Victims of Jamrud attack get cheques but bear the scars

Governor says terrorists to be eliminated

BARA: Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan on Thursday visited Khyber Agency to enquire after health of those injured in Tuesday’s suicide attack and distributed compensation cheques.

The governor along with members National Assembly from Khyber Agency Nasir Khan Afridi, Shahjee Gul Afridi, Senator Momin Khan Afridi and Khyber Agency Political Agent Shahab Ali Shah visited Hayatabad Medical Complex.

He directed the hospital administration to provide better treatment and other facilities to the blast victims.The governor said that militants had been killing innocent tribesmen and Khassadar personnel and children.

“We as a nation have to resolve to fight against terrorists,” he added.He said the law-enforcement agencies were sacrificing their lives to fight against militants. “We will continue our war till the elimination of all terrorists,” he maintained.

Sardar Mahtab gave away Rs3 million each to heirs of martyred Khassadars.Also, he gave away Rs1.3 million cheque to family of senior journalist and president Tribal Union Journalists (TUJ) Mehboob Shah Afridi, who was also killed in the incident.

Besides Rs1.3 million, the governor announced Rs30,000 per month for the widow of Mehboob Shah Afridi and Rs20,000 monthly stipend for his children.The governor said a plaque in the name of late journalist Mehboob Shah Afridi would be set up at Bara Press Club.

He said the late journalist had always raised voice against barbarism and did journalism for the rights of innocent people. “The government will foot educational expenditure of late journalist’s children and  offer them jobs at the completion of education,” he assured.

The governor also visited Soordhand area in Bara and went to the house of three martyrs from a single family and expressed his condolence with the father of the late Shah Faisal. Shah Faisal, his wife and a son were killed in the incident.

He offered fateha for the departed souls and prayed for the members of the family to bear the irreparable loss with patience. The governor announced Rs0.5 million each for civilians killed in the incident.

The governor also announced Rs20,000 monthly compensation and free education for the children of the late Shah Faisal.Talking to tribal elders from Khyber Agency and survivors of the Karkhano Market bomb blast, the governor expressed sympathies with the members of the bereaved families and said such attacks could not deter the national resolve to eliminate menace of terrorism.