TIMERGARA: Awami National Party leader Senator Zahid Khan on Friday inaugurated work on Banda Talash water supply scheme that will be completed with the assistance of RAHA project, funded by the UNDP. The scheme would cost Rs12.7 million.

On this occasion, people alleged that funds of the project were being misappropriated while the public health department was using pipes against the specification approved in the PC-1.

Addressing a gathering at Banda Talash, Mr Khan said that an inquiry would be conducted into the matter and if the department failed to satisfy the local people within a month, action would be taken against those found guilty.

POLICE DARBAR: District Police Officer, Lower Dir, Ghulam Habib has claimed that `thana culture` of bribery had been eliminated. He was addressing a police darbar at Timergara Police Lines the other day.

He said it was the basicduty of police to maintain law and order and provide security to the life and property of people.

He said that he would not tolerate slackness on the part of police.

He also listened to complaints of the officials and ordered action.

POLITICAL ACTIVITIES: Political activities concerning upcoming local government elections have started in Lower Dir while some parties have nominated their candidates for union, tehsil and district councils.

Ticket holders and party workers are being seen attending wedding parties and funerals. `It is difficult for us to miss any funeral prayer or wedding because voters like it,` Hakim Khan, a JI candidate for union council nazim, told this correspondent.

Talking to mediapersons, PTI district general secretary Ali Shah Mishwani said that Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and other ministers had disappointed the party workers in Lower Dir.

He said none of the party ministers had visited the district despite their requests.