Chitral -- Long awaited DSL equipment has been installed at the Chitral telephone exchange to provide broadband internet service to users and has been tested to be found in perfect working state, but the service is not being disseminated to users for the want of a VIP to come and inaugurate the service, CN learned from sources inside the telephone department.

 The culture of VIPsm is a curse which plagues Pakistan in general and Chitral in particular and inaugurations are the favorite hobby of 'VIPs'. It may be noted that one of the biggest projects in Chitral town ie the Chowni Bridge was built quietly by the Japanese some years ago without any inauguration and fanfare and completed in record time and allowed to be used by the public one fine morning, without any trumpeting, garlanding, thanking any VIPs. No body even got to know who the Japanese were. They came, did their job and went away without creating any fuss of any kind. Alas we did not learn any lesson from them and insist on continuing with our rotten customs.  -- CN report, 30 June 2011.

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