MANSEHRA: The Oghi tehsil council on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution seeking the district status for their area.

Mian Ghulam tabled the resolution saying the creation of the district will benefit the neglected areas of Agror and Tanawal in Hazara division.

Convener Qazi Zahidullah chaired the session of the council having representation from 11 union councils.

Mian Ghulam said the local residents had been demanding the district status for Oghi for a long time for own development and therefore, the government should accept the demand without delay.

Tehsil nazim Raja Bashir told the session that the leadership of his party, Jamaat-i-Islami, would visit the tehsil on April 11 and therefore, he and other council members would seek its support and cooperation on the demand for the district status, which would bring about development in the region, especially Agror and Tanawal areas.

Political adviser to the chief minister Zargul Khan, who was also in attendance, said he would make every effort to declare Shinkiari a tehsil.

He said the PTI government wanted to put the backward and neglected parts of the province on the path of development and prosperity and therefore, it created a district and 11 tehsils in the province.

WOMAN ‘POISONED’: A family on Thursday alleged that its female member died after in-laws poisoned her in Khaian area of Shinkiari.

Kulsoom Bibi, 25, died at the Ayub Medical Complex, Abbottabad.

The body was given to the family for burial after postmortem was performed on it at the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital, Mansehra.

Mohammad Qasim, a mosque cleric in Havalian area, complained to the police that her sister, Kulsoom Bibi, was given poisonous substance by her in-laws and therefore, she was shifted to the Ayub Medical Complex Abbottabad in critical condition.

He claimed his sister died before he reached the hospital.

The cleric said his sister was married to steel worker Pervez three years ago and that she had no child.

The Shinkiari police registered a case and began investigation to ascertain the cause of death.

Published in Dawn, April 7th, 2017