TIMERGARA: A Peshawar Electric Supply Company’s construction unit worker was electrocuted during installation of a transformer at Gul Muqam village in Lower Dir on Friday, residents and witnesses told Dawn.

The deceased identified as Jafar was a resident of Sherpao village of Charsadda district. He was taken to tehsil headquarters hospital but the doctors pronounced him as brought dead.

The body was later dispatched to his native village.

Meanwhile, a youth identified as Fazal Rabi, resident of Karpat Upper Dir, was killed when a passenger van hit his motorcycle at Tarai area near Timergara the other day. Another youth was injured in the incident, who was shifted to district headquarters hospital, Timergara. The Timergara police registered a case and started investigation.

SPORTS’ ACTIVITIES: Terming sports activities vital for physical health and fitness, Lower Dir District Nazim Mohammad Rasool Khan has asked youth to engage in sports to stay fit.

He was speaking at a prize distribution function at Khaima Balambat on conclusion of a volleyball tournament the other day. The Sarhad Rural Support Programme organised the event in which 14 volleyball clubs participated. The final match was played between the clubs of Ouch Adenzai and Odigram Timergara. The Ouch club won the final.

The function was also attended by deputy commissioner Irfanullah Wazir, Balambat tehsil nazim Imran ud Din, district councillor Nazar Gul and SRSP team leader Hayatullah.

The nazim and DC distributed trophies and shields among the best teams and players of the tournament.

The district nazim also announced Rs35,000 for the winner and runner-up teams.

PHD THESIS DEFENDED: Hazrat Ali of the University of Malakand has successfully defended his PhD thesis in the department of physics during a session held here on Friday.

The topic of his PhD was ‘the effect of Kerr non-linearity, Doppler broadening and spontaneous generated coherence on slow light propagation’. His valuable work has various applications in modern optical technology. His research work is mainly focused on slow light and can be used in quantum information processing. “Slow light can be used to store information inside atomic medium,” he informed the audience. It can also be used to synchronise various signals from an array of radars, he added.

Published in Dawn, October 15th, 2016