KARAK: The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited has launched a drive against illegal gas connections taken from the main transmission line supplying gas to DI Khan and other parts of the country and lodged FIRs against scores of people in Takhti Nusrati tehsil.

Police sources said here on Saturday that a special team of the company along with a police party disconnected about 30 illegal gas connections in the tehsil during a raid.

The SNGPL has also allegedly referred the names of some known people, including Sajjad Ahmad Khan, uncle of MNA Shahid Khattak, former tehsil president of traders Malik Mujahid Mehboob, Khairullah Hawari and others, to police station for lodging FIRs against them for stealing gas.

The sources said that Takhti Nusrati police station had registered FIRs and started raids to arrest the alleged gas thieves.

The SNGPL sources said the campaign would continue to clear gas supply to parts of the country. They said that all those who would take law into own hands would be brought to justice.

SCHOOLS’ CLOSURE: Tanzeem-i-Asataza Khyber Pakhtunkhwa president Khairullah Hawari has demanded of the government to open all educational institutions from August 14. In a statement issued here on Saturday, he said all sectors had been affected due to spread of Covid-19, but the most affected of them all was education sector. He said the students had suffered a lot because of the closure of educational institutions.

Mr Hawari said the private educational institutions had also suffered as they were dependent on fees of the students. He demanded of the government to pay special grant to the private educational institutions so they could pay salaries of the staff and meet other expenses.

Meanwhile, parents of students of government girls’ high school, Ghundi Mir Khankhel, demanded of the district education officer (female), Karak, to post science teachers to their school.

The parents, including Najeebullah, Shah Baraz Khan and others, told mediapersons here on Saturday that positions of all science subject teachers in the school had been vacant for the last one year.

Published in Dawn, July 19th, 2020