KOHAT: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s district president has demanded restoration of 35 per cent promotion quota for class-IV employees.

In a statement issued here on Monday, Hamayun Chacha expressed resentment over the decision of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa accountant general to cut the quota to 12 per cent.

He said that there were educated and highly experienced people working as class-IV employees in government departments, with most of them retiring without getting any promotion.

Hamayun Chacha said that making cut in the promotion quota had disappointed the lowest ranked employees and was sheer injustice with them.

He requested the KP accountant general, chief minister Pervez Khattak, federal finance minister Ishaq Dar and the controller (general of accounts) Islamabad to restore the old quota.

ROCKET DEFUSED: The district bomb disposal squad defused a rocket in Ustarzai on Monday.

Officials said that some days back unknown terrorists had fired rockets at two trucks in Marai Bala coming from Orakzai Agency to Kohat, killing one truck driver and injuring the other.

Live ammunition of a rocket was lying there which was found and defused by the BDS personnel on the information of local people.

SHEPHERD TAKEN HOSTAGE: A shepherd was taken hostage by tribesmen of Orakzai Agency on a disputed land in Marai Bala area, while three others managed to escape on Monday.

Officials said that four shepherd entered the disputed land and started cutting wood.

They were first fired upon by the tribesmen and then one Khalil Hussain was kidnapped and taken to Orakzai Agency. The remaining three managed to escape.

The Ustarzai police registered case and launched efforts to recover the kidnapped man.

Published in Dawn, October 21st, 2014