5 killed in Dera road accident
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Nov 23: Five people were killed and seven others injured in a road accident occurred in the Frontier Region here on Tuesday.
A passenger van, going to Cheena from Darzenda area of FR Sherani, turned turtle when it reached Karham, killing five personsand injuring seven others. The injured were taken to nearby hospital. The accident occurred due to speeding.
Meanwhile, unidentified armed men gunned down Gul Zaman alias Babrhi in the jurisdiction of Cantt police station.
Police said unknown assailants opened fire on Gul in Modal town killing him on the spot. The assailants managed to escape after the incident.
The police handed over the body to relatives after postmortem. —Correspondent
Workers without salaries
MANSEHRA, Nov 23: Over 1,600 doctors, lady health visitors, clerical staff and midwifery students of Mother Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) programme are without salary and stipend for the last four months across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
“We have been suffering owing to withholding of salaries by MNCH from Aug this year and running the financial affairs on borrowed money,” said one of the affected employees on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, an official of the programme said DFID had not released the budget as yet and it was why the salaries and stipends could not be paid to workers. —Correspondent
Afghan killed on road
LANDI KOTAL, Nov 23: An Afghan national was struck by a speeding trailer in Jamrud on Tuesday.
The khasadar force impounded the vehicle while its driver managed to escape from the scene after the incident.
Meanwhile, a seven-year-old boy, Manan, died of Malaria at Jamrud Civil Hospital. In another incident, security forces arrested two suspected persons in Malikdin Khel during a search operation and recovered 90kg charas from their possession. —Correspondent
Chitral lawyers’ strike
CHITRAL, Nov 23: The lawyers of Chitral on Tuesday boycotted the camp court of additional sessions judge Booni to protest against his alleged misbehaviour with the lawyers and the litigants.
The call of the strike had been given by the president of the district bar association Khurshid Hussain Mughal. In a unanimously passed resolution, the association alleged the judge misbehaved with the litigants.
The resolution pointed out that it was first ever strike of the lawyers of Chitral against any judge, which showed the magnitude of their grievances.
The lawyers vowed to continue strike till transfer of the judge and warned that any lawyer appearing before his court would face cancellation of his practice licence. —Correspondent
Gas facility
LAKKI MARWAT, Nov 23: Federal government has approved a project to provide gas facility to 19 villages of the district, claim Saifullah brothers.
Talking to a delegation of elders MNA Humayun Saifullah and MPA Anwar Saifullah said survey work on the project would soon be launched, according to a press release issued here on Tuesday.
They said the gas project was part of the uplift package the federal government had approved for the district.
They said the facility would be extended to other localities in next phases. They informed that provincial government had approved over Rs10 million for repair and maintenance of flood affected road infrastructure. “Besides water supply schemes will be launched in the area”, they maintained.
They promised to upgrade the government high school Bachkan Ahmadzai to higher secondary level, next year.—Correspondent
Medical camps
PESHAWAR, Nov 23: The Pakistan Psychiatric Society (PPS) in collaboration with Iftikhar Psychiatric Hospital is holding free medical camps for the people inflicted with psychological and mental illnesses in Nowshera and Charsadda on Thursday.
Patients have been asked to reach the district headquarters hospitals in Nowshera and Charsadda and get examined by specialist doctors from the Lady Reading Hospital, Khyber Teaching Hospital and Iftikhar Psychiatric Hospital, Peshawar.
Dr Mian Iftikhar Hussain, focal person of the PPS for psychiatric ailments in the flood affected areas of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said the patients will also get free medicines.
The patients, he said, coming for follow-ups must bring their earlier record. He said a series of free medical camps would continue in the affected districts. —Bureau Report