KARAK: The local farmers have stressed that growing more berry trees in the district will not only increase production of quality honey on commercial scale, but also create job opportunities for people.

The demand was made at a meeting chaired by farmers’ association president Iqbal Khattak on Saturday.

The participants said that the honey produced from berry trees was of high quality, which was being exported to foreign countries. They said that the environment of Karak was suitable for growing berry trees.

SHOPKEEPER KILLED: A shopkeeper was shot dead by unidentified attackers near Takht-i-Nusrati on Friday night.

The police registered a case on the complaint of Murtaza, father of the slain Intikhab Alam, saying that his son was going home after closing his shop when unknown attackers shot him dead.

He did not nominate anyone in the FIR.

The body was shifted to the tehsil headquarters hospital, Takht-i-Nusrati, and was later handed over to family after postmortem.

Published in Dawn, July 21st, 2019