KARAK: Poll candidates in Isak Chountra union council here will make arrangements for women to cast their votes during the re-polling on July 30.

It is to mention here that the women of the union council had partially participated in the 2013 general elections.

They didn’t participate in the May 30 local government polls.

With the women participation in the election process high turnout is expected.

Talking to Dawn, JI candidate for tehsil Council Maulana Mehboob Janan said the decision was taken in a meeting.

He said women should be given a chance to participate in the electoral exercise as barring them from elections was a breach of their fundamental rights.

He said women were playing a significant role in all fields of life and keeping them away from political process was against the democratic norms.

He said all the candidates would make sure that the women polling stations in the union council remained peaceful.

Irfanullah Khattak, candidate for general councillor, said without women participation in the election process real democracy couldn’t be established.

He asked the women to participate in the elections without any pressure.

WATER SHORTAGE: The elders of Tarkhakoi village and adjoining localities have complained of acute water shortage and threatened to take to the streets if the public health engineering department didn’t ensure smooth water supply within 10 days.

Speaking at a meeting here on Sunday the villagers said all the five tube-wells supplying water to Tarkhakoi, Draba Kalay, Mechar Banda, Sraykhwa and other localities were in need of repair.

They claimed the people of Tarkhakoi were purchasing drinking water from a private tube-well, getting a gallon at Rs10.

The participants lamented the elected representatives had failed to resolve the chronic issue of water shortage.  

The elders demanded that the faulty tube-wells should be made functional without delay to ensure uninterrupted water supply to the residents in this hot weather.

They lamented that the local public health engineering department had miserably

failed to resolve the longstanding issue of the people.

Published in Dawn, July 27th, 2015

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