Two girls killed

TIMERGARA, Sept 17: Two girls were killed and another suffered injuries when the boundary wall of a seminary collapsed in Shabandai area here on Saturday.

Residents said that the girl students had spread a carpet for drying on the wall of the seminary at the Hayasarai village after washing it.

The wall collapsed when they were pulling down the carpet, killing two of them on the spot and injuring another.The victims included Haseena, 9, and Sumia, 8. The injured girl was identified as Nazia. They were shifted to the Timergara hospital.

The residents said the seminary was functioning in a dilapidated house and had no proper building.—Correspondent

Five held in Kohat

KOHAT, Sept 17: The police on Saturday arrested two female dancers and three men and recovered a Kalashnikov from their possession on Rawalpindi road here.The Gumbat police arrested the female dancers and the men when they were going back after performing in the KDA town on Friday night. A Kalashnikov and cartridges were also seized from the men.

The police produced the female dancers, who had been brought from Rawalpindi and the participants, in the court and shifted them to the district prison.

Meanwhile, the two personnel of Frontier Corps, who had died during fighting with militants in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency, were laid to rest in their ancestral graveyards in Kamardhand and Buland Banda areas with full honors on Saturday. —Correspondent

Kidnapping bid foiled

PESHAWAR, Sept 17: Traffic police on Saturday foiled an attempt to kidnap a 15-year-old school student on Kohat Road.

A spokesman of the traffic police said five unidentified kidnappers, riding a car (H-1020), tried to forcefully bundle the boy, Farhat Imam of Superior Model School, into their car while he was going to school on a bike with his brother.

He said the traffic police personnel chased the alleged kidnappers. But as their car reached the Murshid Abad at Kohat Road it went out of the driver’s control and rammed into another vehicle.

The accused managed to flee leaving the vehicle and the student behind. The police brought the boy and the car to the Yakatoot police station and registered a case against unidentified kidnappers.—Bureau Report

Workshop on AIDS

PESHAWAR, Sept 17: A five-day training workshop on HIV/AIDS concluded here on Saturday. The AIDS Control Programme (ACP) of Fata with the support of the Unicef conducted the workshop for medics and paramedical staff of the Frontier Regions of Peshawar, Kohat, D.I. Khan and Tank.

A total of 38 participants, including doctors, laboratory technicians and LHVs, attended the training course wherein they were given detailed presentations on causes and prevention of AIDS.

Programme Manager ACP Fata Shaima Malik thanked the participants and Unicef for the support.—APP

Attack on children condemned

PESHAWAR, Sept 17: Provincial amir of JI Senator Prof Ibrahim on Saturday visited Lady Reading Hospital to inquire after the health of children injured in firing incident at Mattani.

Prof Ibrahim was accompanied by former MNAs Sabir Hussain Awan, Sahibzada Haroon-ur-Rasheed, former MPA Javed Mohmand and officials of Al-Khidmat Foundation.

Talking to media, he strongly denounced the attack on school van and demanded of the government to bring the culprits involved in the incident before the law.—APP

Anti-corruption drive

PESHAWAR, Sept 17: A group of civil society activists on Saturday launched an anti-corruption campaign across the country by observing token hunger strike outside the building of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly.

The protesters led by Fayaz Khan, Tariq Khan and others issued a 30-point charter of demands to media and vowed to mobilise the people of different sections of society in all the provinces, AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan to support the demands.

They said corruption was mother of all the problems which had weakened basis of the country and posed a serious threat to unity of the nation.

In their demands they stressed the need that all the appointments should be made on merit and those indulging in corruption be awarded exemplary punishment.—Bureau Report