KARAK: A local jirga has resolved to resist bids to shift a sports complex project to be executed in the suburbs of the Karak city.

The demand was made at a meeting on Friday chaired by the jirga’s president and former district nazim Sharif Khattak.

The participants were informed that the sports complex had been approved at a cost of Rs350 million to be built on a 150 kanal of land selected out of the four sites on the recommendations of a committee of experts.

The meeting expressed deep concerns about the plans to shift the project to somewhere else in the PK-86, Karak-II constituency. They argued that district headquarters was the ideal place for such a project as people from every nook and corner of the district visited the main town on a daily basis.

The jirga members accused the local MNA of being behind the efforts to deprive the Karak city residents of the facility, and advised him against doing so.

They demanded of the provincial government to launch work on the sports complex without delay.

TWO SHOT DEAD: Two persons, including a widow, were shot dead in separate incidents on Friday.

Habib Ahmad, brother-in-law of the slain woman, got registered an FIR with the Banda Daud Shah police, stating that their neighbor Luqman Gul opened fire on the victim, 42, from the rooftop of his house when she was fetching water from a well. She died on the spot. The accused managed to escape. The complainant said the women of the two families had argued over some minor issue a day earlier.

Meanwhile, the police officials said Sadar Khan, a resident of Bogara, Takht-i-Nusrati, was shot dead over unknown reasons. He succumbed to injuries while being shifted to the tehsil headquarters hospital.

The body of the deceased was handed over to relatives after autopsy.

The relatives of the deceased got registered an FIR with the Takht-i-Nusrati police station.

Published in Dawn, September 20th, 2020