AGREEMENT ON PRICE LIST:
The district administration and traders on Friday settled a dispute over punishment for the violation of the official price list.
Under the agreement, traders will strictly follow the price list issued by the district price control and review committee.
“We want end to artificial inflation. If traders follow the official price list, we will neither act against them nor will we fine them,” deputy commissioner Aamir Khattak told traders with a meeting in his office.
The traders had observed a shutter-down strike on Wednesday after the district administration fined 52 traders over profiteering.
President of the traders body Hafiz Ijazur Rehman said the district administration should respect traders and treated them as respectable citizens.
He also said traders not following the official price list should be fined instead of being taken to the police stations.
The deputy commissioner said the administration would continue cracking down on artificial inflation and hoarding.
He said trades should exhibit price list at prominent places in shops and stores and strictly follow it. Khattak said both the district price and review committee and district consumer protection councils would be expanded by induction of more members.
He announced Rs3 million for the city’s cleanliness and Rs1.5 million for the expansion of slaughterhouse.
Traders assured the deputy commissioner that they would follow the official price list.
Meanwhile, the Mansehra municipal committee on Thursday fined eight butchers for selling ‘unstamped’ meat.
Published in Dawn, March 7th, 2015
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KP schools named after victims of APS massacre
Family members hold photographs of students who were killed in an attack by Taliban gunmen on Army Public School (APS) during a protest. — APP/file
PESHAWAR:
Dozens of government-run schools are being renamed in the country after the the students killed by militants, belonging to the proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, in a massacre at an army-run academy in the northwestern city of Peshawar in December, an official said Friday.
The school attack by six gunmen killed 153 people, with most of the victims students, is seen as having hardened Pakistan's resolve to fight jihadist militants along its lawless border with Afghanistan.
A total of 107 schools in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region will bear the name of the slain Peshawar students, said the local education minister, Atif Khan.
“We will never ever forget these students and their sacrifices,” Khan said.
TTP, headed by Maulana Fazlullah, claimed the attack and termed it reaction to the military offensive launched by Pakistani security forces in one of the volatile tribal regions, North Waziristan, against the militants.
“I heard some good news today after losing my son,” said Mohammad Tufail Khattak, father of 15-year-old student Sher Shah.
Tufail Khattak said his slain son wanted to become a journalist and influence public opinion through his writing.
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Road named after slain APS principal
NOWSHERA: Pakistan Army Engineers Centre commandant Brig Mohammad Asif Akhtar has named a newly-constructed road after the slain principal of Army Public School (APS), Peshawar, Tahira Qazi and announced that other roads would be named after great leaders, police and students of the tragedy.
The decision was taken in a meeting here at Risalpur, which was also attended by civil member cantonment retired Col Pir Muslim and cantonment executive officer Mohammad Abdullah.
The commandant reviewed the ongoing development work in Risalpur cantonment and recommended naming other roads after people like police officer Safwat Ghayur, major general Sikander Shami and Sir Syed Ahmad Khan.
He said that the Pakistan Army was determined to root out terrorism. He said that they could not forget the innocent students killed in the APS attack.
Appreciating the courageous stand of late APS principal Tahira Qazi the meeting participants also supported to name the newly-constructed main road after her. Meanwhile, the police arranged training for the watchmen of government and private schools and colleges at Nowshera police lines on Thursday so that they could respond to any emergency situation.
Addressing the gathering, district police officer Rabnawaz Khan said that they were trying to enhance the capacity of watchmen of educational institutions to immediately respond in case of any emergency. He asked the watchmen to remain vigilant during their duty. He said that police would curb crimes with the support of local people.
Published in Dawn, March 6th, 2015
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Most Senators elected on merit: Siraj
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq on Friday said lawmakers rejected wealthy people and landlords in the Senate elections and that most Senators had been elected people on merit.
In a news release issued by the party’s provincial headquarters here, Sirajul Haq, who was elected as a senator from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, congratulated the Senators-elect.
He said money might have been used in the Senate polls in some cases but the process largely remained transparent.
The JI chief said all 40 candidates fielded by wealthy people failed to win Senate elections. He said Senators-elect from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had greater responsibilities and they would fight for the rights of the province.
Siraj voiced reservations about the existing electoral system and said the system required drastic reforms to block the use of money and other illegal tactics in the elections.
He said the federal government had set up a parliamentary committee to draft proposals for making changes in the relevant electoral laws but the process was very slow.
The JI chief urged the committee to come up with a roadmap and remove flaws from the electoral laws.
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, coalition partner of the JI, supported Sirajul Haq in the Senate polls. After winning elections, Siraj will quit the provincial assembly seat.
He was elected MPA from Lower Dir district in the 2013 general elections. He quit the provincial cabinet as a senior minister after he was elected the JI chief last year.
The JI chief asked the federal government to fulfil its commitment and form a judicial commission to investigate rigging in the 2013 general elections. He also said he wanted to see PTI members back in parliament.
Siraj said the proposed diversion of Pakistan-China Economic Corridor route would create a sense of deprivation among the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and some underdeveloped areas in southern Punjab.
He said the Chinese ambassador to Islamabad had already clarified his government’s position on the corridor but the federal government should also clarify position on it.
He clarified that his party would oppose change(s) to the multibillion dollar project.
The JI chief said his party would launch a countrywide campaign from April 5 to create awareness among the people of this redundant socio-economic system in the country. He said corner meetings and rallies would be organised at the district and ward levels to convey the party’s message to the people.
Published in Dawn, March 7th, 2015
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Head of seminary, 2 others convicted in rape case
MANSEHRA: The Anti-Terrorism Court, Abbottabad, convicted the head of a seminary and his two accomplices on Thursday for subjecting a First Year girl to rape in a moving car, and sentenced two of them to 14 years’ rigorous imprisonment.
ATC Judge Raja Masood also convicted a co-accused, who was driving the car when his accomplices were committing the crime, to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment.
The widely reported and condemned rape case took place on May 12 last year when cleric Qari Naseer, who is also the head of a seminary, and his two accomplices, Mohammad Faizan and Hussain Mushtaq, tricked the student into sitting in their car with help of an accomplice, Anam Bibi, a classmate of the victim.
The police arrested Qari Naseer and his two other accomplices and charged them with under the Anti Terrorism Act and different sections of Pakistan Penal Code.
After completion of arguments by the defence and prosecution, the judge pronounced the verdict, observing that the prosecution had proved its case against the three men.
The judge acquitted the female accused in the case.
It was the first case of its nature where convicts raped their victim in a moving car and pushed her out of the vehicle at the Gazikot Township after the incident.
Published in Dawn, March 6th, 2015
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agr itni takleef hai to koi new thread start kar le pti k lehe
@Qalandari this PPP blind jayala don't know that Murad Saeed has done a press conference and has provided proofs to prove that ANP gang wrong. If he has a fake degree then why didn't election commission took an action because they knew that it was a lie against him to reduce his popularity.
This moron should see that press conference.