KOHAT: Adviser to the chief minister on information Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif has stressed the need for tribal youth to adapt to innovation to cope with emerging challenges.

He was speaking at an event organised by the youth of Orakzai district at the Kohat University of Science and Technology here on Saturday.

Mr Ali said such gatherings were necessary to share thoughts, experiences, intellectual growth and strengthen cultural bonds.

Speaking on this occasion, Dr Muslim from the varsity’s faculty of chemistry, said social cohesion was the need of the hour to check divisions among the youth. He said tribal youth had to work for peace in their region.

The participants demanded establishment of the skills training centre in Orakzai.

FLOOD WARNING: The Kohat district administration on Saturday issued a red alert and asked the residents of the villages located on the banks of the Indus River, which was in high flood at Khushalgarh, to shift to safe places as water level continuously rose.

The police checkpost at the bridge on the KP side has already been vacated.

The residents of Shadipur, Pasta Sanda, Chor Lakki Kamar and Khushalgarh have been asked to stay away from the banks of the river as a very high flood coming from Nowshera could pass it any time.

Rescue 1122 spokesman Yasir Khattak, who visited the area along with deputy commissioner Furqan Ashraf, told Dawn that the water level had risen by several feet and was still rising.

Rescue teams with boats, safety jackets and emergency medicines have been deployed at the place to meet with any eventuality, he added.

Published in Dawn, August 28th, 2022