KOHAT: The management of the Small Industrial Estate (SIE) has demanded expulsion of the irrelevant people from the labour colony here and allotment of the quarters to the genuine labourers.

Talking to Dawn on Saturday, assistant director SIE Tahir Khattak said a complaint had been lodged with the divisional commissioner and the Kohat deputy commissioner about the issue.

He said the deputy commissioner had directed the additional deputy commissioner to call the labour officer to his office and collect the data of the inmates of the colony, but no headway had been made. He said people other than labourers were occupying the quarters at nominal Rs4,000 per month rent.

BONUS FUNDS: Opposition MPA from the oil and gas producing KP-80 constituency, Amjid Afridi, has denounced the decision of the petroleum social development committee to spend Rs100 million bonus funds on purchase of machinery for the KDA hospital. In a statement on Saturday, he clarified that according to the formula devised for distribution of bonus funds, 50 per cent of it should be spent in the production area.

He said it was the responsibility of CM’s adviser Ziaullah Bangash and state minister Shehryar Afridi to arrange funds for the purpose from the resources of the provincial and central governments.

GRANT: Kamran Banagsh, special assistant to the government on information and higher education, and Syed Ghazan Jamal, special assistant on excise, taxation and narcotics control, have said the government is working for welfare and solution to the problems of journalists of the merged areas.

They were speaking at a ceremony after handing over a Rs2 million chequeto the Orakzai Press Club.

They appreciated the role of journalists of merged areas for highlighting the people’s problems.

SPECIAL PERSONS: Speaking at an open kutchery called by the Orakzai deputy commissioner in Kalaya, the special persons demanded loan facility, stipends, sewing machines and jobs.

Deputy commissioner Mohammad Khalid assured the special persons of provision of jobs, stipends and sewing machines.

He said a team was being constituted to devise a special package for the differently able persons.

The deputy commissioner also distributed 50 wheelchairs among the persons with disabilities.

In a separate development, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police chief Dr Sanaullah Abbasi has directed the police investigators to leave no stone unturned in reaching killers of a four-year-old girl.

During a visit to the house of the victim in Baba Khel area of Karak, he offered Fateha for the departed soul and said soon the criminals would be arrested as he himself was monitoring the investigations into the case.

Published in Dawn, April 4th, 2021