LOWER DIR: Dir Qaumi Jirga on Friday settled a longstanding property dispute between two tribes here.

The dispute remained unsolved in courts since 1968 as both the Osakhel and Utmankhel tribes claimed ownership over the Shatai Dara lands stretching over hundreds of acres.

Dir Qaumi Jirga led by a former MNA Sahibzada Yaqub Khan started making efforts to resolve the matter and finally succeeded in bringing the rival parties to the negotiating table.

A function to this effect was held in Shatai Dara area, where Lower Dir deputy commissioner Mohammad Zubair Khan Niazi and district police officer Ikramullah Khan were also in attendance.

The officers thanked the jirga members and the warring parties for settling the decades-old dispute that had claimed several lives in the past.

SCHOOL: The residents of Takoro area of Jandol on Friday complained the authorities had failed to reconstruct the dilapidated building of a government primary school in Loye Shah village.

Talking to reporters, they said the children were forced to study under the open sky due to the bad condition of the building.

The area elders said 300 children were studying in the school. They demanded of the high-ups of the education department to take notice of the matter.

Published in Dawn, February 11th, 2023