Security of Chinese workers beefed up in KP

MANSEHRA: Deputy Inspector General of Police Hazara Range Mohammad Ijaz Khan on Wednesday said the security of Chinese nationals working on mega energy projects in Upper Kohistan district had been enhanced.

“Though we have beefed up security of Chinese engineers and labourers at the sites of Dasu hydropower and other projects, you should be extra vigilant,” the DIG told police officials in a darbar meeting at police lines in Upper Kohistan district.

He said Chinese nationals came to Pakistan to execute development projects for the country’s progress, so the police should provide them with foolproof security.

The DIG said police officials misusing authority would be dealt with strictly.

Mr Khan, who visited the district for the first time after assuming his responsibilities as the DIG, laid a wreath at the memorial of martyred police officials.

He was presented a guard of honour by a police contingent. Also in the day, the DIG addressed a group of elders and clerics from different parts of the district.

He said the people held clerics in high esteem and therefore, the latter should advocate brotherhood in different schools of thoughts.

Meanwhile, Pakistan Peoples Party provincial general secretary Shujah Salim Khan on Wednesday said his party would form the next government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after winning elections.

“We have decided to field candidates in all provincial assembly constituencies hoping that their victory will lead us to power,” Mr Khan told a public meeting in Oghi tehsil here.

Mr Khan said the PPP was the most popular party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with the people wanting to see it in power again.

He said his party would come to power in the centre and other provinces as well after sweeping general elections.

“The [Pakistan] Peoples Party is the people’s only hope for resolution of the national economic and political challenges,” he said.

The PPP leader called for general elections to be held on time and said only an elected government could address the current economic and political challenges.

He said he had yet to decide about where to contest elections in Mansehra.

Mr Khan said the party would field election candidates in Hazara division as people from Haripur to Upper Kohistan to Torghar to Kolai-Palas wanted it to come to power.

On the occasion, PPP Hazara president Malik Farooq said people elected his party’s nominees as tehsil, village and neighbourhood council chairmen and would vote for its candidates in the next polls.