KARAK: The tripartite alliance of the major opposition parties for local government elections has decided to also include PML-N in their alliance in Karak district to give tough time to the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and its allay Jamaat-i-Islami.

In this regard the alliance, including Pakistan Peoples Party, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl and Awami National Party, formed a three-member committee to negotiate arrangements with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leadership at the district level.

This was decided in a meeting of the alliance chaired by ANP leaderNawabzada Mohsin Ali Khan here on Saturday. The meeting was attended by the district leaders of the three parties, including PPP and JUI-F. It discussed the ongoing preparations of the alliance for the LG elections and stressed that they should activate their workers for the elections.

The meeting decided that the alliance would hold its meeting fortnightly to increase contacts and evolve a clear strategy for the elections.

During the meeting Mr Khan suggested that PML-N should also be included in the alliance on district level to strengthen the alliance and the leaders of other parties endorsed his suggestion.

The participants said that the alliance wanted to give tough time to the PTI and Jamaat-i-Islami and added that other political parties would be welcomed in the alliance.

The committee formed for contacting PML-N includes PPP dis-trict president Khursheed Khan as its head and JUI-F district general secretary Maulana Ismail Haqqani and ANP district organiser Haji Ilyas as its members. The meeting decided that distribution of seats on all levels would be completed in the next meeting.

The meeting also passed a resolution promising to earmark one per cent of the oil and gas royalty to scholarships for poor students of the district so that they could continue higher education.

THREE KILLED: Three people were killed in different incidents here on Saturday.

Police said that a trader of Amberi Kallay was killed in Palosa Sar. Malik Wazir Khan, uncle of slain Aizaz, informed Sabirabad police station that his nephew had gone with a levy constable, Fakher Sayab, to Palosa Sar, where he was killed.

He lodged an FIR against Sayab and two unknown persons.

In another incident, a young girldied when a container of boiling water fell on her in her house in Ghundi village. The victim, daughter of Hasan Badshah, was taken to district headquarters hospital, Karak, but she did not survive.

In Nari Panos village of Banda Daud Shah, a young man Jehanzeb was killed over old enmity.

Qadirullah, a relative of the deceased, registered FIR in Banda Daud Shah police station against Kashif Khan and Ghaniur Rehman.

DBA ELECTION: Jan Alam advocate of JUI-F was elected president of the District Bar Association (DBA), Karak, for the fourth consecutive term while Abdul Waheed advocate secured the slot of general secretary here on Saturday.

Other elected officer-bearers include Baghdad advocate senior vice-president; Shah Mohammad joint secretary and Abdul Nasir librarian. The elections were supervised by advocate Sakhi Janan.