KOHAT: The administration removed encroachments from 13 shops and fined as many traders in a crackdown in the main Kohat bazaar.

Additional assistant commissioner Mohammad Zubair along with staff of the tehsil municipal committee reached the bazaar and removed extended floors of over a dozen shops. The encroachments had been causing blockage of the drainage system of bazaar because the sweepers could not clean it properly as they were covered by cemented platforms.

Each shopkeeper was also fined Rs5,000 and warned that they would be sent to prison if they made encroachments again. Earlier, the administration had removed sheds of the shops which were extended by three to five feet by the traders.

Meanwhile, assistant commissioner Ali Asghar sealed an illegal ice factory on Bannu road and arrested its five employees. Two petrol pumps were also fined Rs40,000 each for tampering the quantity gadget.

COLLEGE ADMISSION ISSUE: A jirga decided here on Thursday that MPA Ziaullah Bangash and clerks of the government girls degree college, KDA, would withdraw cases against each other and bury the hatchet in a case of clash over the admissions issue.

It would again meet for considering the admissions of the ignored applicants. The jirga was headed by MNA Shehryar Afridi and participated by president of all clerks association Farooq Shah, Karamat Shah and some councillors. The agreement between both the parties would be signed on Aug 25 and police cases would be withdrawn by the college principal and the MPA.

The situation had aggravated after the police refused to register an FIR against the MPA taking the plea that nobody was injured and no damage had been caused to the college, said a police spokesman.

ROBBER HELD: The Junglekhel police have arrested an alleged dacoit who had looted gold jewellery and mobile phones from three houses of Afghan refugees in Ghamkol camp.

Police said that the alleged dacoit identified as Khayal Gul and a resident of Mashogagar, Peshawar, broke into the houses of Taj Mohammad, Mohammad Ghani and Dotar Khan and took away the jewellery and mobile phones. The accused was rounded up while fleeing the camp.

Published in Dawn, August 21st, 2015

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