LOWER DIR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said that the wheel of development in the country was turning in the opposite direction as government had lost trust of investors.

He was addressing a monthly congregation of his party at Ahyaul Uloom Balambat. Hundreds of JI workers and local elders attended the event.

Siraj said that National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had also lost credibility by taking action only against opposition parties. He said that actions of NAB were tantamount to state within the state.

The JI chief said that ethnic and sectarian differences were being fanned under a planned conspiracy to weaken the country. He alleged that government jobs were being sold.

He said that opposition leaders had the right to speak openly against the government and its policies but they were sent behind bars for doing so.

He said that JI would convene a meeting of its executive council on October to devise its future plan of action.

VISIT: An inspection team of Khyber Medical University Peshawar on Thursday visited Timergara Medical College and examined different units of the under-construction building to prepare a feasibility report.

The team included Dr Inayat Shah, assistant director academic Fawad Ahmad, deputy director P&D Amjad Hussain and Dr Irfan. They were briefed about the project by project director Dr Shaukat Ali.

ISOLATION WARD: The Médecins Sans Frontières on Thursday handed over the Covid-19 isolation ward in Timergara District Headquarters Hospital to health department after running it for six months.

The decision to hand over the ward was taken in consultation with health department following decrease in the number of coronavirus patients.

MSF began to run the ward and installed a screening system at the entrance of the hospital in April 2020. Since then, a total of 207,953 people have been screened for Covid-19 at the facility.

Published in Dawn, October 2nd, 2020