MARDAN: Commissioner Mardan Division Nisar Ahmad has directed the concerned departments to ensure the proper functioning of the city’s slaughterhouse and to impose a complete ban on the slaughtering of animals in streets and residential areas. Presiding over a meeting on beautification of city and plantation along the N-45 (Nowshera–Mardan Road), the Commissioner stressed that all butchers must use the official slaughterhouse for all kinds of slaughtering to maintain hygiene and civic discipline. The meeting was attended by Additional Deputy Commissioner Iqbal Hussain Khattak, Secretary to Commissioner Fazal Wahid, Regional Municipal Officer Zeeshan Khan, ACR Dawood Khan, TMO Mardan and other relevant officials. The TMO informed that the damaged flower pots along N-45 had been replaced with new ones, while new saplings had been planted as per the Commissioner’s directives. Falak Sher
