PCO set up for women in S Waziristan

WANA: A public call office (PCO) has been established exclusively for women in Makin area of South Waziristan, an official said.

An official said they have set up the PCO for women to facilitate them to speak to their family members abroad or in other parts of the country.

He said that the PCO has been set up because women do not have calling facility while there is no mobile phone facility in the area.

“A local lady would be given the PCO and she will run it and earn the money from it, but this would be a facility for women only. Most women have to call their relatives or husband in other countries or parts of Pakistan,” he added.

He said that initiation of mobile phone service would take time but at least the army set up the PCO close to residential area and away from army installations. “The PCO is properly covered so that women can use it as per their traditions of Purdah,” he added.

Man shot dead in Mansehra: A man was killed over a business-related dispute in Bandi Bala area of district, police officials said on Friday.

They said that Mohammad Shafique was on his way home with his family members after attending a marriage party when armed men opened indiscriminate fire on his vehicle, leaving him seriously injured.

The injured was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.

Wazir Mohammad Tanoli told police that Jehanzeb Tanoli had killed his son on the order Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf district councillor Rafique Tanoli and his elder brother Khan Mohammad Tanoli, a business tycoon, settled in Bahrain.