KOHAT: Former district president of Awami National Party Javed Khattak has expressed resentment over non-completion of projects to construct two colleges and a school that were started here during their party’s government in the province.

In a statement issued here on Saturday, he said that two girls colleges and a higher secondary school were approved by then MPA Qalbe Hassan during the previous government of ANP, but despite passage of over three years the projects had not been completed.

He said that the matric and intermediate pass students of Lachi and Ustarzai had to travel to Kohat city for studies.

He said that the two colleges and a higher secondary school were sanctioned in Lachi and Ustarzai, but due to lethargy of communication and works department work had been delayed on the projects.

He urged the chief minister to launch an inquiry into the matter and release funds if required for completion of the projects. Javed Khattak also claimed that the district education officer (male) had purchased furniture of over Rs90 million for staffrooms whereas there was no place to accommodate it.

He alleged that it had been bought to make commission.

He said that work on Mithakhel high school had been completed, but it was lying vacant like a ghost building.

STOMACH DISEASES: Dr Younis Nadeem, who recently returned from US after attending a conference on stomach diseases, has blamed enormous stress on brain of terrorism-hit people as the major cause of stomach diseases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Talking to mediapersons here, he also said that due to use of spices and contaminated water every third Pakistani was suffering from stomach disease.

He said that it was responsibility of the state to provide safe drinking water to the 90 per cent of the people who were deprived of it especially in rural areas.

Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2016