TIMERGARA: Lower Dir deputy commissioner Shaukat Ali Yousafzai on Tuesday asked traders’ community to avoid profiteering, hoarding and sale of expired food items during Ramazan.

He was talking to a delegation of Anjuman-i-Tajaran Talash led by its president Dr Noor Mohammad here. Timergara tehsil nazim Riaz Mohammad was also present.

The traders’ representatives informed the deputy commissioner about their reservations on the market checking and imposition of fines on shopkeepers. They said small traders were being fined for using plastic shopping bags and under-weight packing of flour bags and ghee tins.

They said instead of punishing small traders, mills’ owners and the suppliers should be taken to task.

Dr Noor also requested the DC not to impose fine on shopping bags until an alternative was introduced in the market. He said the traders’ community would extend support to the district administration in that regard.

Mr Yousafzai said the administration was committed to providing relief to the citizens. Assuring to address genuine issues faced by the traders, the DC urged them to avoid profiteering during the holy month.

TEACHERS SEEK SALARY: Female teachers of basic education community schools on Tuesday threatened to march on Islamabad and stage a demonstration there if they were not paid their withheld salaries before Eidul Fitr.

In a statement the teachers complained that they had not been paid for the last one year, due to which they had been borrowing money for running expenses of their families. The teachers threatened to set up a protest camp in the federal capital if they were not paid before Eid. They demanded of Prime Minister Imran Khan to take notice of the matter.

NADRA MOBILE VAN: Munda tehsil nazim Humayun Khan on Tuesday said a Nadra mobile van would deliver computerised national identity cards to women and elders at their doorstep in remote villages in the next 10 days.

Talking to journalists he said majority of women were reluctant to visit the Nadra office at Samarbagh for getting CNICs, adding the tehsil administration contacted Nadra authorities to arrange the mobile van to facilitate the women.

Published in Dawn, May 22nd, 2019