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Jashn-e-Chitral from October 11-15

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PESHAWAR: NWFP Minister for Sports, Culture and Tourism, Syed Aqil Shah, Monday said Jashn-e-Chitral would be held with traditional zeal and enthusiasm from October 11 to 15.

Programmes of tourist interest like tug-of-war, cultural music, poetry, traditional Chitrali dance and adventure tourism events and Chitral youth football Mela will also be included, he said.

This he said while presiding over a review meeting about arrangements for Jashn-e-Chitral in Peshawar. Besides others, Secretary Sports NWFP Sahibzada Fazle Amin, Director General Sports NWFP, Altaf Umerzai attended the meeting, said a handout.

Aqil said NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti would participate as the chief guest of Chitral Youth Football Mela and distribute prizes among the players. General Manager of Sarhad Tourism Corporation (STC) Mushtaq Khan informed the meeting that STC would introduce new track at Kalash valley as well as trout fishing competition for tourists on the occasion of Jashn-e-Chitral.

It might be the second big tourism event in NWFP after Shandur Mela. An organizing committee under the chairmanship of secretary for tourism was constituted with Muhammad Ali Shah as its organizing secretary while GM, STC, Director General Sports NWFP, a representative of NWFP Sports Department, two representatives of STC have also been included in the sub organizing committee established for arrangements on the occasion.

Syed Aqil Shah directed secretary for tourism and organizing secretary of the committee to present a detailed programme about Jashn-e-Chitral 2008 within a week time. The minister said the players participating in the mela should not exceed 25 years of age. He said NWFP Football Association would provide technical backup on the occasion of mela.

Syed Aqil Shah said a tourism resort would be developed at Thandiani, Abbottabad while Information Centers at various places of the province would also be set up. He said for holding the next Shandur Mela 2009 in a befitting manner, work would start from March next year and the road linking Chitral and Shandur would be widened while road from Chitral to Garam Chashma would also be repaired and widened..

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