethnicity in Chitral and put the valley on the path of development and progress.” What a wonderful start and statement to start with. Diversity, multiculturalism, pluralism and mutual respect of each other is the only way to go forward.  Another important thing I would like to include is education. As we all know the benefits of quality education so we hope and pray that you will encourage and help the public and private sector collaboration in education in Chitral so that our future generations have a better access especially in professional education. I remember when you was a Nazim a few years back unfortunately a very professional and renowned institute’s permanent building was being denied in Chitral on some useless basis .Here I am not accusing you but yes there were factors involved and thus unfortunately we missed that huge opportunity to get benefit for our Chitral. We humbly request you as a head of our local government that this time you should try to restore that educational building as our Holy Prophet (PBUH) said just summary for education go even if it is available in China so why we deny and refuse if it is available in Chitral.  Hounourable Nazim unfortunately in our society it is a false and baseless argument and point that our Ulema (religious leaders ) are not enough educated and cannot carry out the government tasks and they are fundamentalists and against modern education. We have Dr Enayatullah Faizi and Mulana Sher Aziz in Chitral and Mr Sirajul Haq sahib (central amir of JI) in Pakistan. We never hear these scholars talking against modern education, their articles and publications are internationally recognized and accepted. We have strong hope and pray that you have to prove this doing the right stuffs in Chitral with your Ulema’s team otherwise our Ulemas will always face this false allegation and this is a unique opportunity to wash out this stain from the forehead of our Ulema.  Lastly, respected sir on this very important occasion I want to thank the chief coordinator and elected member of PTI Mr Rehmat Ghazi sahib and his fellow councillors for their great cooperation and for maintaining the law and order situation during the polling also my great regards to other parties councillors for their patience and respecting each other’s opinions  Allah Ham Sab ka Hamu Naasir Rahay.  Sincerely,  Gul Jee Richmond Hill Canada. ]]>