KOHAT: Pakistan Peoples Party’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa information secretary Senator Robina Khalid has claimed the days of the ‘selected’ government are numbered and the proposed Pakistan Democratic Movement long march on Islamabad will prove last nail in its coffin.

Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, she said wrong policies of the government had made people’s lives miserable.

She claimed the cabinet ministers were involved in flour, sugar and petrol scandals, saying members of the ruling PTI received money to sell their loyalties in the last Senate elections.

Ms Khalid declared that the PDM long march would send a clear message to the ‘selectors’ to stop supporting the corrupt and incapable regime. She said the government had not launched any mega project except the BRT in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the last eight years.

ROAD REHABILITATION: Advisor to the chief minister on information technology Ziaullah Bangash on Sunday inaugurated the much-awaited rehabilitation work on the road from Gate No 3 of the KDA Town to the Divisional Headquarters Hospital.

The people had been appealing to the advisor to rebuild the road as they were troubled taking patients to hospitals.

They also held the local lawmakers responsible for delaying the road’s reconstruction as the latter wanted to give its contract to the communication and works department instead of allowing the KDA administration to execute it.

SDO communication and works department Eng Imdad Hussain told journalists that the road would cost Rs16.9 million and would be complete before the stipulated time.

In a separate development, the police arrested a drug peddler while smuggling ice drug and hashish to Kohat from Darra Adamkhel tribal subdivision on Sunday.

SHO Saddar police station Mohammad Fayyaz stopped a motorcycle coming from Shin Dhand area, and upon checking, seized three kilogrammes of hashish and 155 grams ice from him.

ILLEGAL FINES: The All Pakistan Goods Transporters Association has accused the traffic wardens of imposing illegal fines on them.

In a statement on Sunday, the association’s chairman Pir Ijaz Shah and president Rehman Noor alleged that the policemen also declared their vehicles as non-custom paid despite their registration with the excise and taxation office.

They appealed to provincial and Kohat division police chiefs to take notice of the matter.

Published in Dawn, March 1st, 2021