Day: December 3, 2015

Madyan police arrest three suspects

MADYAN: Police arrested three alleged militants at Bishigram area of Madyan here on Wednesday. Madyan police claimed that following a tip-off they conducted a raid in Bishigram area and arrested three alleged militants identified as Mohammad Saeed, Mumtaz Shereen and Nawab Shereen. SHO Mohammad Ali said that Rs15,000 were recovered from the three on the spot which was collected from the villagers for the help of quake-affected people. “Mohammad Saeed had links with the Swat Taliban and his activities were being monitored by the police,” the SHO...

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District council staff hold protest camp against non-payment of salaries

By Fazal Khaliq  MINGORA: Employees of the Swat district council held a protest camp here on Wednesday against the nonpayment of their salaries for the past three months. The employees set up the camp in front of the district nazim’s office and also locked all offices of the local councils across the district. The protesting employees said that they had been facing severe financial problems and unable to even arrange food for their families. They said that all the district council employees from scale 1 to 17 had not been paid their salaries for the past three months. “Every...

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