Govt failure to tackle locust attack flayed.

KARAK -- Farmers here have criticised the provincial government for its failure to devise a strategy in four months to tackle the locust attack.

Talking to mediapersons, local farmers, including its district president Iqbal Khattak, claimed that over last few weeks locusts had damaged standing crops, fruit orchards and forests in the district.

The farmers said that the locust-affected areas included Kandokhel, Lawagher Chanikhel, Zarakhel, Ghundi Mir Khan, Deli Mela, Nari Eidalkhel and parts of Takht-i-Nusrati.

They recalled that the provincial government had announced emergency against locust attack on January 28, but agriculture minister Mohibullah was given briefing on the locust attack only the other day.

The farmers demanded of the government to conduct spray in the affected areas on emergency basis to protect crops from further damage.

WAREHOUSES SEALED: Takht-i-Nusrati assistant commissioner Khalid Qayyum sealed 25 warehouses for hoarding commodities.

He visited warehouses of wheat, sugar, rice, flour, ghee and other daily use commodities here the other day and sealed 25 of them in Amberi Kallay, Ahmadabad, Hamidan and other areas.

Mr Qayyum along with a police party also visited the bazaars of Hamidan, Serak and Takht-i-Nusrati and fined 65 traders for fleecing consumers.

transport fares: Rights activists here on Thursday condemned the district administration for not fixing transport fares despite falling...