KARAK: The education department has issued a notification regarding recruitment of 30 primary schoolteachers and 11 certificate teachers in different schools of the district.

Sources in the education department told Dawn on Saturday that the district education officer Abdus Salam Marwat issued the notification.

The teachers were directed to take the charge of their new assignments within stipulated time.

The finance secretary of Tanzeem-i-Asataza, Khairullah Hawari, and district president of All Primary Teachers Association (APTA) Javed Iqbal Khattak expressed satisfaction over the recruitment of the teachers as the schools had been facing shortage of teachers since long.

They expressed optimism that the shortage of teachers in schools would be overcome from the new academic session scheduled to be started from April.

COMPENSATION SOUGHT: The local farmers association on Saturday demanded of the government to compensate the growers as hailstorm damaged standing crops of wheat and gram and vegetables across the district.

They made the demand at a meeting chaired by the association’s district president Mohammad Iqbal Khattak.

The farmers hailing from different parts of the district said the hailstorm on Friday night had damaged standing crops, inflicting heavy losses on them. They said they were expecting good yield this year, but the hailstorm dashed their hopes.

They demanded that the Karak should be declared calamity-hit and an assessment of the damages should be carried out to compensate the affected farmers.

PROTEST: The internally displaced persons of North Waziristan Agency held a demonstration against the delay in repatriation to their native areas here on Saturday. The protesters gathered in the Tappi area and chanted slogans calling for their early repatriation.

Published in Dawn, March 20th, 2016