Dreaded outlaw arrested

CHARSADDA: The police on Friday arrested a dreaded outlaw involved in heinous crimes in the limits of Sardheri Police Station, official said.

Talking to reporters, District Police Officer (DPO) Shafiullah Khan said Javed Iqbal was involved in crimes of heinous nature, including murders, robberies, land grabbing, kidnapping for ransom and extortion in Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshera and Mardan.

 He said the proclaimed offender had created a reign of terror, forcing people to give him extortion. "The arrest of the hardened criminal was something like a challenge for the police force and Deputy Inspector General of Police, Mardan Range, Muhammad Saeed Wazir had tasked me to nab the outlaw at the earliest," said the DPO.

GPS No 2 win cricket title of Primary Schools Kids Games

Monday, September 16, 2013 - Peshawar—Muhammad Irfan guided Government Primary School No. 2 Babara to 5 runs victory in the cricket final event of the District Charsadda Primary Schools Kids Games being played at Cricket Ground Charsadda on Sunday.

Assistant Commissioner Charsadda Saif-ul-Islam was the chief guest at the cricket and football finals. District Education Officer Moinuddin, District Sports Officer Jamshed Baloch, AD Sports Arshad Khan, teaching staff, officials and large number of schools kids and spectators were also present at the two finals.

In the cricket final GPS No. 2 Babara Charsadda won the toss and elected to bat first by setting up 82 runs target after playing the allotted 10 overs match.

Muhammad Irfan struck elegant 36 runs with four boundaries. Besides Irfan, Usman and Imran also made 17 and 10 runs respectively. For GPS No. 1, Taimur Khan and and Sajid Ali took two wickets each while Abdul Ahad and Gul Rehman got one wicket each.

In reply, GPS No. 1 bundled out for 78 runs with Sajid Ali was the highest contributor who made 24 runs with one boundary. Usman and Jabbar Khan scored 14 and 11 runs respectively.

For GPS No. 2 Babara Muhammad Irfan, with his right-arm off spin bowler took three wickets and was also declared as Man of the Match. Tajamal, Rahim Khan, Ihsan Ullah took two wickets each.

In the football final GPS Babara No. 1 beat GPS No. 2 by 4-3. Muhammad Atif, Gul Siraj, Inayat Ullah scored one goal each for the winner while for the runners-up team Jaffar Ali, Aurangzeb and Babar Khan scored one goal each.

At the end, the chief guest AC Charsadda Saif-ul-Islam awarded trophies. He, on this occasion, also distributed cricket, football, volleyball and basketball equipments of worth Rs. two millions among the youth of all UCs, Primary, High and Higher Secondary Schools of District Charsadda.

In his brief chat, Saif-ul-Islam advised the schools kids to take active part in healthy sports activities. He said the youth are the future of the country and involving them in healthy activities would lead to establish a healthy society.

He said it is for the first time in the history of District that games have been arranged for the school kids, child labour, special kids, people from the trade unionists and unjuman-e-tajaran, Charsadda.

He also lauded DSO Jamshed Baloch for initiating healthy activities at grassroots. A total of 20 schools from all across the district are taking part in the 20-days festival.—APP

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Record 14,179 children enrolled in schools in eight days

Record 14,179 children including girls and boys were enrolled in different schools of Peshawar Division during last eight-day enrolment campaign of the provincial government. This was told during a meeting held here with Commissioner, Peshawar Division, Sahibzada Mohammad Anis in the chair.

Those who attended include Deputy Commissioners, Peshawar, Nowshera and Charsadda, District Education Officers (DEOs) and Assistant District Officers (ADOs) education. The meeting reviewed progress on enrolment of children in schools, acceleration and bringing improvement to attract maximum number of girls and boys to schools. During the meeting the Deputy Commissioners of all three districts of the division presented eight-day performance report (September 10-18) to Divisional Commissioner.

According to the report 8,059, 2,937 and 3,183 girls and boys were enrolled in district Peshawar, Charsadda and Nowshera, respectively during the period. The commissioner was told that enrolment is increasing with each passing day while seminars and walks are also being arranged to sensitise the people in this regard, which is bearing encouraging results.

Addressing the meeting, Commissioner, Peshawar Division, Sahibzada Mohammad Anis directed further acceleration of the enrolment campaign to be continued till October 15, and arrangement of awareness programmes for attracting parents and highlighting the benefits of education in mosques, Hujras and educational institutions on daily basis. He said that besides Ulema, teachers, civil society, non-governmental organisations and public awareness programmes should also be held through political workers and local political leaders.

Business Recorder

A story of woe

On Thursday September 12 a poor student, Zahidullah, of a local Madrassah in Charsadda, while riding his bicycle was hit by a heavy truck, breaking the lower part of his body. He was rushed to the Dist. Headquarters Hospital Charsadda, which, as it does in most cases, referred him to Peshawar public hospitals for better medical services. He could not be provided the required medical services not only in the Charsadda hospital, but also to my surprise, and anger at the most important and old hospital, Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) in Peshawar. For approximately 18-24 hours, he was provided only blood at the LRH, and that too by his relatives as he was bleeding heavily.

Nothing was being done to help this poor badly injured boy, no x-ray was taken leave alone any surgery or bandages being provided. The poor relatives, indeed very poor financially, out of fear, in case further delay happened, kept quiet. He was then once again moved to another private hospital, which is very expensive. I don't know if he was provided any treatment there but I personally feel that the new PTI government needs to take these public institutions to task. There should be treatment provided to poor patients and they should not be carted off too other institutes, Why were they not able to treat him at LRH? The CM KP, the Health Minister, Mr. Shaukat Yousafzai, and the higher authorities of the health department should taken action on all these heart-saddening health problems of the poor residents of KP.

MOHAMMAD FAYYAZ
Charsadda, September 15.