MANSEHRA: One person was killed and three others sustained critical injuries when their car was hit by a landslide in Upper Kohistan on Sunday.

The incident occurred in Barseen area on the Karakoram Highway. According to police, members of the Tablighee Jamaat were on way to Dasu from Barseen when the incident occurred.

The local people shifted the injured, including Mohammad Khushal, Mohammad Mumtaz, Mohammad Yazeed and driver Gul Ruhan, to the civil hospital in Dasu. However, the doctors pronounced Gul Ruhan as dead.

It was the second such incident in a week wherein a vehicle was hit by a landslide in Upper Kohistan.

TEHSIL NAZIM ELECTION: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and its rival Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz have been giving high importance to the tehsil nazim election to be held on Monday (today) and would announce names of their candidates at the time of polling to avoid any defections.

The office of tehsil nazim has been lying vacant since PML-N tehsil nazim Khuram Khan Swati had resigned and contested general elections last year.

The PTI and PML-N held their separate meetings in this connection here on Sunday.

PTI MPA Babar Saleem Swati, general secretary Shahid Rafique and other office-bearers attended the meeting and discussed how to secure the nazim’s seat. “We will disclose the name of our candidate just before the polling,” Mr Rafique told mediapersons.

PML-N is the single largest party in the tehsil council. Its former federal minister Sardar Mohammad Yousuf chaired a meeting to finalise the party candidate, but didn’t announce his name.

LAID TO REST: An army soldier, who was buried alive under an avalanche at Siachen Glacier during duty the other day, was laid to rest at his native village here on Sunday.

A contingent of army soldiers had brought body of Shan Shah from Siachen to his hometown Giadarpur. The funeral prayer of Shan Shah was offered at local government higher secondary school, which was attended by people from all walks of life besides Pakistan Army personnel.

Published in Dawn, January 21st, 2019