KOHAT: The chairman of central disciplinary committee of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf retired Lt-Gen Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah on Tuesday announced entering the practical politics, and called for doing away with ‘groupings’ in the party.

Addressing a function in Shakardarra here on Tuesday, the former governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said successive governments had kept southern districts of KP deprived and if the unfair treatment continued the people would demand a separate province.

He said the resource-rich southern KP had been receiving billions of rupees in oil and gas royalty, which were not accounted for, regretting that people lacked basic necessities of life.

Gen Hussain, who is also adviser to the PTI chairman Imran Khan, expressed dismay over the vested interests in the party and stressed that they would have to rid the party of these elements. He elaborated that there were different groups at the district and divisional level in the party and the MPs wasted energies to bring down each other in the eyes of people.

He said that parties thrived on workers who should not be ignored, adding he would make his utmost to bring the annoyed workers or groups back into the party fold.

Gen Hussain said he would contest the coming general elections and bring about real change by enforcing the vision of Imran Khan.

SNACKS FACTORY SEALED: The district food controller and food inspector on Tuesday raided a snacks factory on the main Rawalpindi road in Togh Bala-1 on public complaints and sealed it for using substandard raw material, oil, ghee and unhygienic conditions.

The factory owner failed to produce valid licence and his case was sent to Peshawar and after confirmation of charges he could be fined Rs40,000, additional assistant commissioner Abbas Afridi told journalists.

Meanwhile, the officials of healthcare commission, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Tuesday raided medicine shops in rural area of Kharmatu and sent samples of alleged spurious medicines to a laboratory in Peshawar.

PHONE RAYS HARMFUL FOR CHILDREN: District coordinator of lady health workers programme Dr Kifayatullah has urged parents to keep mobile phones away from the reach of children as the rays can damage their mental and physical health.

Answering queries at a programme on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Radio FM 92.4 on Tuesday, he said the mothers should feed their own milk within half an hour of the birth of babies, according to a handout.

He said the parents should give polio drops to children below five years of age any time the lady health workers visited them.

Published in Dawn, November 22nd, 2017