LAKKI MARWAT: Deputy commissioner Jehangir Azam Wazir visited several rural localities here on Sunday and convinced a number of parents to get their children vaccinated against the crippling polio disease.

The refusal cases were reported from remote villages in several union councils during June 17 anti-polio drive. Mr Wazir along with health department officials met the parents in Matora, Shahbazkhel, Abdulkhel and Langerkhel Hathi Khan.

He told the parents that two drops of vaccine in each round were essential to keep their children safe from polio. He asked the parents not to link vaccination of children with resolution of their local problems and cooperate with the vaccinators.

Later, the health department’s vaccinators administered polio drops to children of reluctant parents in the presence of deputy commissioner. Meanwhile, the district administration launched a comprehensive exercise on Sunday to reach the missed children and immunise them against the crippling disease.

GANG BUSTED: Police claimed to have arrested six members of a robbers’ gang here in Naurang town.

SHO Zaheer Khan told a press conference on Sunday that on June 17 a resident Abbas Khan reported that armed men looted cash, gold ornaments and licenced weapons from his home. He said that the police registered a case and started investigations.

“The area police spread a net of informers in Kotka Atlas Khan where the robbery incident had occurred,” he said, adding that the police soon traced the alleged robbers. He identified the arrested suspects as Kalimullah, Ali Rehman, Aminullah, Aakif, Sakoon and Zulqarnain and claimed to have seized the looted money, ornaments and weapons from them.

PUBLIC MEETING: A local political group known as Malik Riaz Khan Group held a public meeting in Naurang town here on Sunday apparently as part of its preparations for coming local bodies’ elections.

The group chief, Riaz Khan, got a warm welcome at the venue where elders of Qutabkhel tribe, including Mumtaz Khan, Hashim Khan, Naseebullah and others, announced their support to the group. Mr Riaz said on the occasion that his group would field consensus candidates in the local government elections.

Published in Dawn, June 24th, 2019