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HARIPUR, Nov 11: Stressing on the role of journalists, lawyers and social workers in rooting out various social evils, Iftikhar Ashraf Khan, advocate, Tehsil Nazim, Haripur, asked them to wage Jihad against the menace of narcotics.
He was speaking at the concluding session of a day seminar on the rights of juveniles here at a local hotel the other day.
The seminar was arranged by the Dost Foundation, NWFP. He lambasted the law enforcement agencies saying that it was the slackness of these institutions that drugs have found their way into almost every home.
He said that he was determined to rid the city of drug users and peddlers. He added that there was already a plan for the rehabilitation of drug addicts.
A special ward had been designated in Civil Hospital, Khalabat Township, which would be run by a local NGO and the Tehsil administration.
SHOPS BURGLED: Three shops got burgled and the owners were deprived of millions of rupees worth of goods and cash here on Friday.
According to the police unknown burglars sneaked into M. Arshad City Mobile Centre on GT Road last night and took with them mobile phones and pay phone cards worth Rs370,000.
The same night another theft was reported in a fertilizer shop in the same vicinity. The thieves stole Rs60,000 and a licensed 30-bore pistol.
In the third incident about five persons forced themselves into Jameel Tea Store located in front of the SP’s office and decamped with Rs63,000 in broad daylight.
These incidents have got the business community worried. They pay a substantial amount towards the security system, recently introduced in the city.
