January 12, 2008	Saturday	Muharram 02,1429

ISLAMABAD, Jan 11: The residents of Koza Banda, Batagram district of NWFP has demanded of the Pakistan Post to rebuild the area’s post office destroyed in the October 2005 earthquake.

A delegation of elders of the area headed by their representative, Abdurauf Khan, met the Director General Pakistan Post Arshid Khan here on Friday and informed him that the government had ignored the reconstruction of the local post office that served 22,000 residents of the area.

He said the post office was constructed in 1985 and was serving the local population till the deadly earthquake hit the area. He said post offices were already being reconstructed in other areas like Kabal, Batagram and Balakot.

POLICE STATION: Abduraf Khan said the delegation had also appealed to the Interior Ministry to take notice of the ‘illegal’ construction of a police station in Koza Banda on private property.

He said the court of district civil judge-II, Imran Yunas Tanoli, had issued stay orders against the construction of the police station last month. But, the construction work was still on in violation of the court orders.

The police station was located in a building of the C&W in the area since 1993. But, now the same building was being converted into a technical college, that’s why police had to move out. First, they erected tents along a nearby small road and later started occupying the land of the local union council. But, at the end five Kanal of private land was also brought under the construction plan. The affected people had to move the court against the construction, he said.