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CM to inaugurate oil refinery project in Karak: MPA

2016-11-28
KARAK: Adviser to the chief minister on prisons, MPA Qasim Khan Khattak, said on Sunday that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had approved an oil refinery, two colleges and a small dam for Karak district.

Speaking at a ceremony held to inaugurate a road project in Shagi Lawagher here, he said that Chief Minister Pervez Khattak would inaugurate these projects during his visit to Karak on Tuesday (tomorrow).

Mr Qasim said that the chief minister would inaugurate work on the oil refinery, commerce college, Karak model school, girls degree college, Latamber, and Latamber dam.

On this occasion a number of political activists announced to join Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.

The adviser also approved a drinking water scheme for the area on which Rs6 million wouldbe spent. He said that the oil refinery in the district would create job opportunities for the local people, while Latamber dam would resolve the drinking water problem of the area.

He said that Lawagher dam scheme would be completed with Rs380 million to provide drinking water to the people of his constituency. He said that work on Karak-Darratang road had been started to link Karak district with Mianwali. He claimed that it would prove a mini-economic corridor for the people of Karak as business activities would boost up with the completion of the project.

TEACHERS DEMAND: Tanzeem-i-Asateza, Karak district, has demanded upgradation of class-IV employees and timescale for them.

The demand came in a meeting of Tanzeem-iAsateza which was chaired by its district presi-dent Nek Badshah here on Sunday.

The meeting noted that the class-IV employees had been ignored by successive governments in promotion and timescale, saying that these people also deserved to be treated as equal citizens. It demanded of the government to promote these employees on the basis of length of their services.

COMMITS SUICIDE: A first year student of a private college allegedly committed suicide in Tabbikhwa area here.

Police sources claimed here on Sunday that Rahimullah, a resident of Garh Jawarkhel, had consumed poisonous pills after exchange of hot words with his family members and died on way to hospital. His body was handed over to his relatives after postmortem at a local hospital. Correspondent