KARAK: The Tanzeem-i-Asataza Pakistan has demanded of the authorities to appoint qualified teachers of schools and colleges on vacant key posts in Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Kohat.

Addressing a meeting of the organisation here on Thursday, the leaders of teachers said that people working on key posts on deputation should be relieved forthwith.

The meeting was presided over by central finance secretary of the organisation, Khairullah Hawari.

The participants of the meeting said that the posts should be advertised and filled through National Testing Service. They said that holding of transparent examinations in the presence of officials working on deputation in the board was not possible.

They participants of the meeting welcomed some steps of the education department but regretted that government failed to address some important issues in the education boards to restore trust of parents in the examination system.

They also expressed resentment over the failure of education department to release the salaries of 70 teachers of different cadres, who were recruited through NTS in March last.

They said that the quarters concerned were forcing the teachers to take to streets against the injustice. They demanded of the government to take notice of the inefficiency of the district education department.

SKIN DISEASE: Lieshmeniasis, a skin disease caused by sand fly, has broken out in Karak as more than 1,000 people have been affected by the disease in parts of the district.

The residents of Showanki, Koh-i-Maidan and other adjacent localities protested against the ‘improper treatment’ of the disease on Thursday.

The protesters claimed that 497 people were affected by the disease in the area so far. They demanded of the health department to carry out anti-mosquitoes spray in the area and provide free medicines and mosquitoes nets to the people.

Meanwhile, hundreds of people have been affected by the disease in Takht-i-Nusrati, Palosa Sar, Malagi Banda, Bahaderkhel, Nashpa, Nari Panos, Shnawa Totaki, Mardankhel, Totaki, Khuram, Dagar Nari and other localities.

Sources said that about 1,003 patients of the disease were recorded recently in different parts of the district.

Published in Dawn, September 9th, 2016