Dispute claims two lives

KOHAT, October 31: Two people including a 10-year-old boy were killed by their rivals over a money dispute in Darai Khel area here on Monday.

Police said that Syed Shah and Ali Haider shot and killed Omair Ali and Tanveer Ali after exchange of hot words.

The Ustarzai police have registered a case against the accused on the complaint of Mukhtar Ali and launched investigations. — Correspondent

Permits for sacrificial animals

PESHAWAR, Oct 31: The department of home and tribal affairs of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has directed the divisional commissioners and deputy inspector generals (DIGs) of police to issue permits/rahdaris for cattle transportation to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas as an interim arrangement till further orders.

A statement issued here on Monday said that the directive had been issued to the officials of different districts including Peshawar, Kohat, Malakand, Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan that due to Eidul Azha the political agents of the concerned agencies and frontier regions would issue the permits.

However, the quota already fixed for each agency/FR and the standing operation procedure already circulated to them by the home and tribal affairs department should strictly be adhered to, the statement said. — Bureau Report

Call to restore Navtec

PESHAWAR, Oct 31: The People’s Student Federation has expressed grave concerns over the winding up of National Vocational and Technical Education Commission (Navtec) and demanded of government to immediately withdraw its decision, as it will deprive thousands of students from acquiring technical education.

Speaking at a press conference here on Monday, PSF Peshawar general secretary Nasir Khan said that Navtec was a suitable plan of the federal government wherein the students on completion of the course were given scholarships and tool kits, but it was discontinued for unknown reasons.

Flanked by a number of students and workers of PSF, he said that the youths in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had taken full advantage of the programme as they were the most affected people due to militancy, floods and poverty. — Bureau Report

Shortage of teachers

KARAK, Oct 31: The students of government degree college Banda Daud Shah took out a procession here on Monday and blocked the Kohat-Bannu road for traffic to protest against the shortage of teaching staff, unavailability of drinking water and other facilities.

The students led by Azam Khan marched from the college to the main Kohat-Bannu road and blocked it at Terri Chowk for traffic.

Addressing the students, Azam Khan said that the college had been established 12 years ago but it was still deprived of basic facilities. He said that shortage of teaching staff had badly affected their studies.

Later DSP Banda Daud Shah held negotiations and assured the students that their genuine problems would be resolved soon. Later, the protesters dispersed peacefully. — Correspondent

Burning of offices flayed

PESHAWAR, Oct 31: Pakistan Muslim League-N Woman Wing central general secretary Shazia Auranzeb Khan has condemnedthe attack and torching of party offices in parts of Sindh and termed it a cowardly act on part of the rival parties.

Sparking at a press conference here on Monday, she said that her party would continue to raise voice against ‘corruption and wrongdoings’ of the rulers, adding that PML-N workers could not be pressured through such tactics.

She said that the PPP had started taking such steps just to appease the United States as Mian Nawaz Sharif was against the drone attacks and handing over of Pakistanis to Americans, adding that Asif Ali Zardari was not following the philosophy of PPP founder Zufikar Ali Bhutto. — Bureau Report

Teachers’ demands

PESHAWAR, Oct 31: The office-bearers of the Pakhtunkhwa College Teachers’ Association (Pacta), Government College Peshawar chapter, have urged the Punjab government to accept the genuine demands of Punjab Professors and LecturersAssociation (PPLA) and save the educational institutions and future of the students.

In a joint press statement issued here on Monday, Pacta president Prof Gulab Shah and secretary general Prof Mohammad Arif said that it was due to the government’s stepmotherly attitude that forced the teacher community to come out on the streets for their rights.

They said the role of teachers in building a nation could not be ignored and it was they who nurtured the maturity in the minds of youth and mould public opinion in the right direction. — Bureau Report