NOWSHERA: Traders on Saturday put up the shutters across Nowshera to protest the killing of JUI-F leader Maulana Amir Hamza here.

Maulana Amir Hamza was gunned down by motorcyclists on Friday night when he returning home after offering prayer at a local mosque.

He was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in Bahder Baba area after the people offered funeral prayer for him.

Later, traders closed the shutters against the killing.

They demanded the immediate arrest and punishment of killers.

CM orders arrest of JUI leader’s killers in Nowshera

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Pervez Khattak condemned the killing and asked the police to arrest killers.

He sympathised with the bereaved family and said killers would be brought to justice soon.

Also, former minister Mian Muzaffar Shah and former MNA Maulana Hamidul Haq condemned the killing and demanded early arrest of killers for strict punishment.

POLIO CAMPAIGN FROM MONDAY: A three-day polio vaccination campaign will begin in the high-risk union councils of Nowshera on March 30.

The campaign will cover nine union councils in Nowshera.

The union councils have been placed in three categories i.e. high-risk, very high-risk and super high risk, where different strategies will be adopted for polio campaign.

Officials said super high-risk union councils were those where internally displaced persons from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas lived.

They said unavailability of children during the campaign, vaccination refusal by parents and underperformance of local health staff were also the factors, which turned an area into super high-risk one.

The officials said strict monetary system had been developed to overcome deficiencies in the campaign and that the people showing laxity in their work would face stern action.

They said parents wouldn’t be allowed to defy polio vaccination of their children.

CANTONMENT BOARD ELECTIONS: The PTI and JI on Saturday agreed to field joint candidates for the cantonment board elections in Nowshera district.

The agreement came during a meeting.

The PTI was represented by excise minister Mian Jamshaiduddin, Mian Shabbiruddin Kakakhel, Noman Khan and Falak Nawaz Khan, and the JI by Anwarul Islam, Dost Mohammad Khan and Mian Yasir Ijaz Kakakhel.

Published in Dawn, March 29th, 2015

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