Haroon Siraj
Swat
On account of Eid celebrations over 400,000 tourists visited Swat’s scenic spots while 70 thousands tourists visited Upper Dir and 61 thousands tourists visited lower Chitral during Eid holidays.
The district administration and Swat police made tremendous efforts to provide facilities to the tourists at the hill-stations in Fizaghat, Kalam and Malamjabba where Tourist Police have been launched and teams of other relevant departments deployed to facilitate the visitors.
“Apart from providing security at all the tourist points, police have been deployed since the first day of Eid to ensure smooth flow of traffic after receiving a huge number of tourists in Swat,” District Police Officer Zahid Nawaz Marwat told Lead Pakistan .
According to media reports, over 9 lac tourists across the country and 622 foreign tourists visited Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province while Swat received the highest number of tourists in the recent Eid days.
From the first day of Eid, Record number of tourists were seen in Malamjabba as 3, 22, 800 tourists visited the scenic spot while Kalam received more than 67 thousands tourists.
Similarly 70 thousand tourists visited Kumrat Upper Dir and 58 thousand tourists visited Chitral’s beautiful spots while 3 thousand tourists spent their Eid vacations in Upper Chitral.
Apart from the police and district administration, civil defense as well as Rescue 1122 remained on the road in the tourist stations to provide treatment to the large number of visitors in case of an mergency.
However, The tourists complained that the local hotels were charging high rates at all the tourist stations after receiving such a large number of guests from all across the country.
