KOHAT: The civil society and business community here have expressed concern over missing batteries of solar lights from Rawalpindi road and a section of road from Peshawar square to KDA town.

They have demanded installation of lights on the road leading to the divisional headquarters hospital and at the Peshawar square, which sink into darkness after evening.

In a statement, Tajir Ittehad chairman Ameer Khan Afridi criticised the tehsil municipal administration (TMA) for the missing lights and batteries and called for their immediate installation at key points on the roads and the women and children park to facilitate the visitors.

He said that the solar plates had changed direction and were mostly broken, but nobody was paying heed to repair or replace them.

The TI leader also criticised state minister Shehryar Afridi and MPA Ziaullah Bangash for making tall claims, but not taking steps for completion of the burns and trauma centres in KDA hospital, which were sanctioned in 2010.

He claimed that life-saving drugs were not available in the hospital and patients were asked to bring them from the market.

KILLED: A man was killed and another injured when armed motorcyclists opened firing on a moving passenger vehicle near Nasratkhel on Hangu Highway here on Saturday.

Police said that Iqbal Khan and Shad Khan were going from a graveyard when the motorcyclists opened fire on their vehicle. Iqbal died on the spot, while Shad Khan was injured. The body and injured were taken to the KDA hospital.

CONSTRUCTION OF ROAD SOUGHT: The elders of tribal subdivision of Darra Adamkhel have demanded early construction of a section of Kohat-Peshawar road in front of the hospital built on self-help basis.

The elders, including Malik Lateef Afridi and Malik Mohammad Sabir Afridi, said in a statement that the local tribesmen had established a full-fledged hospital because they had to take patients to Kohat and Peshawar in the presence of the local civil hospital which lacked facilities.

However, they said that NHA was delaying construction of the road due to which sewer water entered the hospital building. They said that the new hospital was laced with all facilities, but its inauguration was being delayed due to absence of the road.

Published in Dawn, December 8th, 2019