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Polio team member dies, two injured in Mansehra road mishap
Peshawar
December 18, 2020
MANSEHRA: A member of the polio team was killed and two others sustained injuries when a van of the Health Department plunged into a ravine in Parain Khairabad area here on Thursday.
“The team taking part in the pre-campaign polio drive was on the way back to its headquarters in Mansehra when their vehicle met an accident. The area in-charge of the team died and two staffer of the Health Department sustained serious injuries,” Dr Muhammad Siddique, the deputy district health officer, told reporters.
He said though the regular polio campaign would be launched in the district by January 11, the pre-campaign drive was underway across the district.
National
December 14, 2020
TAKHTBHAI: The traders and elders of Takhtbhai and adjoining towns and villages on Sunday threatened to launch a protest movement against the Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) if it did not end unscheduled electricity loadshedding in their areas.
Talking to media, social and political figures, including Ali Rahman, head of Youth Parliament Muhammad Siddique, Tehrik-e-Tahaffuz-e-Takhtbhai chairman Abdus Sattar Tajik, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam activist Maulana Ishtiaq Haqqani and leaders of traders’ unions Sher Mama, Habibul Nijat and Lal Gul Yousafzai said that they were experiencing worst kind of power loadshedding in their areas. They said that frequent power outages for hours had made life miserable for the locals.