HANGU, Jan 11: Women councillors staged a walkout from the district council session here on Saturday to protest against discrimination in allocation of funds to the councillors.

The women councillors maintained that they were being ignored in the allocation of funds to the union Nazimeen and councillors. The women councillors were, however, brought back to the meeting by the Hangu Town Nazim.

The union Nazimeen had observed in a resolution that they would not give any funds to the women councillors and those elected on peasant and minority seats from the amount allocated to the union councils for development activities.

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