TIMERGARA: A foreign non-government organisation working in the health sector on Friday stopped all its activities in the district after a stay order by the Peshawar High Court, Swat Circuit Bench (Darul Qaza).

The Lower Dir paramedical association had moved the court against the Medical Emergency Relief International (Merlin) for managing government hospitals, pleading that government servants were not bound to be managed by a foreign NGO.

The Merlin`s district team leader Dr Irshad Rughani told Dawn on contact that the NGO had stopped all its emergency services, distribution of free medicines and had directed its staff to stop duties at hospitals till Dec 14.

He said the NGO had appointed male and female doctors and technicians at BHUs and RHCs in the district and provided the hospitals with free medicines and emergency services.

EIGHT INJURED ON ROAD: Eight persons, including a female lecturer and three children, were injured when two cars collided head on at Osakai in the jurisdiction of Ouch police station on Friday, police and hospital sources said.

They said the female lecturer, Ms Jannat, along with her children was going to Kalo Manai Talash from Chakdara in her personal car. But her car collided with another car coming from the opposite side, injuring eight people from both the vehicles.

Five of the injured were shifted to LRH Peshawar due to multiple head injuries and bone fractures, while three others were taken to THQ hospital, Chakdara.

The Ouch police registered case and began investigation.

IMRANSHOULDFOCUS ON KP: The adviser to the prime minister Amir Muqam on Friday aske d the Pakist an Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan to focus on the problems of unemployment, law and order situation and lack of health facilities being faced by the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

He was addressing a party meeting at the residence of Haji Syed Ghani at Ouch.

The PML N leader said that the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had voted the PTI to power for solution to their problems. `But Imran Khan ignored Pakhtuns and has been in a bid to topple the governments at the centre and Punjab,` claimed Mr Muqam.

He termed the PTI members` resignations as fake and asked Imran Khan to submit actual resignations so the government could hold fresh by-elections in their constituencies.

He announced Rs50,000 for the family of journalist Ihsanullah Qurishi who was killed in a road accident on Nov 11.