LANDI KOTAL: Congo virus claimed life of a young and promising hockey player from Jamrud subdivision, who died in a Peshawar hospital on Wednesday.

Family sources said 24-year-old Wahidullah contracted Congo virus in a Peshawar locality and later his disease was verified by doctors in a private hospital in the provincial capital where he was admitted some four days back.

His father, a retired employ of Pakistan Postal Service, had appealed to well-off people to help in his treatment as he could not afford the expenses.

Jamrud Bazaar traders and local philanthropists contributed generously but the young boy could not survive due to his critical condition. Wahidullah participated in national circuit hockey tournaments and was aspiring to play for Pakistan at the international level. His sudden death has saddened his admirers and young sports lovers.

Meanwhile, hundreds of Malagori tribesmen in Jamrud again took to the roads on Wednesday to protest unscheduled and prolonged power loadshedding in their area.

Chanting slogans against the Tribal Areas Electricity Supply Company and local political administration, the protesters also marched towards the Warsak Dam and later converged at Marble Chowk. They threatened to hold a protest sit-in in front of the Governor House in Peshawar for an indefinite time if Tesco failed to reduce loadshedding time.

Published in Dawn, August 17th, 2017

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