CHITRAL, March 3: A large procession was taken out here on Friday against the MMA government in the province. It started from the Chew Bridge and ended at the Polo Ground.

The call for the rally was given by Advocate Abdul Wali Khan, the nazim of union council Koh, to register protest of the people of Chitral against the indifference of the MMA government to problems of the people of Chitral.

The speakers criticized MMA leaders and said that the people had reposed full confidence in the party in the last general elections but they had been disappointed due to mismanagement, corruption, nepotism and anarchy in the province. They said that the chief minister did not visit Chitral district in four years since assuming the job which was sufficient to prove the indifference of the government.

Mr Wali said that local members of the national and provincial assembly were more interested in postings and transfers of government officials and in contracts than in solving problems of the public.

He said that local MNA Maulana Chitrali hoodwinked the masses by projecting himself as ‘hero of the Lowari Tunnel project’ while the fact was that the announcement for the tunnel’s construction had been made by President Gen Musharraf long before Maulana Chitrali had been elected.

The speakers criticised the government for shifting the 106megawatt-hydel-power-station project to Shangla from Chitral at the behest of Minister of State Ameer Maqam.