ATR �42-500 Service to Chitral

The day when ATR-Turbo start its service to Chitral would be and the epoch making event in the history of Chitral. The day was also historical when the first Fokker arrived here in Chitral in some decades back. During the reign of MMA Chitral is going to be open, to whole world via tunnel and as well as through by air, the PIA Service was little bit disturbed because of the cancellation of Fokker service in Pakistan. The people here Chitral felt satisfaction and relief after this great news about PIA new service and also praising the MMA govt. and their achievement in this regard. Because of the common men is not aware of the ground realities. Why the Fokker service stopped? It is because of the Multan Clash, where more than fifty people were killed including some high-ups also, on the next day Federal Cabinet decided to cancel all the Fokker services within Pakistan after the sacrifice of these people. And to replace all the Fokker Aero planes within Pakistan was really a top-level decision. We the people of Chitral are ready to give the credit to the present provincial govt. if this would be able to force PIA authorities to reduce the fares in such a situation when the Lawari Pass is closed, PIA authorities shouldn�t increase the rate of fares, because here in Chitral, the people are not travel through PIA as an enjoyment because we don�t have any other options. Here in Chitral we don�t need any club or first class seat and the fares from Chitral to Peshawar Rs, 2070/- from Peshawar to Chitral Rs, 2370. In Chitral every body knows that only middle class and poor people are living here, no aristocrats and bourgeois are living here, so our suggestion in this regard is that this entire first class seat should be converted into economy class, so common man can get full benefit from it. The economy class fares have also been increased from 1470 to 1740 and from Peshawar to Chitral it was 1680 and now it is 1990 Rs, These fares are definitely out of the range of common man. If the fares remained the same, then PIA service will only become the service of economically great people, as it always that claims that � Great People to Fly with�. In Chitral majority of the people are poor so they would die without any transport, medical and educational facilities. If government could not able to provide basic facilities, then at least reduce the present PIA fares. Other wise the common man would revolt against this tyrant government officials, if the dissatisfaction and deprivation among the people persist, that would certainly put in danger the existence of our beloved country. The government should think to provide an actual relief to the common man of the whole country in general and for the people of Chitral in particular.

Bashir Hussain Azad
Chitral.