Book on IDPs launched in Bannu

BANNU: A book on the internally displaced persons (IDPs) from North Waziristan was launched here on Monday.
A noted social worker and Chairman of the Custom Healthcare Society, Dr Asif Mehmood Jah, wrote a book titled ‘Hira, Hijrat Aor Khidmat’ in which he elaborately described the problems and hardships faced by the IDPs during their displacement. A seven-year-old Hira was the chief guest on the launching ceremony took place at the auditorium in the Fazal Qadir Park.
Additional Commissioner Bannu Damsaz Khan Marwat, Prof Faridullah Khan, Khun-i-Jigar Foundation chairman Aslam Marwat, Maulana Habibullah Haqqani, Mufti Abdul Ghani, educationist Basheer Ahmed and others were present.
Dr Asif Jah said, “I wanted to launch the book in Bannu as mostly I have covered the miseries of the Waziristan operation affectees.”He said that his society examined and provided free medicines to more than 100,000 IDP patients and relief items worth Rs50 million had been given to them so far.