KOHAT: Lachi tehsil council chairman Mohammad Ehsan has said the workers have refused to accept the nomination of district development advisory committee chairman MPA Ziaullah Khan Bangash as the Kohat district president of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, he regretted that the party’s president was always nominated from the Kohat tehsil, ignoring other tehsils, which was an undemocratic move.

He said Mr Bangash had become unpopular among workers because of his poor performance over the last one decade.

Mr Ehsan said he would approach party chairman Imran Khan and former chief minister Pervez Khattak against the ‘grave injustice’ done to smaller tehsils and senior leaders.

He said all the workers were annoyed over the decision to impose Ziaullah Bangash on them.

MOBILE SERVICE SUSPENDED: The district administration suspended the internet and mobile services on the 7th of Muharram on Saturday.

Deputy commissioner Furqan Ashraf, district police officer Mohammad Suleman and others visited the imambargas and the command post to check the electronic monitoring of the security arrangements made for mourners’ processions.

Drones and helicopters were also used to check the security arrangements.

Meanwhile, social welfare department’s district officer Amjid Afridi during a visit to the shelter home in the Kohat city the other day asked the staff to remain vigilant and not allow any irrelevant person inside the centre in view of the sensitivity during Muharram.

FACILITIES SOUGHT: The Kohat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has demanded the launch of a one-window operation to facilitate businessmen to set up units in the small industrial estate.

The chamber members also demanded the establishment of a police post and construction of mosques in the estate during a meeting with former chairman of the parliamentary committee on Kashmir MNA Shehryar Afridi during his visit to the industrial estate the other day.

They expressed the hope that the MNA would raise these issues at the provincial level.

The industrialists accompanied by deputy director of the industrial estate, Tahir Khattak, also asked for KCCI’s own building. They also demanded construction of a labour colony.

They sought small and medium enterprises authority so formulas for different commercial edibles could be approved.

They called for setting up of food processing plants and holding of an industrial exhibition in Kohat.

Published in Dawn, August 7th, 2022