LANDI KOTAL: The residents of Malagori subtehsil of Jamrud have demanded of the authorities to establish National Database and Registration Authority centre in their area.

Notables of the area including Ajmal Khan, Aurangzeb alias Bacha, Shah Nawaz and Sabz Ali Khan said that they had to travel to Jamrud for getting their Computerised National Identity Cards.

`It is time consuming and an additional financial burden on poor applicants, they added.

They said that women applicants were faced with additional problems as they had to be accompanied by a male member of family and then were made to wait for long hours in inhospitable conditions at Jamrud Nadra office.

The elders said that at times they were not allowed by the security forces to travel to Jamrud owing to imposition of curfew during search operations in the area. It was a source of constant delay in timely submission of new applicationsand acquisition of the new CNICs, they added.

They demanded of the authorities to establish a Nadra centre in Malagori for convenience of more than 50,000 local residents.

RECOVERY SOUGHT: Khyber Agency Handicapped Association chairman Niaz Bahadar Afridi has demanded early recovery of the missing president of the association.

Talking to journalists at Jamrud Press Club on Monday, he said that Sanaullah Afridi went missing from his office in Karkhano Market few days ago. He said that both Peshawar police and Khasadar Force in Khyber Agency failed to find any clue to his mysterious disappearance.

`Our missing colleague is a regular student of Khyber Medical College. He is also a kidney patient,` said Mr Bahadar. He added that the family of his missing colleague had no enmity with anyone nor had so far anybody claimed responsibility for his abduction.

He demanded of Khyber Agency political administration to help in early recovery ofSanaullah.