KOHAT: The divisional administration has registered 45 cases against companies selling spurious drugs and unregistered clinics in Kohat, Karak and Hangu districts during an ongoing campaign.

Talking to journalists here on Friday, the Kohat division commissioner Jamal-ud-Din said that the campaign had been running successfully with the cooperation of the people, including representatives of trade unions.

He said that he had directed deputy commissioners of Kohat, Karak and Hangu districts to make the drive effective by extending it to tehsil and union council level.

Mr Jamal-ud-Din directed drug inspectors to take action without any discrimination and report to him on daily basis.

The divisional commissioner said that encroachments would also be removed during the campaign, besides taking action against hoarders and profiteers.

He added that respective municipal committees had been asked to remove filth from streets and provide healthy environment to taxpayers.

The official said that vacation of government land from illegal occupants was also part of the campaign, adding that over 20,000 people had been illegally living on government and private land owned by Banoori family.

To a question the commissioner said that he had asked the oil and gas exploration companies to provide basic amenities of life to the people of the oil and gas rich Shakardarra.

He also demanded implementation of the water for oil agreement and said that the people should be provided with clean drinking water.

“I have categorically told the OGDCL to solve the water shortage problem, construct roads and compensate farmers for damages caused due to laying of pipelines through their lands,” he said.

Mr Jamal said that the people of Shakardarra had been demanding jobs and better health and education facilities for their children.The problem of low voltage of electricity should also be ended without delay, he added.

COMMITS SUICIDE: A young student of a seminary committed suicide by hanging himself with a tree in Jarma area on Friday.

The local police said caretaker of the Irshadia seminary, Qari Abdul Salam, informed that the student, Mohammadi Khan of Orakzai Agency, was found absent when he took attendance of children on Friday morning. “Afterwards I approached his family and friends, but they were also unaware of his whereabouts.

Later, during search by me and seminary students, Mohammadi was found hanging from a tree in the fields of Ghazi Marjan,” Salam told the police.

The police registered case and began investigation into what caused him to take his life.