KOHAT: The Hangu police on Friday arrested a drug smuggler and seized 25 kilogrammes of hashish from him. He was carrying the drug to Bannu.

District police officer, Hangu, Asif Bahadar, in a statement, said DSP Abid Khan and Thall police station SHO Mujahid Hussain stopped a car on the road, and upon checking, recovered 25 packets of hashish weighing one kilogramme each.

A case was registered against the drug peddler, Lateef Khan, belonging to Bannu.

WORKSHOP: The Kohat social welfare department in collaboration with an NGO, Autocamp, on Friday organised a workshop for women to promote cottage industry and online businesses among them.

The chief guest was Amjad Afridi, district officer of social welfare department.

The daylong workshop included training sessions on business opportunities, including digital marketing, accounting and fashion designing. Trainers of the social welfare department trained the women. At the end, certificates were distributed among the women participants.

TREE PLANTATION: The forest department on Friday launched a tree plantation drive in Orakzai district, and also distributed 1,000 pine saplings among students and teachers of a government primary school in Gundki area.

On the occasion, the forest department officials said it was necessary to plant more and more trees to check deforestation in the region due to ruthless cutting of precious trees.

UPGRADATION SOUGHT: Kohat city mayor Qari Sher Zaman of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl has lambasted the provincial government for using brute force against protesting local body secretaries in Peshawar recently, and asked the authorities to accept their demand for upgradation of their scales.

Speaking at a meeting on Friday, he said many of protesting secretaries were from Kohat and had gone to Peshawar to express solidarity with their colleagues and raise voice for their rights.

Published in Dawn, August 27th, 2022