KOHAT: The district council took strong exception to the non-implementation of their unanimous resolutions regarding development work and some of its members staged a walkout on Thursday.

The council meeting was held at the District Council Hall, KDA, with convener Haji Abdur Rasheed in the chair. It was attended by district nazim Maulana Niaz Mohmmad and opposition leader Naseem Afridi.

Mr Rasheed briefed the members on how to present an adjournment motion and about the bylaws, call attention notice and privilege motion.

The councillors demanded that instead of sending their representatives the heads of the departments should themselves appear in the house to give satisfactory replies to their queries.

The house unanimously adopted a resolution demanding answers to the non-implementation of resolutions by the government departments and asked them to remove impediments in the way of development schemes.

Mohammad Iqbal and some other councillors walked out from the house in protest against the non-implementation of the past resolutions, but returned to participate in the proceedings on the request of the convener.

PROMOTIONS: The police departmental promotion committee, Kohat, confirmed 16 sub-inspectors of Kohat region in their own rank on Thursday. A notification to this effect said that the promoted sub-inspectors would be on two-year probation.

According to a press release issued here on Thursday, a meeting of the departmental promotion committtee (DPC) under the chairmanship of Akhtar Hayat Khan, regional police officer, was held in his office.

Meanwhile, a free eye camp was held in Tangi Banda by the Al Shifa Eye Trust Hospital on Thursday.

Dr Mohammad Obaid and Dr Mohammad Saqib checked over 300 patients at the camp and referred 80 of them to the hospital for further investigations and operations. Some of the patients were provided free glasses on behalf of the hospital. The chief organiser of the camp, Pir Tanveer Shah, said that such camps should also be held in other villages of Lachi tehsil.

Published in Dawn, April 29th, 2016