KARAK: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz central joint secretary Rehmat Salam Khattak has said that work on a road project linking the Karak district to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) route would start soon.

He was speaking at various public meetings in Takht-i-Nusrati tehsil here on Saturday. He said that the fruits of the recent visit of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to Karak would start coming soon.

He said that work on the road to link Karak with CPEC via Shakardara would be started soon and the mega project would create job opportunities for thousands of people of the area.

He added that the establishment of a campus of the women university and model educational institution would also usher in a new era of prosperity and development in education sector.

On the occasion, scores of workers of other political parties announced to join PML-N.

MAN ATTEMPTS SELF-IMMOLATION: A young man suffered severe burns after he doused himself with kerosene oil and set fire to himself in the Jail Chowk area on Saturday.

Police sources said that Shahid Hussain, a young man of Drab Kalay area, doused himself with kerosene oil and tried to burn himself. As a result of fire, he received serious burns.

The locals present on the scene rushed to put out the flames and rescued him.

He was shifted to the district headquarters hospital, Karak, from where doctors referred him to burn centre, Kharian in Punjab.

The motive behind the man’s self-immolation could not be ascertained. However, the locals claimed that he was a drug addict.

Published in Dawn, March 25th, 2018