Source Dawn
Hundreds of people on Sunday took to the streets to protest against police failure to curb increasing dacoities in the city which claimed life of a house owner recently. They blocked the main Bazaar-i-Mustafa road for several hours.
The protesters were holding placards inscribed with slogans against the DIG, Kohat region, DPO and the administration for their failure to control crimes in the Kohat city especially dacoities.
The protesters demanded expulsion of some ‘corrupt’ police officials from the district who had been serving here for several years and had ‘developed links with smugglers, gamblers, thieves and extortionists’.
The protest was addressed by former MNA Javed Ibraheem Paracha, former naib nazim of urban-I Asghar Ayub, president of Tajir action committee Haji Abid Paracha, secretary general of bazaar Israr Shinwari and other prominent figures of the city.
Javed Ibraheem Paracha said dacoits took away gold and money from the house of a retired brigadier in Muhallah Parachgan; deprived the family of Haris of 21 tolas of gold and killed the owner of a house who scuffled with dacoits three days back in the same vicinity. Similarly, in a daring attempt dacoits took away a motorcycle from inside a house of one Sajid.
He alleged that police were hand in glove with the criminals while the high ups and the provincial government were least concerned to the threats to the lives and property of the people.
Asghar Ayub gave a 3-day deadline to the police for the arrest of the killers after which they would launch an indefinite strike.
Hundreds of people on Sunday took to the streets to protest against police failure to curb increasing dacoities in the city which claimed life of a house owner recently. They blocked the main Bazaar-i-Mustafa road for several hours.
The protesters were holding placards inscribed with slogans against the DIG, Kohat region, DPO and the administration for their failure to control crimes in the Kohat city especially dacoities.
The protesters demanded expulsion of some ‘corrupt’ police officials from the district who had been serving here for several years and had ‘developed links with smugglers, gamblers, thieves and extortionists’.
The protest was addressed by former MNA Javed Ibraheem Paracha, former naib nazim of urban-I Asghar Ayub, president of Tajir action committee Haji Abid Paracha, secretary general of bazaar Israr Shinwari and other prominent figures of the city.
Javed Ibraheem Paracha said dacoits took away gold and money from the house of a retired brigadier in Muhallah Parachgan; deprived the family of Haris of 21 tolas of gold and killed the owner of a house who scuffled with dacoits three days back in the same vicinity. Similarly, in a daring attempt dacoits took away a motorcycle from inside a house of one Sajid.
He alleged that police were hand in glove with the criminals while the high ups and the provincial government were least concerned to the threats to the lives and property of the people.
Asghar Ayub gave a 3-day deadline to the police for the arrest of the killers after which they would launch an indefinite strike.
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