LAKKI MARWAT: The wildlife department on Sunday confiscated 20 spiny-tailed lizards from the possession of a man in Lakki city.
\nDFO Khan Malook told Dawn that the action was taken on information that a man had come to the weekly fair to sell lizards to quacks.
\n\u201cA team was tasked to foil the bid and arrest the offender,\u201d he maintained, saying the wildlife employees arrested Qaiser Zaman, hailing from Karak district, and seized from him 20 spiny-tailed lizards.
\nHe added a case had been registered against the arrested man under relevant sections of the Wildlife and Biodiversity Act, 2015.
\n\u201cUnder the act all species of lizards are protected and included in the third schedule,\u201d said Mr Malook.
\nHe said the lizards were captured from wild and sold to quacks that cut them open to get fat and extract oil through heating.
\n\u201cThe oil extracted from the fat of lizards has a soaring demand as it is considered to be useful to cure headache, backache and ear, kidney and muscle pain,\u201d he said, adding the use of oil taken from fats of lizards was not only harmful for human health but was also causing decline in the population of the specie.
\nNONPAYMENT OF SALARY: The employees\u2019 union of working folks\u2019 grammar higher secondary school, Naurang, has threatened to expand its agitation against the nonpayment of salary.
\nTalking to journalists on Sunday, the union\u2019s leaders said the government had withheld the salary of regular employees, including teachers, for the month of January.
\n\u201cThe contractual employees have not been paid salary since June, last year,\u201d claimed Sabz Ali, a union leader.
\nHidayatullah, another leader, said the teaching and non-teaching staff had been on strike, but the authorities were unmoved to their concerns. He said the regular teachers had been forced to take additional classes in the schools due to the strike of the contractual employees. \u201cBut despite that they are not being paid salary on time,\u201d he regretted.
\nAnother leader said the tall claims made by government to extend a package of perks and privileges and service structure to the employees of working folks schools proved false.
\nHe regretted that students belonging to poor workers\u2019 families had been deprived of facilities of free transport, uniform and textbooks.
\nThey demanded of the government to order payment of the withheld salary to the employees without delay.
\nOFFICE-BEARERS ELECTED: The local chapter of the school officers association elected its new office-bearers unopposed in a meeting held at Government Higher Secondary School, Tajazai, according to a statement issued on Sunday.
\nThe participants unanimously elected Principal Mohammad Umar as president and Hikmatullah as general secretary of the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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