KOHAT: The administration of Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST) on Tuesday accepted the demand of striking students to start the summer semester.

Officials said that now examinations would be held this month and the date sheet would be released next week. The summer semester for the students, who had failed in one or more subjects, would be held after two months.

The university administration also cancelled the expulsion orders for nine students, who had led the protests, and withdrew imposition of fine on them. The strike continued for six consecutive days during which the students boycotted the examinations and sealed the university to stop the entry of the staff.

WOMEN VOTERS: An observers` group for the local government elections, social consortium organisation, has held the election commission office in Kohat responsible for the low turnout of women in the past elections, saying wrong registration of women voters far away from their homes and security reasons have deprived them of casting vote.

According to the group`s coordinator, Mohammad Taqweem, a large number of women were deprived of polling vote because they did not know the procedure of polling. He said that no effort had been made by the election commission to increase the turnout of women voters.

He claimed that registration of at least 30 families from each mohallah was made at wrong polling stations, which had been causing problems for several years without any remedy in sight.

Meanwhile, police on Tuesday recovered all the things, which were stolen from a mosque in Lachi tehsil a few days ago,and arrested a suspect.

Police said that the incident had taken place at Farooq-iAzam Mosque and its caretaker Taj Ali had nominated one Agib Khan in the FIR. The police raided the house of the suspect and recovered a battery, regulator, water pump, two stabilizers, one UPS unit, one solar panel and a ceiling fan.

The suspect was presented before a judge who sent him on judicial remand to Kohat prison.

PROTEST: A large number of workers of Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan on Tuesday blocked the main Hangu-Kohat highway here to protest against the Hangu administration for not allowing its central leader to hold a public meeting there.

Sources said that Maulana Aurangzeb Farooqui sneaked into Hangu through Lachi tehsil because his entry had been banned in Hangu by the administration due to sectarian tension in the region.

Officials said that the administration did not allow the leader to hold a public meeting at Darozi Palosi because there was a serious threat to his life. The Kohat-Hangu highway remained blocl