KOHAT: A local cement factory on Wednesday inaugurated two water filtration plants built at a cost of Rs6.4 million under its social corporate responsibility fund.

Speaking at a function on the occasion, an official of the factory said that Rs1.4 million had been set aside for maintenance of the filtration plants and a four-member staff had been appointed for their supervision.

He said they had already completed work on installing water filtration plants in three mosques with a cost of Rs3.5 million.

He said the factory’s management was providing funds for community development, adding it had paid hundreds of scholarships to the students of Kohat University of Science and Technology, Quaid-i-Azam College, and a technical institute.

The official said that the unit had also been contributing to the operational cost of the Al-Khidmat Hospital, had provided it an ambulance and an X-Ray machine. He said the factory’s management had planted over 50,000 saplings in the area to check pollution emitted by it.

ARRESTED: The Mohammad Riaz police station officials arrested two persons for violating a ban on firing in the air in Tappi area on Bannu Road on Wednesday.

The culprits were held after they were seen in a video on social media indulging in festive firing at a wedding ceremony with Kalashnikovs.

District police officer Sohail Khalid, who had already ordered a crackdown on such people, had asked the police to arrest the culprits.

The accused were identified as Tahir Khan and Tanveer Khan. The police registered a case against them.

Published in Dawn, August 5th, 2021