PESHAWAR, Oct 25: Corps Commander of Peshawar Lt-Gen Hamid Khan has stressed the need for setting up more check posts at all entry points leading to quake-hit towns and tent villages so that possible trafficking of children could be checked and collapsed houses may be protected from thieves.

Public representatives, including district, tehsil and union council nazims, should be involved in the relief and rehabilitation operation, said the corps commander while speaking at a briefing given to him at the Corps Headquarters on the status of relief activities, according to an ISPR press release issued here on Tuesday.

He said that the check posts should jointly be manned by military and police officials for better maintenance of law and order, stressing enhanced coordination at the local level so that relief could reach all survivors in the quake-affected areas of the NWFP.

RELIEF GOODS: The army continued ground and air operations in the affected areas at full swing. Around 50 trucks of relief goods were dispatched from the army’s main operational base at Mansehra to seven remote villages of Balakot, 14 villages of Garhi Habibullah, 28 villages of Battagram and 10 villages of Shinkiari sectors. Ten trucks loaded with 520 tents, 9,061 blankets and 3.6 tons of other supplies reached Abbottabad from the PAF Base, Chaklala.