SWABI: The police have held a worker of the Tarbela dam extension project after a Chinese woman accused him of trying to rape her.

The woman runs a shop at the camp area of the project being executed by the Chinese Sino Hydro Company in Tarbela.The company filed a written complaint with the Topi city police, insisting the worker had tried to rape the woman.

It, however, didn’t reveal how she foiled the bid.

The complainant demanded registration of an FIR against the suspect, a resident of Gurghusthi village in Ghazi sub-tehsil of Haripur district.

The police said they had registered a case against the suspect and began investigation.

They said the man would be dealt with under the law if the rape charge turned out to be true.

JUI-F PROTEST: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl on Thursday announced a large number of it activists from the district would take part in the Aug 31 rally in Peshawar showing the people’s disapproval of the prolonged

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf sit-in in Islamabad.

The announcement was made during a meeting, where preparations for the Aug 31 rally were examined and finalised.

District emir of the party Maulana Attaul Haq Darvaish chaired the meeting.

He told participants that JUI-F had planned the Peshawar rally against the PTI sit-in in Islamabad and that it would show the people’s disapproval of the acts and policies of the ruling party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

“We are committed to showing the nation that the PTI chief’s (Imran Khan) pre-polls claims of changing the people’s life for better have turned out be false and that his party ruling the province didn’t enjoy the people’s support anymore,” he said.

Darvaish said the PTI had shattered the people’s dreams.

He said party activists and sympathisers from all across the province would participate in the Peshawar rally in large numbers.

“The rally will prove to be a great sign of the lack of the people’s confidence in the provincial government,” he said.

Published in Dawn, August 29th, 2014