Karak nazim suspends education official over alleged corruption

KARAK: District Nazim Dr Umer Daraz Khattak has suspended the assistant district officer (education) on charges of corruption and misuse of authority and asked the district education officer to conduct an enquiry against him.

A delegation of All Primary Teachers Association, Karak, led by its district president Javed Iqbal Khattak, met the district nazim and briefed him about the alleged embezzlement done by Assistant District Officer (ADO) Abdullah Khan Khattak of Ahmadi Banda circle in the purchase of solar systems. The delegation also submitted an application against the ADO with the district nazim. 

The district nazim suspended the ADO and asked District Education Officer Abdus Salam Marwat to conduct a departmental enquiry against him.

The delegation also complained that the police were harassing heads of schools in the name of security and had given 15-day ultimatum to them for making appropriate security arrangements of their institutions.

They added that the schools, particularly the primary ones, had no funds to install close circuit television cameras and raise the boundary walls.