DERA GHAZI KHAN, Oct 9: A woman who runs the canteen of a girls schools has been elected councillor from the urban union council No 5 of the Dera Ghazi Khan tehsil.

Begum Nasim Akhtar told this scribe the other day that she had come into politics for the first time. She has been a social worker before joining the politics. She claimed that she was the most popular figure in her constituency.

She said she never felt hesitation in going to a police station to help people. “When I went a police station to secure the release of a youth of my constituency, the SHO gave me respect,” she said.

She said the staff of B-Division and city police stations which fell in her constituency were cooperating with her. She said she had been to the Wapda and municipality offices, police stations and courts with the people of her constituency and everywhere she was treated with respect. However, she regretted that her colleagues in the tehsil council were not cooperating with her.

Begum Nasim said the Dera municipality was not providing sweepers and sanitary staff. She said she went several times to the tehsil Nazim but he did not pay attention to her demand. She requested the district and tehsil Nazims to help her in resolving the problems of the common man.