MANSEHRA: The nazims of Mansehra`s village and neighbourhood councils on Friday demanded the Supreme Court`s intervendon against the PTI-led government`s `conspiracies` to foil the local government system in the province.

`The ongoing financial year is about to end but 194 village and neighbourhood councils have yet to get the non-development part of their due budgetary share.

Under these circumstances, we wonder how this LG system will deliver the goods,` Safada village council nazim Basharat Ali told a meeting here.The meeting attended by village and neighborhood council nazims from Mansehra was called to decide future course of action against the government`s anti-LG plots.

The participants unanimously agreed to move the Peshawar High Court against the government`s `injustices` against local bodies, especially village and neighborhood councils.

Nazim Basharat Ali said it was ironic that the government had yet not released the final tranche of the due development funds for Mansehra local bodies though the current financial year was about to end.

`We have yet been without the annual honorarium. The government is to pay Rs370,000 to each village and neighbourhood council on this count but has so far given away just Rs70,000,` he said.

Another nazim, MehmoodTanoli, said under the non-development head of the budget, the provincial government was to release Rs300,000 each to all village and neighbourhood councils but it had released not a single penny.

`The councils haven`t paid rent of their offices and have been struggling to meet other expenses for almost one year,` he said.

Nazim Mohammad Kamran said the government had halved the development funds of local bodies last year and repeated it in the current fiscal.

`A cut of 20 per cent has been slapped on our development funds, which is unacceptable to us,`he said.

The nazim said ostensibly, the PTI government was bent on harming the local government system in the province and therefore, the Supreme Court should take a suo motu notice of it to ensure the system`s protection.ROUR OF A FAMILY KILLED: Four members of a family, including three brothers, were gunned down by rivals over a land dispute in Kolai Palas area of Lower Kohistan district on Friday.

District police officer Mohammad Shahid told reporters here that the people were fired at when they`re harvesting crops in Baira village.

He said the family of the deceased had named Milu Khan, Mohammad Munir, Shamadad and Azam Daraz as suspects.

The DPO said raids were being conducted to arrest the suspects.

GOODS DISTRIBUTED: The Right to Live, a nongovernmental organisation, on Friday distributed food packets to special persons in Mansehra.

Assistant commissioner Abdul Rehman and social activist Malik Mushtaq Khattana gave away the Rs5000 worth of packets to 150 visually-impaired people.