LAKKI MARWAT: Bannu Qaumi Jirga has asked the government to increase compensation amount for the families of deceased women vocational trainers and provide jobs to their male relatives.

The jirga was held at the office of traders’ body in Bannu city on Sunday which was attended by local elders and political activists.

Four women handicraft teachers affiliated with an NGO were killed by miscreants in Epi town of North Waziristan district on Feb 24.

The elders said the deceased women were the bread earners of their families. They said that the compensation amount of Rs500,000 to each family was not sufficient and the government should increase it.

Malak Maqbool Khan, Kamal Shah, Hafiz Tayyab Shah, Inamul Haq and others spoke on the occasion.

They said the attack took place in a broad daylight and the government should take the attackers to task. They also demanded of the government to provide jobs to male members of the deceased women’s families.

They thanked MNA Zahid Durrani for raising the issue on the floor of the National Assembly.

GUTTED: A house caught fire in Kotka Nek Nawaz Chak Dandan locality of Bannu district on Sunday.

Witnesses said the fire broke out suddenly and engulfed the house of Bakhtullah in the rural locality. They said that fire engines of Rescue 1122 reached the place and extinguished the fire.

Published in Dawn, March 1st, 2021