SWABI: Senior members of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F on Monday boycotted the election for the slots of party’s district chief and general secretary as the split in the party seems to be deepening further in Swabi after the elections for the tehsil chapters were also boycotted by the leaders denied tickets.

When the election process began, provincial naib emir Maulana Attaulhaq Darvaish, Mufti Chand Bacha and their supporters decided to stay away from the election.

Maulana Darvaish, who wanted to contest election for the district emir’s slot, and Mufti Bacha for general secretary, said some prominent leaders who rendered sacrifices for the party did not have the voting right, thus making the process non-transparent and forcing them to boycott it.

The rival group is led by party’s central naib emir Maulana Fazal Ali and Noor Islam. When the Maulana Attaulhaq group decided to boycott the election it was not persuaded to review the decision.

Later, Maulana Ali was nominated district chief and Mr Islam general secretary, respectively.

However, Maulana Attaulhaq group declared that the election result was not acceptable to them.

WOMAN KILLED: A woman was killed and two other people were injured when a tractor-trolley rammed into a rickshaw in Chota Lahor on Monday.

A woman identified as Mohammad Sattar’s wife was killed on the spot. Two people were injured in the incident, who were shifted to a hospital in Peshawar in serious condition.

FIR LODGED: Fazal Subhan, a resident of Shahmansoor, told mediapersons on Monday that he had lodged an FIR in Zaida police station against two doctors for conducting wrong operation on his wife because of which she later died.

He said about a week ago, operation of his wife was conducted by two doctors in a local private hospital and later when her condition deteriorated they had to take her to Peshawar.

He said both the doctors remained with him till late night, but later they did not attend his phone calls while his wife remained unconscious. He said the doctors in Peshawar told him that the woman expired due to wrong operation. “I am a poverty-stricken person and want justice,” he demanded.

Published in Dawn, April 2nd, 2019