KOHAT, March 13: For 83 vacant seats of women, 55 candidates have filed nomination papers to contest local bodies by-elections scheduled to be held on March 28.

According to the final list issued by the Kohat election office, candidates have filed nominations for all vacant 24 women seats in the six urban union councils while for 59 rural council seats only 31 candidates have filed nominations, leaving 28 seats still vacant.

Out of the total 162 women seats, both for general and peasant councillors, only 79 seats could be filled in the local government elections. Therefore, a vast majority of women has remained unrepresented in the district council.

This year the workers of Aurat Foundation Resource Centre, Kohat, and the Citizen Action Committee jointly played a key role in creating awareness among the rural and urban women population to participate in local bodies polls which was necessary for the solution of their problems.

In this regard a number of seminars and meetings were arranged by the Aurat Foundation in far-flung areas of Kohat to convince the male population to allow their women to contest the elections, claimed Miss Saima, Manager of Aurat Foundation Resource Centre, and Mr Jehanzeb Jani, Coordinator of Citizen Action Committee, while talking to Dawn on Friday.

BISE EXAMS: The Kohat Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education has announced that the biology and physics papers of 9th and 10th classes earlier scheduled for March 26 and March 27 will now be held on March 30 and April 2, respectively.