{"id":51947,"date":"2019-05-08T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T10:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=51947"},"modified":"2019-05-08T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T10:47:08","slug":"kp-govt-asked-to-rename-new-chitral-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-govt-asked-to-rename-new-chitral-districts.html","title":{"rendered":"KP govt asked to rename new Chitral districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chitral: Residents of Chitral have requested the government rename Lower Chitral district as Chitral and Upper Chitral as Mastuj in a bid to preserve the heritage and culture of the region, a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/hydropower-project-to-be-established-in-chitral.html\">Hydropower project to be established in Chitral<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In November 2018, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/chitrals-bifurcation-notified.html\">notified the bifurcation of Chitral<\/a> into two separate districts. At present, Upper Chitral comprises the Mastuj and Torkhow\/Mulkhow subdivisions.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad Yousuf, a lawyer hailing form Mastuj Town, wrote a letter to the provincial chief secretary. He said that the bifurcation is not in line with the wishes of the people.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that Mastuj is a household name and that the name of the main tehsil in the newly created district is also Mastuj. He added that even the literature of the area carries the name of Mastuj.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/chitral-dir-and-swat-declared-exempt-from-sales-tax.html\">Chitral, Dir and Swat exempted from paying sales tax<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, the district bar association passed a solution calling for renaming Lower Chitral district as Chitral. Barrister Fahad Sultan requested the deputy commissioner of Lower Chitral to take up the matter with the provincial government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chitral: Residents of Chitral have requested the government rename Lower Chitral district as Chitral and Upper Chitral as Mastuj in a bid to preserve the heritage and culture of the region, a news source reported. Read: Hydropower project to be established in Chitral In November 2018, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government had notified the bifurcation of Chitral into two separate districts. At present, Upper Chitral comprises the Mastuj and Torkhow\/Mulkhow subdivisions. Muhammad Yousuf, a lawyer hailing form Mastuj Town, wrote a letter to the provincial chief secretary. He said that the bifurcation is not in line with the wishes of the people. He argued that Mastuj is a household name and that the name of the main tehsil in the newly created district is also Mastuj. He added that even the literature of the area carries the name of Mastuj. Read: Chitral, Dir and Swat exempted from paying sales tax Recently, the district bar association passed a solution calling for renaming Lower Chitral district as Chitral. Barrister Fahad Sultan requested the deputy commissioner of Lower Chitral to take up the matter with the provincial government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":44415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11574],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-kp-govt-asked-to-rename-new-chitral-districts"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>KP govt asked to rename new Chitral districts - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chitral: Residents of Chitral have requested the government rename Lower Chitral district as Chitral and Upper Chitral as Mastuj in a bid to preserve the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-govt-asked-to-rename-new-chitral-districts.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KP govt asked to rename new Chitral districts - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chitral: Residents of Chitral have requested the government rename Lower Chitral district as Chitral and Upper Chitral as Mastuj in a bid to preserve the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-govt-asked-to-rename-new-chitral-districts.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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