KOHAT: The decades old police checkposts at all the entry points of Kohat have been relocated to stop criminals away from the fast expanding population of the city.

Old checkposts on the Kohat-Hangu road, Indus Highway, Jarvanda road, and at City gate, Shahpur chowk and tunnel toll plaza have been shifted to new locations. Security arrangements have also been upgraded at these posts. Their new locations are on Kohat-Hangu road near Kaghazai chowk, Indus Highway near Muslimabad and on Kohat-Pindi road near the Cadet College.

According to a police statement, new locations for the checkposts were selected after consultations with the security experts, traffic police and other relevant departments monitoring the borders of tribal areas.

The new posts are linked through communication system with the central control room. The statement said that in these new posts old staff had been replaced with new ones who were equipped with modern weapons and technology. The staff is also equipped with the mobile phones having vehicle verification software and criminals verification software through which suspected vehicles and proclaimed offenders could be identified.

GOVT CRITICISED: People here have criticised the provincial government for expelling four private institutions in the education and health sectors from rented buildings and demanded cancellation of orders in this regard.

The government has served final notice on the Frontier Education Foundation’s women girls college to vacate the building owned by the health department. The institution established in 90s in the old women and children hospital was one a leading educational institution. It had been given Rs500,000 award by Chief Minister Pervez Khattak for showing exemplary results. Its shifting could hamper education of the female students. There are only three public sector girls colleges which were hardly sufficient for the girl students of the Kohat division. The FEF college was approved and brought to Kohat by former governor retired Lt-Gen Iftikhar Hussain Shah. The health department has been demanding payment of Rs2.9 million as outstanding rent since its establishment in 2002.

Similarly, the Ittefaq Kidney Centre, which is the only such facility in Kohat division, is being asked to vacate the block of Liaquat Memorial Hospital (LMH). It was performing 16 dialyses free of cost daily. The Frontier Blood Transfusion Centre in the same hospital, which fulfilled the need of thallasaemia patients, had also been asked to leave the hospital. Both institutions were being run by NGOs.

Same is the case with the Family Health Hospital, Sangerh, Kohat, which was established in 2003 for handling delivery cases.

Published in Dawn, August 27th, 2015

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