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MANSEHRA, Dec 1: The women members of district council Mansehra have threatened to step down if they were not paid salaries and other benefits being paid to the Nazims of the union councils.
The women councillors, including Gul Naz Shah, Jamila Khatoon, Dr Shaheen Zameer, Farakh Khalid, Jamila Begum, Arshad Bibi and Shahida Shaheen, told a news conference here on Friday that the women, who entered politics despite immense community pressure, were being denied their due role in the community development.
They said that real democracy demanded that the women, who were more than 50 per cent of the population, should be provided all opportunities and benefits so that they could work more efficiently for the social uplift of the society.
The women representatives called upon President Gen Pervez Musharraf that the women were being ignored in the allocation of benefits which was hampering their performance.
They said that the government should fix salaries and other benefits for them.
CHARSADDA: The elected members of all the union councils of the Charsadda district here on Friday announced that they would start a protest movement against the government decision of keeping them deprived of the salary and other financial facilities announced for Nazims and Naib Nazims.
They said that under a well-hatched conspiracy they were being deprived of their rights. They said that they would fight for their rights and on Dec
10, they would not let the Nazims attend the councils sessions.
Teaching staff: The chairman of district education committee, Mansehra, Aftab Khan, found the majority of teaching staff absent from duty during visits to different schools and referred the matter to the executive officer for action.
The chairman of the education committee along with other members paid surprise visits to a number of primary and secondary schools at Baffa, Shinkyari and Daryal areas the other day and found the majority of teaching staff absent, said an official statement.
Aftab Ahmad told Dawn that most of the teachers were absent, adding that for an appropriate action the matter had been referred to the EDO.
