June 9, 2005	Thursday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 1, 1426

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LAKKI MARWAT, June 8: The president of the local chapter of the Sarhad College Teachers Association, Prof Mohammad Yaqoob Khan, has condemned the authorities concerned for booking 68 ‘innocent’ students in the Gomal University case.

Talking to journalists here on Wednesday, he urged the government to constitute a judicial commission headed by a high court judge to conduct an inquiry into the incident so that the real culprits could be exposed and taken to task.

“Several of those arrested are peace-loving students who always refrained from indulging into violence,” he said and called on the government to withdraw cases against students and ensure their re-admission to the university so that they could continue their studies.

LOADSHEDDING: The Jamiat Tulbai-i-Islam (Fazl) has threatened to hold a protest demonstration against unscheduled power loadshedding if the Peshawar Electric Supply Company does not take measures to curb the menace.

The decision was taken at a meeting held in Tajazai on Wednesday, presided over by JTI-F district president Hafiz Israrullah and attended by a large number of activists.

Later, JTI-F district information secretary Hafiz Sharifullah told journalists that the participants had expressed anger over prolonged power breakdowns in various parts of the district.

“The speakers lashed out at the local officials of Pesco for carrying out long hour loadsheddings to cover line losses, and demanded an immediate end to it,” he said.

OFFICE SHIFTING: The elders of Tajazai and Zeraan villages have advised the leaders of the Save Lakki Movement (SLM) to utilize their energies for progress of the backward district.

In a joint press statement issued here on Wednesday, Malik Sadullah Khan, Shaikh Nawaz Khan, councillor Abdul Ghafoor Jan and others alleged that the SLM leaders were main hurdles in the development of Lakki Marwat.

They said the SLM leaders were instigating inhabitants of Lakki city and adjacent villages against shifting of government offices to the newly established district headquarters (DHQ) complex and the establishment of a judicial complex to promote their vested interests.

“The relocation of government offices in the DHQ complex will facilitate the people to get their works done,” they said.

They added that the SLM leaders would never succeed in their designs of keeping the people from development and prosperity.

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