SHANGLA: Pakistan Peoples Party and Qaumi Watan Party’s local chapters on Tuesday reached an agreement for seats adjustment of two provincial assembly constituencies of PK-23, Shangla-I, and PK-24, Shangla-II, here on Tuesday.

PPP Malakand division president Dr Afsarul Mulk and QWP district chairman Dr Sajjad Ahmed after consultation here reached seats adjustment in the two constituencies. However, the agreement will not be applicable to NA-10.

The leaders of two parties said that they had decided that PPP would support QWP candidate in PK-24 and QWP would support PPP candidate in PK-23.

Agreement made for PK-23, PK-24

“The vote bank of both parties has increased in Shangla. Candidates of both parties would defeat their rival candidates in the coming election,” Mr Ahmed claimed. He said that he would hold talks with independent candidates in PK-24 to support QWP.

Mr Mulk said that the PPP candidate had obtained about 8,000 votes in PK-23 in 2013 elections and now after seats adjustment with QWP its vote bank would increase. Various political parties in the district are striving for seat adjustment.

Meanwhile, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has again changed its candidate for NA-10 and this time awarded the ticket to Waqar Ahmed Khan.

The PTI parliamentary board had first awarded the ticket to Nawaz Mehmood. At last, the ticket was awarded to Waqar Ahmed and sweets were distributed in various parts of the district by PTI workers.

CAR-LIFTER HELD: The Bisham police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested a car-lifter and recovered the car.

Station house officer, Bisham, Habib Shah told mediapersons in the police station that a police mobile was on the routine mobile duty and saw a man waving to them at Shang. He said that the man told the police that his car was snatched by his passenger and threw him here. The police later arrested the alleged car-lifter, identified as Ghulam Qadir, and registered an FIR against him.

DROWNED: A man drowned when he fell into Khan Khwar on Tuesday while fixing the local mini power station’s line near his home in Ranyal area.

Local people said that Khalilur Rehman was fixing the power supply line when he got electrocuted and fell into Khan Khwar. He was soon fished out of the water, but died on way to the hospital in Ghorband, Alpuri.

Published in Dawn, June 27th, 2018