MANSEHRA: Two members of a tourist family were killed and three suffered critical injuries when a car they travelled in fell into a deep ravine in Loharbanda area of Kaghan valley on Thursday.

The accident occurred as the driver lost the car’s control on the Mansehra-Naran-Jalkhad Road.

The family was returning to Sargodha after a visit to Kaghan valley.

The Rescue 1122 personnel shifted the injured to the Naran civil hospital, where doctors pronounced Usman Qureshi and Habib Arbaz dead and referred the injured, including Hussain Jaffar, Syed Hamad and Hammad Sheikh, to the Ayub Medical Complex, Abbottabad, where the condition of one of them was stated to be critical.

AWARENESS: The women participants of a public forum have decided to create awareness of the harms of drug use among students both girls and boys.

“We will hold interactive sessions with students at their educational institutions about the harmful effects of the use of narcotics as well as sexual harassment,” former MPA Sajida Tabassum told the event, which was organised by Aawaz here on Thursday.

The participants, mostly women social activists, highlighted the issues of inheritance, sexual harassment, child labour, and those faced by transgender persons and people with disabilities.

Ms Tabassum said the social welfare department would also be taken on board before regularly launching the campaign at the schools in urban and rural parts of the district.

Published in Dawn, August 6th, 2021