NOWSHERA: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government would reactivate all sick industries in the province within two years.

Addressing a public gathering after inauguration of a small dam project at Dag Ismailkhel, Pabbi, here on Thursday, Mr Khattak said that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led government was rapidly progressing to fulfil all promises made by the party with people during elections and clarified that all sick industries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would be reactivated within two years.

Earlier, he was briefed about the PHA housing scheme, Jalozai, and the small dam project.

The chief minister said that they were expecting full compliance by the government officers concerning fulfillment of the PTI agenda, adding that there was no room for those em-ployees who could not adjust their expenses in their salaries.

`Pervez Khattak himself would be accountable to the Accountability Commission,` the chief minister said, adding that 80 per cent corrupt officers would be in jail when the commission would start functioning to its capacity. He said that all government resources were being utilised for fulfilling the agenda of PTI in the province.

He said that corruption could not be eradicated through hollow slogans and Abid Sher Ali should stop the ongoing corruption in Wapda.

`Only those who had made record in corruption in the previous government are portraying our government as failed,` he said.

He said that change under the PTI government was visible as no one could get any bribe against appointment while all contracts of development works were given through open tenders. He said that they were trying to revamp the existing schools, hospitals and colleges instead of constructing new buildings without any purpose.

He said that all organs of the local government would be empowered and all development works would be done through them. He said that the land record in Khyber Pakhtunkhwawould be computerised within two years while land record of Mardan had already computerised.

On this occasion, provincial ministers Mian Jamshiduddin and Mahmoud Khan and DCO Nowshera Zakaullah Khattak were also present.

Three killed over old enmity Three people were killed and a passer-by was injured when two groups clashed in Bara Banda village here on Thursday.

Police said that Ishtiaq Khan, 20, and Sufaid Khan, 22, were returning to Bara Banda after appearing in a local court in Nowshera Cantt when some motorcyclists opened fire on them. As a result, the two died on the spot while a passer-by was injured. In retaliation, the family members of Ishtiaq and Sufaid attacked the house of the opponent party, killing Pir Mohammad and setting his house ablaze.

A villager, Murtaza Khan, said that initially the police failed to stop the mob from destroying the household items of Pir Mohammad as they were armed with sophisticated weapons.

The protesting people also blocked the Nowshera-Mardan road for over five hours.

In-charge police post Bara Banda,Iftikhar Khan, said that the enmity between the two families was running from last many years, which had already claimed lives of three others in 2012.

The bodies of Ishtiaq and Sufaid were taken to the district headquarters hospital, Nowshera, for autopsy.

Sami for protecting religious leadets Chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Maulana Samiul Haq has said that the government has failed to protect religious leaders in the country.

`We have repeatedly appealed to the government to protect religious leaders in Karachi, but it has failed to do so,` he said in a press statement here on Thursday.

Maulana Sami said that terrorists were wandering without any check.

He termed the killing of three students of Jamia Darul Khair at Gulistan Johar, Karachi, and the murder of central deputy secretary Maulana Mufti Usman Yar Khan, an open aggression.

He said that the people of Karachi observed a complete strike against the killing of Mufti Usman, but the government did nothing to protect the religious leaders.