Chitrali was established in 1953 in East Bengal, Pakistan by journalist Syed Mohammad Parvez.
[4] Its office was in the Co-operative Book Society Building next to Bahadur Shah Park in Dhaka.
[5] Chitrali's publishing rights were sold to the Observer House in 1959 due to losses incurred in producing the film Matir Pahar by the editor.
In 2004, according to Ramen Bhowmik, then senior editor of the weekly Chitrali, the magazine had a circulation of 115,000 to 120,000 copies in the years following 1971, which was then rare.
[8] Asaduzzaman Noor and Mahfuz Ahmed have worked in this magazine.