SWABI: Local leaders of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz here on Saturday demanded of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to constitute price control committees for Ramazan.

In their separate meetings, they said that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf had made big claims of `change`, but the track record of its government showed that its leadership failed to control prices of essential commodities.

Attaul Haq Darvaish, JUI-F district head, said that the balloon of `change` had already burst and the people knew that the PTI leaders had made hollow slogans to mislead them for political gains.

He said that they knew about the opportunist politics of the PTI leadership who would now again start knocking at the people`s doors for votes.

PML-N district general secretary Dildar Khan said that they had noticed during the previous Ramazan that the traders openly overcharged consumers. `The retailers violated the price list without any official checl(,` he recalled.

TEACHERS APPOINTED: As many as 52 new female secondary school teachers (SSTs) have been appointed in BPS-16 on contact basis in different government schools of Swabi district.

The appointment order issued by the Directorate of Elementary and Secondary Education, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, says that following recommendation of the departmental selection committee the appointment of female candidates has been ordered against the SST posts in BPS-16 on fixed pay plus other allowances as admissible under the rules.

According to details, 11 SSTs have been appointed for teaching biology and chemistry, 22 for mathematics and physics and 19 SSTs for general subjects.

Sources said that with the new appointments the requirement of teachers had been fulfilled in the public sector schools and none of the institutions in the district was short of staff.

KP Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser said here on Saturday that when PTI assumed power after 2013 elections its leadership had planned to deliver in education sector and it fulfilled the pledge.