HARIPUR, Aug 30 A comprehensive plan has been devised to ensure maximum relief to the citizens including setting up of sasta (cheap) bazaars during the holly month of Ramazan.

Besides, committees comprising administrative officers have also been formed for maintenance of law and order and keeping the prices of daily use items under control, said Regional Coordination Officer (RCO) Hazara, Syed Javed Shah on Saturday. He was talking to lawyers at district bar hall here.

Deputy Inspector General Imtiaz Altaf, and District Coordination Officer, Haripur Atif-ur-Rehman were also present.

Mr Javed said that for addressing the problems of people a strong magistracy was imperative with a strong judiciary.

He said that the strong and independent judiciary had always been the demand of society but a strong magistracy or district administration were also vital to solve people's problems. He said that setting up of regional coordination office (RCO) here was meant to bring about improvement in the situation of law and order and solve other day to day problems like stability in prices of daily use items.

Mr Javed said, a divisional control room was being established at Abbottabad where the complaints of people regarding law and order and their other problems would be entertained. Later, he attended a lunch at Kotnajibullah that was hosted in his honour by the former president district bar association Haripur Sardar Abdul Rauf Khan.

RELIGIOUS LEADER SHOT DEAD A local religious leader Pir Syed Mushtaq Hussain Shah of Maira Toot was shot dead by an unknown assailant here on Saturday.

Saddar police quoted Syed Abbas Shah, the son of Pir Mushtaq Shah, as saying that he was at home when one of followers of his father Ghulam Haider knocked at his door in the early hours of Saturday and informed him that a masked person armed with pistol scaled the boundary wall of his father's house, and shot and seriously injured him. Abbas said when he reached the spot his father had expired.

The complainant ruled out the chances of his father having enmity or differences with any one. The police have registered the case against unknown assailant and investigation was underway.

BOY CRUSHED TO DEATH A teen-aged boy was crushed to death under a recklessly driven truck here on Saturday. City police and eye witnesses said that a boy riding a bicycle when reached the middle of Dheenda Chowk a rashly driven truck hit the boy from behind and crushed him to death.

The errant driver, however, managed to sneak out from the crowd of people that gathered after the accident.

The boy was later identified as Ghulam Mustafa, 14, of Mohalla Ramzani.