TIMERGARA: JUI-F provincial chief Maulana Gul Naseeb Khan on Friday said stopping horse trading in the upcoming Senate elections was impossible until there was a solid constitutional amendment.

Talking to reporters in Chakdara, Maulana Gul said no one took notice of the horse trading when a constitutional amendment was direly needed.

He said the proposed amendment to the Constitution against horse trading at the current stage would go to waste as it won’t be able to serve the purpose.

JUI-F leader says proposed amendment to Constitution useless at the current stage

The JUI-F leader said all lawmakers of the party would vote for those nominated by the leadership.

He said the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister should have resigned and the provincial police chief and chief secretary arrested over the Army Public School massacre as they all had miserably failed to protect the life of innocent children.

Maulana Gul said the provincial government held seminaries responsible for terrorism to hide its failure to protect public life and property.

He said the US was to blame for the deteriorating law and order around the world.

ROAD PROJECT: Local government minister Inayatullah Khan on Thursday said the government had planned to introduce a unique system of local government in the province.

Addressing a public meeting after inaugurating the Markaz Darul Ihsan Road project in Gulabad area of Chakdara, the minister said the government had planned to hold local government elections in the province in May.

He said 45,000 local government representatives would be elected in the LG polls.

The minister said 30 per cent of the government funds would be utilised through LG representatives.

He said all arrangements for local government polls had been made.

The minister asked political activists to prepare themselves for the upcoming polls.

PESCO EMPLOYEES PROTEST: The Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union Timergara workers on Friday staged a protest in front of the Timergara Press Club against the government’s decision to privatise power companies.

The protesters carrying banners and placards shouted slogans against the government and Wapda selloff.

Speaking on the occasion, divisional chairman of hydro electric workers union Yousaf Khan said the government had decided to privatise Wapda to please IMF and World Bank but the union won’t resist the decision.

On the occasion, PPP leader Nawabzada Mehmood Zeb Khan assured the Wapda officials that his party supported the hydroelectric workers union against the Wapda privatisation.

HELP SOUGHT: A poor ninth grader living with physical disability on Friday appealed to the authorities to support his plan to continue education.

Naimatullah of Bajaur Agency also demanded a wheel chair for himself.

He told reporters here that his family was too poor to afford his education expenses. The boy appealed to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan, Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and Dir Scouts Commandant Colonel Nasar Umar Hayat Lalika to help him pursue education without interruption besides ensuring provision of a wheelchair.

Published in Dawn, February 28th, 2015

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