SWABI: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Department has virtually forced the subject specialist teachers of the province to move the court for getting conveyance allowance during summer holidays.

This was stated by subject specialists and their leaders here the other day. Abdul Latif, district president of All Teachers Association, told this scribe that Dilnawaz, a subject specialist, had filed a writ petition about one and a half years ago in Peshawar Service Tribunal and emerged victorious.

After the verdict, more teachers formed groups to fight their case and the process is still underway.

Fida Mohammad, a teacher who along with some other colleagues had filed the case of about 800 teachers in the tribunal, said that the teachers were ready to pursue their case.

Teachers from different cadres said that once the court had given a verdict in the case it should be implemented across the board and the others should not be compelled to approach the court again for the same purpose.

However, they said that the finance department allowed the conveyance allowance only to those teachers who had filed their cases.

KILLED: A young man was shot dead over a trivial issue in Anbar village of Chota Lahor tehsil here on Friday.

Registering an FIR, Neelofar Begum, a widow and mother of deceased Arsalan Khan (21), said that they were sitting in their house at Mohallah Blarkhel when someone knocked at the gate and as his son stepped out Salman Saeed, Akbar Ali and Liaquat Khan opened fire on him.

The injured Arsalan was taken to Bacha Khan Hospital Complex, Shahmansoor, but he succumbed to his injuries before recording his statement. She demanded immediate arrest of the alleged killers.

About cause of the incident, DSP Taj Mohammad Khan said that Arsalan was having friendship with one Muneer Khan of the nearby village and the three had warned him that he should break friendship with him. The police arrested Liaquat and have said that the other two would be rounded up soon.

Published in Dawn, February 22nd, 2020