SWABI: Leaders of Local Government Employees Federation (LGEF) on Tuesday demanded of the government to release funds for the tehsil municipal administrations across the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to enable them to pay withheld salaries and pensions to their employees.

Talking to mediapersons here, the federation’s chairman Shaukat Ali Anjum, president Anwar Kamal Khan, patron-in-chief Shaukat Ali Kayani and others said majority of TMAs across the province were facing financial crunch due to which they were unable to pay salaries and pensions.

Mr Anjum said the employees of different TMAs had been kept deprived of their salaries and pensions for many months, forcing them to knock at the doors of local council board, the finance department, the secretary local government and rural development and accountant general office.

He said when workers could not get salary or pension on time, how they would survive in the present high inflation period.

Anwar Kamal demanded of the caretaker government to take practical steps for solution to the longstanding problems of employees.

Mrr Kayani said the accountant general office should take immediate steps to restore the personal ledger accounts (PLAs) of workers and ensure the payment of salary and pension without delay.

SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES: An eight-year-old girl, who was seriously injured in a firing incident in Salim Khan village on Oct 3, succumbed to her injuries in a Peshawar hospital on Tuesday, her family said.

Raheba Khan remained under treatment for five days in the ICU of Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar.

A young man, Shah Zeb, was also killed in the firing.

Separately, the police arrested a man with Rs66,000 fake currency notes and ice drug in Parmuli area of Razaar tehsil the other day.

SHO Parmuli police station Shahzad Khan said the cops signalled a motorcyclist to stop at a blockade erected near the police station, but he sped away. However, he said the policemen chased and caught hold of him.

He said the man had concealed fake currency notes and ice drug in secret places of his motorcycle. He was identified as Abdullah, hailing from Amankot village.

Meanwhile, the Chota Lahor police also arrested a proclaimed offender, Irfan Khan, and recovered over four kilogrammes charas from him.

Published in Dawn, October 11th, 2023