KOHAT: The social and political circles here have asked the local administration and the district council to take notice of distribution of fake forms of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) by fraudsters to deprive the poor people of their hard-earned money.

They also wanted halt to selling of forms to people for provision of gas facility in Ghorazai Payan area of Gumbat tehsil by rival groups of MNA Sheharyar Afridi of PTI and state minister of PML-N Abbas Khan Afridi.

The forms are being sold for Rs200, but the officials of SNGPL expressed their ignorance about any order to provide gas to the said area.

It was reported that a group of people was active in the urban and rural areas targeting the innocent people and selling them fake BISP forms at rates from Rs100 to Rs300.

The affected people, particularly destitute and elderly women, have requested the Commissioner, Kohat Division, Musarat Hussain, deputy commissioner Zahir Shah Mohmand, district police officer Javed Iqbal and district nazim Maulana Niaz Mohammad to arrest the cheaters and award them exemplary punishment.

Meanwhile, the district police officer has asked the force to remain vigilant in the prevailing sensitive law and order and ensure safety of life and property of the people.

He was presented a guard of honor after assuming charge of his office on Monday. Speaking to personnel during his visit to police stations and checkposts, DPO Iqbal said doors of his office would remain always open for good people whereas those who were threat to security and scar on society would be dealt with an iron hand.

IDENTIFICATION OF BODY: The district police have appealed to the people to help them in identifying a mutilated body of a young woman recovered from a nullah in Nasrat Khel by cantonment police on Sunday evening.

In a press statement, the police said the woman’s death was caused by a single bullet fired in her head.

It was shifted to women and children hospital for postmortem which reported that the woman was between the age of 18 to 20 years, wearing red clothes, a veil, black colour shawl and sandals. She had a sign of wound on her left foot. It was buried in the graveyard of the tehsil municipal administration for the unknown.

SPORTS STADIUM: Provincial law minister Imtiaz Shahid Qureshi inaugurated a sports stadium in Lachi tehsil on Monday.

The minister also announced approach road for the stadium and Darpatti-Shakardarra Sports Complex. The stadium cost Rs150 million and is equipped with all the required facilities.

Emphasising sports facilities as prerequisite for a prosperous and healthy nation, the law minister said their party chairman Imran Khan had committed a vision for the youth and introduced first ever youth policy.

Mr Qureshi stated that under the youth policy playgrounds and stadiums would be provided at division, district, tehsil, union council and school levels.

Published in Dawn, November 29th, 2016