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Published 06 Apr, 2014 07:48am

Arrangements for anti-polio drive in Kohat reviewed

KOHAT: Deputy Commissioner, Kohat, Amjad Ali Khan has directed the health officials to ensure administration of anti-polio drops to each and every child besides covering the refusal cases in the district.

He was speaking during a meeting of district polio eradication committee here on Friday.

The meeting was attended by assistant commissioner Farrukh Attique, assistant district health officer Arif Bukhari, divisional superintendent vaccination Mahboob Khan and others.

The meeting discussed the arrangements, security plan and logistic support to health department for the four-day anti-polio campaign starting from April 14.

The DC said that no negligence on the part of any department would be tolerated during the campaign. He called upon the parents to cooperate with the vaccinators to administer anti-polio drops to their children under five years of age.

SUICIDE VEST FOUND: Police found an abandoned suicide jacket in the mountains of Shadikhel village here on Friday.

The jacket contained over four kilogrammes of explosive material. A police party was patrolling the area when it spotted something suspicious in the mountain. Upon search, it turned out to be a suicide jacket. The police called the bomb disposal squad which defused it.

The Shadikhel police have registered a case against unknown terrorists.

Meanwhile, police investigation revealed that a passenger, Amjid Noor, resident of Kurram Agency, who was arrested while carrying a suicide jacket from Hangu to Kohat a few days ago was in fact a carrier.

The police claimed that the carrier had to deliver the jacket to a person in Kohat for terrorism. However, identity of the intended receiver could not be ascertained by the police.

The district police officer has announced cash prizes and certificates for the police party, which had seized the jacket.

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