MANSEHRA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz central senior vice-president Sardar Mohammad Yousuf has said that Pakistan Democratic Movement would go ahead to hold its public meetings as scheduled earlier.

“The people have been taking part in PDM public gatherings as a referendum against the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government which has gifted them with the highest ever inflation and unemployment,” Mr Yousuf told mediapersons at his residence here on Sunday.

He said that the Nov 22 public meeting of PDM in Peshawar would also be held in accordance with its schedule and a record number of people from Mansehra and Hazara would show up there.

The PML-N central leader said that PDM would continue its gatherings as scheduled and nobody could stop them. He said that his party would hold a public meeting in Mansehra on Nov 18.

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“The people of Hazara will give a warm welcome to Maryam Nawaz and other leaders of the party,” he said.

PML-N also held a consultative meeting with its MNA Mohammad Sajjad Awan and finalised its strategy to welcome their central leadership in Mansehra.

The meeting, which was attended among others by PML-N district president Zafar Mahmood, MPA Sardar Shahjehan Yousuf and former district nazim Sardar Said Ghulam decided to mobilise party workers for the public meeting.

SUGAR SALE: The district administration has started selling over 972 metric tons of sugar which it received as its share from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government from the recently imported commodity.

“We have established 103 sale points across the district where this imported sugar would be sold at Rs87 per kilogramme,” deputy commissioner Qasim Ali Khan said at the inaugural ceremony of first sale point held at Kashmir Road here on Sunday.

The officials of the district food department were also in attendance. Mr Qasim said that Mansehra was also given an additional quota of 96 metric tons meant for the neighbouring Torghar district.

“We would ensure the availability of imported sugar at all 103 points in the district,” he said. He said that he would supervise the entire process of sugar distribution in the district.

Published in Dawn, November 16th, 2020