CHITRAL, Kurrent News: District leadership of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Wednesday rejected the former district nazim’s remarks about cut in the wheat quota for the district.
In a statement, former district nazim Maghfirat Shah had asked the authorities to slash wheat quota for the district. Addressing a press conference, PPP leaders including Muhammad Zahir Shah, Saifuddin and Haji Khan asked the former nazim to better keep quite if can not work in the interest of Chitral. They said that a quota of 0.15 million bags had been set for 200,000 population of the district during the rule of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. They said the present PPP government had doubled that quota owing to increase in population.
“It is strange that the former nazim did not raise the issue during the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal government. Now he is opposing the people’s friendly policies of the PPP government,” Zahir Shah said.
He said Maghfirat Shah remained district nazim for four years and if the quota was misused then he should have raised the issue at some proper forum. The PPP leaders said the increased wheat quota would help resolve the food shortage in the area, the largest district of the province.
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