ABBOTTABAD, April 18: All 46 union councils Naib Nazimeen of Abbottabad District on Thursday announced that they had resigned from their seats over the non-fulfilment of their demand with regard to the creation of a town or tehsil councils for them, and threatened they would start an anti-referendum campaign if their demand was not met.

Hamayun Khan Jadoon, who is President of the Naib Nazimeen organization, while speaking at a press conference at the Abbottabad Press Club in the presence of all the Naib Nazimeem, said that the Naib Nazimeem had been deliberately ignored for the last eight months as in the absence of Teshil council, they had no role to play in the current system of the local government.

He said that according to the local government ordinance, the power devolution system had remained incomplete without the participation of Naib Nazimeen in the government affairs.

They alleged that the district government had not played due role to solve this long-awaited problem and “we were told time and again that the government has taken up this issue but no result has emerged.”

He said the Nazimeen had delivered their resignations jointly to District Nazim Col (retd) Mustafa Jadoon during the ongoing session of the local council.

They said that if the government again did not bother to come out with the solution “then we will hold a meeting of like-minded councillors on April 25 at Abbottabad and possibly they all will resign from their seats by showing solidarity with us.”

Besides Abbottabad, no tehsil council exists in eight districts of the NWFP.

HELD: Local police have arrested Syed Sibt-i-Ahmed Rizvi, information secretary of PPP Abbottabad district for distributing hand bills and pamphlets against the referendum.