Hotels, restaurants sealed for lack of registration

PESHAWAR: The Tourist Services Wing (TSW) of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Culture and Tourism Authority (KPCTA) raided hotels and restaurants and sealed several of them for failing to register and pay the required fees.

TSW Controller Umar Arshad Khan along with his team comprising Additional Assistant Commissioner Saleem Ayubi, TSW Manager of Regulation Zeeshan Maqsood, Deputy Manager of Licensing Afrasiab Khattak, Chief Enforcement Inspector Yasir Khattak, Deputy Manager of Hotel Services at the Tourist Services Wing, Shahid Raza and personnel of the Tourism Police and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police conducted raids on various hotels and restaurants along the Grand Trunk Road in Peshawar.

The hotels and restaurants raided included Haleem Ghar Peshawar, Zabeel Palace Hotel, Al-Miraj Hotel and Restaurant and Al-Mashriq Hotel. The TSW had earlier issued several notices to the aforementioned hotels and restaurants to register and pay the license fees, but they failed to do so.