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  CHITRAL, Aug 9: The leaders of all political parties Thursday asked the district administration to show no leniency to drug-traffickers arrested recently in the district. A meeting to this effect was held here on Thursday at the office of the district coordination officer Rehmatullah Wazir and attended by Muhammad Hakim of Pakistan People’s Party,

 After acceding to Pakistan in 1947, Chitral should have been made a part of the federally administered Northern Areas of Pakistan with which it has strong cultural and linguistic links. The majority of Pakistanis believe that Chitral is a part of the Northern Areas (now Gilgit-Baltistan). Only a few know that it is, in fact,

ZAIT (CHITRAL), Aug 9: Utility stores were established to provide daily-use commodities to the public at controlled rates. Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani said at the inauguration of Ramazan Package at a Utility Store on July 20 that the middle class would benefit from the subsidy given at Utility Stores across