CHITRAL: The local people extended warm welcome to newly elected chairman of tehsil Chitral and took him to Garm Chashma in procession.
The procession started from Shahi Qilla Chitral and all the way men and women from every village stood in the way and greeted them. During this time, some very emotional scenes were also seen when the elderly people of the area hugged Shahzada Aman-ur-Rehman, wept and expressed their happiness on his success.
It is worth mentioning here that during recently held local bodies election, the PTI nominated candidate Shahzada Aman-ur-Rehman acquired 25,606 votes winning against rival Maulvi Abdul Rehman of JUI with margin of 12,321 votes.
The caravan consisted of several vehicles and the most interesting scene was when girls, women and young men stood on the road and showered flowers on him. It is a custom of the people of Chitral to give shapiri on the occasion of happiness. Shapiri is actually to sweeten the mouth, but when offering shapiri, it also includes skim milk, curd, sweets and candies, walnuts, dried fruits.
All the people were standing with garlands of flowers in their hands and putting garlands of flowers around the neck of Prince Aman-ur-Rehman to express their happiness over his success. During this time aged women would kiss the prince and express their love for him like son. The caravan hardly reached Garamchishma in five hours, where large numbers of people were waiting to receive him.
Apart from PTI workers, people from all walks of life gathered in large numbers at Garm Chashma. Addressing the public gathering, the people of the area expressed their happiness over Prince Aman-ur-Rehman, congratulated him and expressed hope that the people of the area, considering him as their son, would unanimously vote for him by a landslide. Succeeded in the same way they will now serve the people of this area.
Addressing the public gathering, Prince Aman-ur-Rehman thanked the people of Wadi Garm Chashma, Karimabad, Shughur, Arkari, Persan, Union Council Ion, Jaguar, Bamburit and all the people of different valleys who jointly considered him as their son and used their precious vote in his favour to make them successful.
