KOHAT: Adviser to the chief minister on information technology Zaiaullah Bangash announced on Wednesday that 80 mosques and imambargahs in Kohatwould be put on solar power at a cost of Rs30.2 million.

Speaking at a function to distribute solar plates and batteries among 12 mosques in Urban- 1 and city mosques, he said subsequent to the solarisation of 35 mosques in Urban-5 and Jungle Khel localities, solar plates had been distributed among 12 mosques in PK-82. He said worship places would now get uninterrupted power supply.

SHOPS SEALED: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Safety and Halal Food Authority on Wednesday sealed two shops for selling expired cold drinks and banned China salt.

Acting on public complaints, the officials raided a shop in Sher Kot and found a large number of expired cold drinks there, and sealed the outlet. A shop was sealed in Ustarzai for selling China salt.

Meanwhile, a drug control team sealed an illegal medicines shop in Darra Adamkhel tribal subdivision, and booked owners of two drugs stores on Bannu Road for selling Indian medicines, a press release said on Wednesday.

SECURITY PLAN: The police have finalised a security plan for Christmas by declaring high alert and calling out Frontier Reserve Police for the protection of all the churches in the district.

All the public routes around the churches have been sealed for the people except the Christian community members.

District police officer Javed Iqbal on Wednesday directed the circle DSPs and SHOs to monitor the security of churches.

He asked them to devise security plans for functions after holding meetings with the priests.

Meanwhile, the city police foiled an attempt to smuggle hashish from Orakzai to southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at Bannu bypass road the other day.

SHO Asif Mehmood was busy in snap checking along with his team when he stopped a car at Shahpur checkpost. On checking, they recovered four kilogrammes of fine quality hashish hidden in secret cavities of the car.

The suspect Shabbir Khan of Junglekhel, Kohat, was taken to the police station.

LAID TO REST: An official of the Hungarian oil exploration company, Yousuf Gilani, who died of Covid-19 in Islamabad, was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard the other day.

Published in Dawn, December 24th, 2020