MANSEHRA: The doctors and lower grade employees of the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital reduced the duration of their stril(e to three hours for the day after the medical superintendent and police assured them on Monday that the police would arrest within the next 12 hours the people who thrashed their colleagues on duty.

`We have limited our strike from full day to three hours only after medical superintendent assured that police would arrested suspects who attacked and injured a doctor,` president of the Young Doctors Association Faheemul Haq told reporters after holding talks with KATH medical superintendent Dr Javed Tanoli.

Earlier, the MS and police high-ups held talks with doctors and requested them to end strike.

Dr Haq said the current was the month of Ramazan when patients from across Hazara division came to the hospital in large numbers and therefore, the doctors decided to shorten their strike.

`If the attackers of doctor are not arrested, we will go on complete strike on Tuesday,` he said. The KATH MS has already lodged an FIR with the city police against four people for beating up Dr Ansar on duty last Friday.

LAWYERS BOYCOTT COURTS: The lawyers boycotted courts in Mansehra to protest former PML-N Senator Nehal Hashmi`s diatribe against judiciary and joint investigation team over inquiry into corruption charges against the ruling Sharif family.

General secretary of the District Bar Association Fahad Habib told reporters that lawyers stayed away from the proceedings of the court on the call of the provincial bar association. He said Nehal Hashmi should be taken to justice for flaying and threatening judges and JIT.

NAAT COMPETITION: The Right to Live, a nongovernmental organisation, will hold a national Naat competition for the people with disabilities next week.

RT L chairperson Mohammad Bilal told reporters on Monday that the people from across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, both men and women, would participate in the annual event to be held in a local hotel on June 10. Correspondent