MARDAN: Two students were injured when rival groups clashed after exchanging hot words at the Government Postgraduate College, Mardan, here on Wednesday.

Preliminary investigations conducted by the city police station officials revealed that the brawl between two groups took place on the college premises, leading to a clash, in which they used sticks and stones, causing injuries to two students.

The police rushed to the spot and managed to control the situation. Later, the police registered cross-FIRs in the case.

An FIR was registered against 20 students on the complaint of injured student, Abbas, and the second was registered against 10 students on the complaint of injured, Gulzar.

The police claimed they had taken 15 students into custody after the clash.

The police said they had began further investigations to ascertain as to what caused the clash

JI FILES WRIT PETITION AGAINST FPA: Jamaat-i-Islami, Mardan chapter leaders have demanded of the Peshawar High Court to declare the Fuel Price Adjustment (FPA) in electricity bills as illegal.

JI district president emir Ghulam Rasool and other leaders told a press conference on Wednesday that the Jamaat had filed a writ petition in the high court against the application of FPA in electricity bills with the purpose to get it declared illegal.

He said the two-member bench comprising Justice Rohul Amin and Justice Syed Arshid Ali was going to hear the petition against the ‘cruel tax’ on Thursday (today).

Mr Rasool appealed to the honourable judges to annul FPA keeping in view larger interest of people.

The JI leader alleged the incumbent rulers had been collecting billions of rupees from consumers through including FPA in electricity bills.

He said residents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were subjected to FPA even though their province produced enough hydroelectricity.

The JI district emir said the IMF conditions had made survival of common man very difficult. He claimed the JI planned to hold protest sit-ins across the country against the government’s ‘anti-people’ policies, saying the campaign would begin with a sit-in in Mardan on March 13.

Published in Dawn, February 10th, 2022