Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Senior Citizens' Forum Hayatabad- Election press release dated July 22, 2008

SENIOR CITIZENS’ FORUM HAYATABAD(Registered by the Govt. of NWFP)Office at Public LibraryP-1, St-8, Behind Paraplegic Hospital, Phase-4, Hayatabad, Peshawar

Press release

Peshawar: Tuesday, July 22, 2008

A meeting of the General Body of the Forum was held on 17/4/2008 in the Saalim Khan Khalil Public Library, Hayatabad. It was presided over by Mr. Muhammad Saadullah Khan, Chairman.The meeting started with recitation from the Holy Qur’an. The Chairman invited the attention of the members to the termination of the duration of the existing cabinet and said that elections should be held for the current year, 2008.The house unanimously elected the following to the cabinet and the Executive Council of the Forum:

1. Saalim Khan Khalil, ex-MNA………………Chairman
2. Dr. Ghulam Sarwar Khan…………………..Vice Chairman
3. Engr S. Bughdad Shah……………………….General Secretary
4. Qazi Ashraf Khan………………………….....Information Secretary
5. Khalid Mirza………………………………......Treasurer

Executive Council members:

1. Mehmood Khan, ex-Chief Secretary
2. Sadullah Khan, ex-Chief Forest
3. Abdul Matin, ex-Bank Chief
4. Ziarat Khan, ex-Secretary to Govt
5. Zaman Khan, ex-Chief WAPDA
6. Izzatullah Khan
7. Hakim Sadiq Anis
8. Engr Noor Muhammad Khan
9. S. Ishtiaq Burki

The Forum discussed various problems faced by the inhabitants of Hayatabad and it was reiterated to remind the Governor, the new Chief Minister and Chief Secretary NWFP to direct the concerned authorities to initiate action on the decisions already arrived at in the meetings held between the senior citizens and various government officials from time to time.Some of these problems included security, water shortage, diversion of FATA and Afghanistan traffic from Hayatabad, enforcing restriction on commercial use of residential area, pollution, crowding of houses beyond their carrying capacity, emergency medical service, keeping record of and vigil on buying, selling and renting of houses by the police etc for keeping eye on crimes.

Qazi Ashraf Khan
Information Secretary

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