CHITRAL: To ensure foolproof security to the foreigners working on different development projects in the Chitral district, a special security audit of the sites has been carried out by the senior police officers to identify loopholes and rectify them.

The audit process also included mock operations to test the level of preparedness of the force and the steadfastness of the security apparatus.

District police officer Mohammad Furqan Bilal told mediapersons that although Chitral was ideally peaceful, security of foreigners could not be ignored.

He said the police were always on alert to deal with any eventuality.

He said the anti-riot force had also been reinvigorated to disperse protests peacefully by using modern techniques and approaches of mob dispersal to keep the law and order situation under control.

LABORATORY SOUGHT IN CHITRAL: The people of Chitral have expressed concern over delay in extending the functions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food and Halal Food Authority to Chitral where spurious food items, including milk and meat, are on sale making consumers vulnerable to diseases.

In a press statement issued here on Saturday, village nazim of Jughoor, Sajjad Ahmed Khan said only opening the office of the food authority would not suffice and a high-tech laboratory was unavoidable for testing validity and quality of the food stuff, especially milk, meat, ghee, cooking oil and confectionaries.

Mr Khan said samples of many food items could not be taken to the laboratories in Peshawar as variance took place naturally in their nature, especially milk, thus necessitating setting up of a laboratory in the district.

Published in Dawn, November 25th, 2018