The MNA mentioned the rough handling he got at the hands of security personnel at the tunnel and said if the attitude of security personnel continues to be like this there will be emerge many Mazoor Pashtins to challenge the high handedness, but we will not let this happen he quickly added. He said vehicle registration etc should be handed over to police on both sides of the tunnel and NHA should take management of traffic under it’s own control and not make any excuses. He said he would submit a privilege motion in the National Assembly regarding the incident. MPA Molana Hidayatur Rahman and other political leaders were present with him during the press conference.? 
?On my behalf I met KP senior minister and minister of tourism Atif Khan in the second week of Sept and requested him to have all the NHA road projects namely Chitral-Garam Chashka Dorah Pass Road costing Rs8.4 billion, Chitral-Kalash Valleys Road, Chitral-Shandur Road, Terich Lot Owir,? Chitral-Chakdara road and Torkhow Road which the C&W department was implemented if we really want promotion of tourism in the area. To my request, Atif Khan promised to speak to PM Imran Khan to ensure that Garam Chashma and Kalash Valley roads are executed as planned,? Shahzada Iftikhar said in a statement on Sunday.
At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Commission (ECNEC) on March 7, 2018, it was ensured that Chitral-Shandur Road was not left alone to CPEC funding and at the time of approval it was agreed that for this road funds would be allocated via PSDP. Therefore, an amount of Rs1.5 billion was allocated in PSDP 2018 for the current financial year.
?In the 2018-19 budget, I had ensured that Rs1.5 billion were allocated for Chitral-Shandur Road against its total cost of Rs16.75 billion, another Rs1.5 billion were allocated for Chitral-Garam Chashma Road with the total project cost of Rs8.4 billion, Rs500 million were set aside for the Kalash valley Roads with the total cost of Rs4.6 billion and Rs300 million were reserved for the Torkhow Road. Now 12 out of 13 excavators and bulldozers have been moved out of the Torkhow Road project site by the contractor.
The federal government recently dropped the Chitral-Shandur road from the current fiscal year?s PSDP while funding for another mega project, Chakdara-Chitral Road, has also been shelved.
?It is very painful to learn of the new government?s priorities. Chakdara Chitral Road also part of the PSDP costing Rs17.42 billion had been guaranteed funding from South Korean?s EXIM Bank whose status needs to be determined. Likewise Rs75 crores were included in PSDP for Terich Lot Owir Road in addition to three bridges each costing Rs16 crores between Oseak-Drosh, Kuragh-Kosht, Nishkuh-Werkhop, Shogore-Awi as all bridge projects were approved at CDWP on 13 March, 2018.?
That means that Terich Lot Owir road alone had total allocations of Rs1.02 billion (Rs75 crores + Rs16 crores for Nishkuh Bridge + Rs16 crores for Kuragh Kosht Bridge). One would reckon if the Rs16.75 billion Shandur Road gets dropped the same could also be expected of the 212 km Shandur-Gilgit Road for which Rs25 billion were allocated in the PSDP 2018-19 thereby taking out Chitral from CPEC?s alternate route and casting a dark shadow on our future economic outlook as Chitral becomes isolated at a time when the rest of the GB and Hazara and 14 districts of KP besides Bajaur and Mohmand agencies would reap the benefits of the CPEC route.
Removing Chitral?s mega projects from PSDP 2018 is unfortunate as it had taken 14 months just to survey the Chitral-Shandur Road and an additional year to approve it at ECNEC while it took six months each just to survey the Garam Chashma and Kalash valley roads.
An amount of Rs59 billion were spent on different projects in Chitral during the PML-N government?s tenure from 2013 to May 2018. .. Source?
Chitralis who were a fan of Osama would be pleased to know that his maternal uncle Dr Nisar Ahmad Cheema has won the National Assembly seat from NA 79 Gujranwala with?142545 votes scoring a thumping victory over his nearest rival by over 24 thousand votes difference. Dr Nisar Cheema has been former DG health Punjab and is younger brother of Justice Iftikhar Cheema and ex IGP Zulfiqar Cheema. The family is known for it’s honesty and integrity during their tenure in service. 
and Drosh, Chitral Chakdara road, Ayun Bumburet road and Garm Chashma Nadra office. Present on the occasion were Commissioner Malakand Division, DIG Malakand, District Nazim, District administration officials, Sui gas executives, PMLN office bearers and local notables.
Chitral ..? At a meeting with the Prime Minister on 17 Nov, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, MNA Shahzada Iftikharuddin discussed with him various developmental projects of Chitral and the PM directed SNGPL authorities to expedite land purchase process of the three gas plants at Chitral, Ayun (Broz) and Drosh.