LANDI KOTAL: Senator Haji Momin Khan Afridi has demanded of the authorities to shift the office of Bara assistant political agent to Levies Centre in Shah Kas for the speedy resolution of the issues of local people.

Talking to local journalists on Monday, he said that the residents of Bara had to travel to Khyber House in Peshawar for attestation of their documents as the assistant political agent was sitting there although a Nadra was set up at Levies Centre in Shah Kas.

Meanwhile, a jirga of Sipah tribe met the assistant political agent on Monday at Khyber House in Peshawar and demanded of him to take steps for protection of a natural forest in Bara.

Sources said that the jirga members told the official that security forces were uprooting trees on a massive scale with the help of excavators. The felled trees, they said, were sold in the timber market without their permission.

They said that the natural forest in Dandee area near Speray Dam was their collective property and they had been looking after it for the last so many decades.

The jirga also assured the administration that more wanted men belonging to Sipah tribe were willing to surrender if the joint investigating team showed leniency towards the already surrendered men and expedite their process of investigation.

MEDICAL CAMP: More than 4,000 patients were examined and given medicines at the medical camps, organised in Tirah valley by the Directorate of Health Fata during the last week.

Agency Surgeon Dr Niaz Afridi said that the daylong camps were established in Bagh Maidan, Khwaja Khel and Sherkhel localities where a lady doctor also examined women patients for the first time.

He said that taking women patients to hospitals and clinics was not customary and in most cases the women were also reluctant to converse with male doctors. He said that local people demanded permanent posting of a lady doctor in the area for which they also offered complete security.

Published in Dawn, September 1st, 2015

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