Workshop highlights problems of minority communities
National
May 19, 2021
PESHAWAR: The Local Council Association (LCA) arranged a training workshop with the support of commonwealth Local Government for the protection of the basic rights of the minorities.
Former local bodies’ representatives and minority members from across the province participated in the workshop. Speakers highlighted the problems being faced by the minority communities. They asked the government to take steps for providing protection to minority communities in Pakistan.
The speakers said the government had allocated a five percent quota in every government department for the minorities. However, they said that the minority members were not being hired on the basis of that allocated quota.
PTI woman member accuses own party leader of revengeful activities
Peshawar
December 25, 2020
PESHAWAR: An active woman member of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and former councillor Munazza Arshad Advocate on Thursday accused the City District chapter president of her own party, Syed Qasim Ali Shah, of revengeful activities.
Speaking at a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club along with her husband, Associate Professor Malik Arshad Hussain, she alleged that Syed Qasim Ali Shah was using pressure tactics against her as she had always opposed the latter for his alleged dictatorial attitude in the party.
Elaborating on her point, she alleged that the PTI city district chapter president, who was a Peshawar district’s naib nazim (district council convener) in the past, acted against the merit and appointed the woman workers of his choice to various party offices in Peshawar.