The other day I was at a  Mobile market in Peshawar sadar bazaar. I saw an old Chitrali man buying a mobile phone for a young boy with him. He was a plain man with a long white beard. He either being unaware of the market rates of mobiles  or trusting his Chitrali  brothers came to a Chitrali mobile dealer's shop. May be he could not speak Pashto. So he came to him.  And what i Saw.....!  The dealer sold a mobile phone for Rs.2400 to him which had a market price of Rs 2100. I was very upset and disheartened and came to the old man. He was from Oveer and the boy was his nephew. He came to a Chitrali brother trusting him and the dealer 'brother'  looted him. There are some other Chitrali mobile dealers in the Sadar bazaar and i went to them and asked the rate of that particular mobile. I was not wrong.

                            

The point which i want to make is that we Chitralis are fast losing our virtues of honesty, sincerity, truthfulness and trust worthiness. We have been well known for our peaceful and social attitude. But now gradually we are losing all these virtues. We must reject those changes which threaten our characteristic virtues. People and even the whole nation has a great respect for our virtues of kindness, love, peace and much more....So let's  keep them up, enjoy them and we must bear in mind that only people with such virtues build the nation's pillar deep and lift them to the sky.

 

Atta Ur Rehman

Morder, Chitral