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BIOGRAPHY
Abdul Latif, son of Gul Sambar
Khan, a resident of Oweer Nichagh,
Tehsil Mastuj, district Chitral, is
elected President of PTI’s Chitral
Chapter, 1st February since 2013.
POLITICAL HISTORY
Abdul Latif was defeated in 2013
by Sh. Iftikharuddin of APML[i]. He
was later present at Azadi March
of PTI[ii].
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Abdul Latif, son of Gul Sambar Khan, a resident of Oweer Nichagh,
Tehsil Mastuj, district Chitral, is elected President of PTI’s Chitral
Chapter, 1st February since 2013[1]. He appears to be engaged in
the business of Timber and have been named in scandals by local
media.
PTI PRESIDENT - CHITRAL
• He has cleared CSS 2 times, intellectual and well
connected with Public [2].
• Name of Abdul Latif is rumored to be associated with
Timber Mafia in Chitral[3][4].
POLITICAL AFFILIATION
PAKISTAN TEHREEK-I-INSAF, PRESIDENT, CHITRAL
President of PTI’s Chitral Chapter, and he is confirmed to be in
this position since 2013.
REPUTE
• He is involved in promotion of POLO [5].
• Abdul Latif was fined an amount of more than Rs40 million
for allegedly cutting green trees in the Kalash valley. The
letter issued by the deputy forest manager Chitral on
August 8, 2013, stated: “A contract for harvesting 1,185
dry/standing and windfall trees measuring 90,399 cubic
feet (cft) marked in the Acholgah compartment No. 9 & 10
was awarded to Mr. Abdul Latif, son of Gul Sambar Khan,
a resident of Oweer Nichagh, Tehsil Mastuj, district Chitral,
under an agreement signed by him with the FDC dated 16-
01-2010”[5].
NEWS & MEDIA
• PTI Chitral chief battling to get over Rs40 million penalty
waived. Chitral Today
• PTI Chitral workers demand dissolution of party’s district
cabinet. Pakistan Today
• PTI president involved in deforestation. Chitral News
PTI Chitral chief battling to get over Rs40 million penalty waived
 June 13, 2014

Report Zar Alam Khan

ISLAMABAD, June 12: On June 7, Fazal Elahi, the PTI member of the KP assembly and parliamentary
secretary for forests and environment, visited Chitral and announced the provincial government’s
decision to abolish all the joint forest management committees (JFMC) in the district.

Environment activists and the citizens at large welcomed the move and
termed it a right decision towards the preservation of forests and tightening
the noose around the timber mafia in the valley.
But an official letter received by ChitralToday from its sources showed not
only the government’s lackadaisical approach towards the issue of
deforestation but also made it clear how politically influential people were
hands in glove with the timber mafia.
According to the letter, PTI Chitral president Abdul Latif, who also
contested the general election 2013 for the National Assembly seat (NA-
24), was fined an amount of more than Rs40 million for allegedly cutting
green trees in the Kalash valley.
The letter issued by the deputy forest manager Chitral on August 8, 2013, stated: “A contract for harvesting
1,185 dry/standing and windfall trees measuring 90,399 cubic feet (cft) marked in the Acholgah compartment No
9 & 10 was awarded to Mr. Abdul Latif, son of Gul Sambar Khan, a resident of Oweer Nichagh, Tehsil Mastuj,
district Chitral, under an agreement signed by him with the FDC dated 16-01-2010.”
Accordingly, the letter added, “the work order was issued to Mr Abdul Latif for harvesting the marked trees vide
Deputy Forest Manager Chitral’s letter No. 1680 dated 15-6-2010 after fulfillment of the codal formalities.”
The work contractor started harvesting operations in the lot during the month of May, 2010, it said.
“On 9-06-2010, a committee consisting of officers of the Forest Development and FDC inspected FDC Lot No.
637/M (Achulgah compartment No. 9 &10) along with Mr. Noor Shahideen, the then chairman of the joint forest
management committee (JFMC), Achulgah forest.” During the inspection of the lot, the following illicit damage to
the unmarked green trees was observed in the Achulgah compartment No. 9:

Species No of trees Volume (cft)

Deodar 138 18,539
Kail 01 107
F/S 02 108
————————————————————————-
Total 141 18754

Accordingly, a show-cause notice was issued to the work contractor vide DFM Chitral letter No. 2637 dated 24-
06-2013, followed by a reminder (No. 13 dated 1-7-2013). The reply from the work contractor was examined and
consequently found unsatisfactory. “Therefore, the work contractor was held liable to punitive action under clause
22(c) of the agreement executed by him with FDC.”
It added: “Thus by invoking clause-22(c) of the agreement, the penalty of Rs.41343240/- imposed by the
conservator of Forest Malakand (west) forest circle at Timergara vide his office order No.07 dated 31-7-2013 is
hereby transferred to/imposed on Mr. Abdul Latif S/O Gul Smabar Khan R/O Oweer Nichagh, Tehsil Mastuj,
District Chitral (work contractor for FDC Lot No. 637/M).”
The above penalty is recoverable from work bills, security deposits or as arrears of land revenue of the said work
contractor as per provision of the agreement executed by him with FDC, the document added.
However, when ChitralToday contacted Mr Abdul Latif, he said he had sublet the contract to Haji Muhammad
Khan. He said the inspection report was prepared through the JFMC head Noor Shahideen who had some
grudge with Haji Muhammad Khan and tried to settle an old score with him. Mr Latif said he had challenged the
penalty in a civil court of Chitral where it was under adjudication.
Talking to ChitralToday, Haji Muhammad Khan said after a kidnapping and murder incident in the forest area, the
harvesting of wood there was stopped during which some people from the Kalash valley cut the green trees and
later tried to involve him in it.

Sources said that MPA Fouzia Bibi of the PTI had been tasked by the local leadership to approach the high
government functionaries and get the penalty on Mr Latif waived or at least substantially reduced. However, Ms
Fouzia in a text message to ChitralToday stated: “I am very responsible (person). If someone is involved in illegal
work, even my party member, I would never support him on any cost.”

The sources said the parliamentary secretary on forests, Fazal Elahi, had planned to make a surprise visit to
Chitral after receiving public complaints about the rampant cutting of trees in the valley but the timber mafia got
the news of his arrival in Chitral well in advance. When Mr Elahi reached Drosh and came to the venue of a
meeting with the citizens at the rest house, most of the participants were from Arandu, Shishi Koh and Ashiret
who were involved in the timber ‘business’ or had links with the timber mafia. The sources said when the
parliamentary secretary announced to abolish the JFMCs across Chitral, the PTI local leaders tried their best to
persuade him to withdraw the decision but to no avail. The PTI Chitral president, Abdul Latif, was however, in
Peshawar at that time.

Irrespective of the outcome of the case, many residents of Chitral are of the view that the mere imposition of the
huge penalty on Mr Latif showed that the cupboard of the PTI, which came to power in KP on the slogan of a
change and fighting corruption, was not free from skeletons at least in Chitral.

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PTI Chitral chief battling to get over Rs40 million penalty waived — 11 Comments

Nasir Mehmood
on June 16, 2014 at 7:29 am said:

After admission of Mr. Abdul Latif that he had already sub-let the contract of harvesting to Haji Mhammad Khan
it has been established that Mr. Abdul Latif is also member of timber mafia and he definitely support his group
(timber mafia) rather than solving problem of Chitral in the corridor of power at provincial level. We request
Imran Khan and central leadership of PTI to take action against the district President of PTI who is involved in
illicit timber business otherwise credibility of PTI at provincial and national level further tarnished. Next district
president of PTI should be elected through inter-party voting in transparent manner. At least Mr. Abdul Latif has
lost his credibility and image, although he might earned a lot of money from timber business which is regarded
the most profitable one.
 Ahmad, Chitral
on June 15, 2014 at 6:45 pm said:

All the black sheep should be kicked out from the PTI. The time has come the local leadership is handed over to
MPA Fozia Bibi as she is an honest lady and can do far better compared to her male counterparts.
The problem with her is that she is unable to take decisions on her own as she is quite new in politics. She is
under immense pressure from the local PTI leadership and that could be judged from the report where she had
been accused of running between one office to another to waive off the fine imposed on the PTI Chitral
president for illegally cutting the threes.
I would like to tell Fozia Bibi not to listen to the opportunist who are bent upon blackmailing people in the name
of jobs, change, justice, and what not. With the recent story published in ChitralToday, the so-called champions
of justice have been exposed.
Fozia must know that she is now a member of the provincial assembly and nobody can unseat her and she
must not come under any sort of influence, pressure, etc. If she acted as a subordinate to anyone in the party,
she would have no political future.
I am not very fond of Saleem Khan but I must give his example as he also started off his political career the way
Ms Fouzia did. Call it a luck, favour or blessing in disguise but make sure that you are member provincial
assembly. And Lateef, Sajjad or anybody else has nothing to do with it and also be grateful to Allah almighty
only for whatever you are today.
When Saleem Khan was given a chance in politics, he sidelined all old party guards and made himself the
district president of the party and now he rules the roost.
Another thing which Saleem Khan did was that he made illegal wealth by selling out jobs when he was
provincial minister for population welfare. But we do not want Ms Fouzia to go for corruption as most of your
seniors will certainly instigate you to make corrupt money.
Be brave and prove yourself that you are the representative of Chitrali people. Try to create a lobby of honest
people as there are also good leaders within PTI.
You should have the quality of a leader and not a boot polisher as majority of Chitrali leaders could be seen
standing behind a public servant like IG police; a tiny deputy commissioner is being invited as chief guest while
an MNA could be seen clapping behind. Disgusting, shameful…!
I would also like to warn you that if you failed to act upon all these advices, you will be searching for jobs after
five years either with SRSP, NCHD, AKRSP or with any other NGO, mourning for all the blunders which you are
going to commit during your five-year tenure as MPA. Lady, wake up from the deep slumber or it will be too late.

sajid mansur
on June 15, 2014 at 5:12 pm said:

PTI walon ka forest k bare mein dawe mahz CHOR MACHAI SHOR wali baat hai. Aae dekhte hein ki PTI ki
leadership Latif k khilaf kia action leti hai.

abid ali
on June 14, 2014 at 11:59 pm said:

I myself have seen truck with full of timber carrying through lawari top to down areas of the country. Here i would
like to add that not only the only influntiel politicians are invovled but also the head of the heads of law and
enforcement are not clean and neat. They make their transfer here and shifting furnitures, constrution woods to
their homes outside of Chitral. You will find many scout carpentors in the contonmant. What are they for? Dont
you think about the former DCO was involved in this lucrative business? How did he make luxurious house on
the right bank of Balach which was not only troublesome for PIA staff but also for the lives of Chitralis. Who
cares? Theives are brothers whether they are politicians or from civil society..

Peerzada
on June 14, 2014 at 2:55 pm said:

Good news for anti latif group in pti chitral.

Gulzar Ali, Booni

on June 14, 2014 at 2:49 pm said:

Given her apolitical background, Bibi Fozia is reportedly under immense pressure from so-called PTI leaders
like Abdul Lateef, Sajjad, etc. to do their illegal works which they have been doing and getting money from
innocent people. The senior PTI leadership must remove these black sheep from the party or else the PTI has
no future in Chitral.

Zahoor ul Haq Danish

on June 14, 2014 at 2:35 pm said:

I will not comment for the time being. Let us wait and see how the decision of abolishing JFMCs works, and how
the new committees are formed. We will also see to what extent the forest department is serious in its claims of
‘fair play’. Let us see what happens next. We have lots of evidences: pictures and video clips of unchecked
deforestation, interviews of locals/witnesses etc simply the evidences of the mysterious game behind all this. Let
the one side of the picture be clear, only then we will come up with a disturbing documentary film on the ‘other
side of the picture’. The documentary film is ready with us, by the way.

Gulzar Ali, Booni

on June 14, 2014 at 6:03 pm said:

Time has come our firebrand MPA Sardar Hussain played his role as he had been talking tall about the
timber mafia before winning the elections. He spared nobody in Chitral who is not involved in timber
smuggling. Now he has become member of the provincial assembly and let’s see how he exposes the
timber mafia. I would like to make it clear that if Sardar Hussain failed to raise the issue of the PTI leader’s
involvement in timber smuggling on the floor of KP assembly, he will himself be accused of being hands in
glove with the timber smugglers. This is a test case for Sardar Hussain as he has failed to represent the
people of upper Chitral during KP Inspector Genera of Police Nasir Khan Durrani’s visit to Chitral by
standing behind him like a tiny police officer.
With the Rs4 crore penalty on the PTI district president, MPA Fozia Bibi must stand up and inform Imran
Khan about all the bad things the local PTI leadership are into. I have heard that some local leaders of the
PTI are trying to pressurize the lady MPA, giving the impression as they have elevated her to the coveted
slot of MPA against the seats reserved for women. We would strongly recommend PTI chairman Imran Khan
 to fully empower Bibi Fozia and appoint her as the district president for PTI as it will be a step forward
towards women empowerment in the district.

Nizamuddin
on June 14, 2014 at 11:18 am said:

Fauzia Bibi denial to support Latif is a great decision. We expect more such a good decision from Fauzia Sahiba
on the line of PTI manifesto

Nizamuddin
on June 14, 2014 at 11:15 am said:

Its not more then allegation PTI supportss Mr.Latif . Latif was invovled much before the PTI regime, we have not
witnessed any pti official involvement in any corruption, or supporting any one from the manace. They are
entirely working on the right way to eliminate the corruption from its rote. Its not goid to defamenparty for
personel misdeed of any worker. As a whole all hiups are sincere for tha main a cause of elimination of
corruption

Abdul Khaliq
on June 14, 2014 at 9:39 am said:

Those who are in politics only to secure their business interests should be discouraged. PTI should take
disciplinary action against it’s president for making money from deforestation which goes directly against PTI
manifesto. MPA Fauzia Bibi deserves appreciation for not supporting illegal activity of her party president.

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PTI president involved in deforestation

Chitral -- In a surprising revelation, the name of PTI Chitral president Abdul Latif
came up in a recent action against forest mafia cum forest officials link in destroying
green deodar trees in Bumburet area of Chitral. It may be reminded that PTI
Chairman Imran Khan during his huge public meeting in Chitral last September, had
vowed to stop deforestation in Chitral.

Forest department took action against illicit cutting of green trees of Deodar, Kail and
Fir. According to Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Chitral Shaukat Fiaz a fake joint
forest management committee (JFMC) had been organized by Noor Shahiden son of
Bahrma Shah Kalash chairman of JFMC with fake signature of other members from
the same locality which had registered by forest department in past on the direction
of Noor Shahideen. Source told to DFO Chitral that some 43 green trees of Deodar,
Kail and Fir have been cut illegally accomplice with Forest Development
Corporation (FDC). On the direction of Chief Conservator Hashim Ali Khan and
conservator Shah Wazir DFO Chitral detailed Ehsanuddin Sub Divisional Forest
officer and Fazal Khaliq SDFO as inquiry officers who went to forest of Achulgah
compartment No 9 & 10. During inspection of inquiry committee it was proved that
143 Green Deodar, Kail and Fir trees have been cut illicitly consisting on 187540
cusec feet causing of millions of rupees loss to forest department.

DFO Chitral told this scribe that concerned people involved in this crime would be
fined 1000 per tree as well as after assessment its market value another fine would be
charged upon them as more than five times of its market value. He said that Sub
divisional forest officer Muhammad Yousaf, Muhammad Rahim forester and Ahmad
Baig are involved in this gang and legal action would be taken against them. He said
those illicit cut green trees were taken in custody by Forest department. He said that
only wind fall and dry standing tree can be cut according to 2004 forest policy and
green tree in not allow at any cost to be cut illicit. He said that Abdul Hadi a local
person had complained to police regarding fake and illegal JFMC of Noor Shahideen
and police also investigating the case regarding fraud case and legal action would be
also taken against Noor Shahideen, Maik Shahi, Sirajuddin as well as Saifur Rehman
Deputy Forest Manager and Assistant forest manager who also involve in this gang.
It is expected that some 130 million fine would be recovered from the defaulter who
involved in illegal cutting of green tree. Shahbaz khan son of Lala resident of Kaisu
working as petty contractor for FDC confessed in presence of inquiry team and
recorded his statement that subject damage caused by him on consent of Noor
Shahideen the then chairman of JFMC for illegal admixture in the subject lot which
is sufficient to prove the allegations leveled against FDC. As well as

Chitral police have already registered a case of fraud case who collected record of
concern JFMC by court for further interrogation and investigations. Source told this
scribe that Haji Muhammad Khan was carriage contractor and being a local person of
Ayun he also not play his role to inform concerned authority regarding illicit cutting
of green tree of Deodar and to stop it timely before its cutting. Forest department
framed charges and sent the case to high up for further necessary action, hence
secretary forest department is the authorize officer who can reduce this fine if he was
approached by politically or pressurized him by hiding hands. Social and political
circle of Chitral highly hailed this step by forest department and demanded from
Chief Minister KPK and forest department for taking stern action against culprits and
forest staff involved in this gang. It is worth to mention here that cutting of green tree
is totally banned according to forest rules. But this is first time that cutting of green
tree were detected and proved hence it is not clear that so many green trees have been
cut in past which are still hidden.

A top level government official at Chitral told this scribe that the contract had been
awarded to Abdul Latif president of PTI Chitral district who had sublet it to Haji
Muhammad Khan. A senior officer of Forest department confirmed that all of 3 staff
defaulters in this case were suspended from government service. -- GH Farooqi, 08
July 2013,
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