KOHAT: Provincial president of minority wing of Pakistan People’s Party, Pir Naseeb Chand, has demanded of the Auqaf Department to rehabilitate graveyards of the minorities and take steps for their cleanliness.

Talking to mediapersons here on Tuesday, he said that minorities’ graveyards in Kohat, Mardan, Charsadda and Peshawar were in bad shape which needed urgent attention of the Auqaf Department.

He said that broken boundary walls should be repaired and garbage lifted from the vicinity of the local graveyard.

He also demanded making paths between the graves so that the visitors could pay respects by going closer to the graves.

VEHICLES MISUSE:Misuse of official vehicles by the children and relatives of bureaucrats has turned them into wreckage and a big amount was being spent on their repair every month.

Former central cultural secretary of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Waseem Anjum Shinwari, said in a statement that senior officials had more than one vehicle which had been used for private purposes by their families.

He said that often the vehicles were driven to picnic resorts like Naran and Kaghan and to other districts but there was no restriction on them from the government. He demanded of the chief minister and chief secretary to order inquiry into the misuse of new vehicles.

CHEHLUM: The officials of district administration and army distributed food items among the mourner on the occasion of Chehlum of Hazrat Imam Hussain here on Tuesday.

The processions were taken out from imambargahs of Said Habib, Qaumi and Rizvia which gathered at Milad Chowk where ulema addressed the mourners.

Eleven processions were also taken out on Hangu Road from different imambargahs.

The mourners took out a procession from Pat Bazaar which after covering some distance returned to the imambargah. Strict security measures were taken by the police, army and FC and the city had been sealed.

Deputy commissioner, Kohat, Khalid Ilyas and other officials visited the monitoring and control rooms and remained in contact with the caretakers of imambargahs. The DPO told media persons that the Chehlum was observed peacefully.

Published in Dawn, October 31st, 2018