KARAK: Tanzeem-i-Asataza Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa president Khairuallah Hawari has condemned the ‘harsh’ attitude of the female education officer with the teachers visiting her office.

Talking to mediapersons on Monday, he resolved to besiege the office of DEO female if she continued misbehaving with the teachers visiting her office to get their issues resolved.

He asked the DEO to resolve all the pending cases of the female teachers without delay, or they would launch a protest movement.

STAFF SHORTAGE: Local elders have demanded provision of staff, drinking water, buses for pick and drop of students and laboratory equipment at the boys degree college in Banda Daud Shah.

Talking to mediapersons on Monday, they said the college had been short of staff since its establishment in 1992.

They regretted that the college’s examination hall destroyed in an explosion over five years ago was still awaiting reconstruction. The elders also demanded launching of BS classes in the college without delay.

DENGUE CASES: Three members of a family are said to have contracted dengue in the Old Bazaar area.

Mustafa Khattak, head of the affected family, informed the mediapersons on Monday that his wife, daughter-in-law and sister-in-law had been affected by dengue virus and had been hospitalised.

He said they were poor and could not bear expenses of the treatment and asked the health department to fumigate the area as soon as possible to eliminate the virus.

Published in Dawn, November 19th, 2019

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