SWABI: Adviser to the prime minister and PML-N leader Amir Muqam claimed on Friday that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s planned march on Raiwind on Sept 30 would meet the same fate as did its prolonged dharna in Islamabad.

The Raiwind march announced by PTI chief Imran Khan is aimed at forcing the government to hold inquiry into Panama Papers that revealed family of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif owned offshore companies.

Talking to media persons during his visit to the district Mr Muqam said Mr Khan was bent upon marching to the residence of the prime minister notwithstanding the Indian forces buildup on the country’s borders. He said the people had become aware of the ‘opportunist’ politics of PTI leadership, which was in a bid to divert their attention from its utter failure in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

“As PTI has lost its position in KP, it is now looking for face saving but people would reject the politics of protest and agitation,” he said.

Mr Muqam said PML-N leadership was focused on economic development, fighting war on terror and countering the Indian hegemonic designs, but Imran Khan was resorting to politics of confrontation and protest.

“If Imran Khan wants to become prime minister he should wait until 2018 when the constitutional term of the present government ends. And If people voted him to power in the general elections we will welcome him,” he said.

SECURITY MEETING: Police high ups and officials of the three universities and other educational institutions in the district held a meeting on Friday to discuss security arrangements being taken by the latter at their institutions.

On the occasion, Javid Iqbal, the district police officer, said the educational institutions should ensure installing barbed wire, closed-circuit television cameras and well-trained watchmen to thwart any terror attack.

The DPO also instructed the officials that special security arrangements should be made at the hostels of educational institutions.

When contacted, an official told Dawn that the meeting was held in view of the prevailing threat of terrorism to the educational institutions.

WOMAN DIES OF WOUNDS: The mother of two minor children, who received burns in a house fire in Right Bank Colony, Tarbela Dam a day before Eidul Azha, succumbed to her injuries in a hospital in Islamabad on Friday.

Her two minor girls were burnt to death in the incident.

The injured mother was taken to Pims Islamabad and later shifted to another hospital in the capital, but she could not survive.

Published in Dawn, September 24th, 2016