TIMERGARA: Awami National Party vice-president Hussain Shah Yousafzai on Wednesday stressed upon representatives of local government to serve their voters in a befitting manner.

Addressing a function after inaugurating the office of a village council chairman in Gaddar area, he said that the ANP believed in the public service as serving the people was the philosophy of late Bacha Khan.

He said that provision of services irrespective of caste and creed was the objective of the Khudai Khidmatgar Tehreek.

Mr Yousafzai expressed concern over the delimitation of PK-14 constituency and asked the Election Commission of Pakistan to restore the previous constituency.

He said that exclusion of the Khadagzai union council from the constituency was an injustice with the people, who would not accept it.

Newly-elected chairman of the Gaddar village council Farman Younus also spoke on the occasion.

Meanwhile, a man and his son were killed and four others injured when a passenger van plunged into a deep ravine in Sangolai area in the jurisdiction of Balambat police station on Wednesday, residents and Rescue 1122 sources said.

They said a rescue team shifted the dead and the injured to the District Headquarters Hospital, Timergara.

The deceased were identified as Abdur Raziq, 65, and his son Abdul Salam, 30

The Balambat police station registered a case and started further investigations.

Published in Dawn, August 11th, 2022