CHITRAL: The political parties and civil society organisations here the other day unanimously demanded of the provincial government to revisit the draft master plan of Chitral town to make it consistent with the aspirations and needs of the people and ground realities of the area.

In a joint meeting convened and presided over by the amir of Jamaat-i-Islami Lower Chitral Wajeehud Din, the meeting was participated by former district nazim Maghfirat Shah, Qari Jamal Abdul Nasir (JUI-F), Nizar Wali Shah (PPP), Shahid Ahmed (PTI), Mohammad Kausar advocate (PML-N), MI Khan Sarhadi (ANP), Faisal Kamal advocate (district bar), Noor Ahmed Khan (traders) and Sajjad Ahmed Khan (local bodies).

The participants expressed their strong reservations about the draft master plan and termed ittotally inconsistent with the topography of the town and aspirations and needs of the people.

They said the Lahore-based consultant did not bother to sit with the stakeholders to ascertain their sentiments views regarding the document of urban planning for their town and did it on the basis of `google map` only.

They said the unveiling of the draft master plan had sent shock waves across the town filling the people with apprehensions and anger, who are determined to resist its notification to any extent if their reservations were not removed.

They vowed that the activists of political parties of all shades and civil society will be united under one banner to get the master plan `corrected` by opposing the present one tooth and nail. Correspondent