Sir: Through the courtesy of your esteemed paper, I would like to draw the kind attention of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Defence Minister towards the prevailing mismanagement in PIA services on Chitral route. PIA started its service on Chitral route in 1959 from Peshawar. The service reached its zenith in 2007 when there were 25 sorties a week. It also opened Islamabad-Chitral route during General Musharraf’s regime. In 2007, air freight for Peshawar was Rs 2,610 and the freight for Islamabad was Rs 3,120 only. In 2014, the ticket was sold at Rs 7,890 and Rs 6,780 respectively. Despite that the number of sorties for Chitral have been reduced to only two sorties per week. These sorties are cancelled each week and practically there is no sortie at all. It is high time that the PML-N government should restore PIA flights for Chitral as half a million population is badly suffering due to the closure of Lowari Top.
BASHIR HUSSAIN AZAD
Chitral
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