MANSEHRA: The police have registered a case against unidentified officials of the irrigation department after a man, who was stated to be a Wapda employee, was swept away by the flooding waters of the Ichar Nullah after the spillways of the Kotkay

Dam were opened here the other day.

The FIR was registered on the directives of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Speaker Babar Saleem Swati after the family of Mohammad Arshad, 55, alleged that he was returning home from duty on Saturday evening when he was swept away by waters after the dam’s spillways were opened without prior warning.

Mr Swati has ordered an inquiry into the allegations, assuring the family of justice.

According to the FIR lodged with the Lari Adda police station, a complainant, Mohammad Nawaz, stated that his brother, a Wapda employee, was returning home from work when the sudden discharge of water from the dam’s spillways swept him away, and his body was later recovered downstream in the Gandia area.

“My brother died due to criminal negligence by the dam’s staff. Those responsible should be arrested and brought to justice,” the complainant said.

The body was handed over to the family after completion of medico-legal formalities.

The police have registered the case under Section 322 of the Pakistan Penal Code and launched an investigation to identify and arrest those responsible.

COMPUTER EDUCATION: Jamaat-i-Islami’s divisional emir, Abdul Razzaq Abbasi, has said that his party is providing computer education to hundreds of thousands of young men and women in the Hazara division to help them earn a sustainable living.

“The Bano Qabil programme is underway across the division, where we have established high-tech computer laboratories and are training youngsters to earn online,” he said while speaking at the launching ceremony of the initiative in Oghi here.

JI district emir Jamil Jehangiri, tehsil emir Oghi Riaz Osama, and others also spoke.

Mr Abbasi said that the party was working on a comprehensive strategy to bring economic change to people’s lives.

He criticised the federal government for failing to address poverty and other challenges faced by the public.

Published in Dawn, May 4th, 2026