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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Kohat police arrest 13 transvestites

Source Dawn


Over a dozen transvestites were arrested in a police crackdown on the charges of their involvement in ‘unethical and illegal’ activities in Kohat here on Friday night.
About 100 transvestites have hired rooms in a building in main Tirah bazaar of the city and residing there since long. These people have come from various parts of Punjab and tribal areas and perform at marriage parties and other such functions in the area, residents said.
Police confirmed that 13 transvestites were picked up from suspected places and put behind bars following complaints of local people. Police have registered an FIR against them.
The police said that though the transvestites had permit of dancing at functions, some of them were arrested after complaints that they were involved in unethical activities and promoting vulgarity.
Peeping through the bars of city police lock-up, they told this correspondent that they were innocent. They said that they had come to the city to earn livelihood for their families back home.
It has been learnt that sometimes the police pick them up forcibly from the building during night time and drop them back in the morning.

Dam project for Kohat announced

Source Dawn


Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Housing Amjid Afridi has said that the government has formally approved construction of Zamir Gul Dam in Kohat with a cost of Rs760 million.
He announced this while speaking at a public meeting at Company Park here on Sunday. He said that he had inaugurated gas supply to 13 localities on the outskirts of Kohat city and promised that the facility would be provided to six more villages within 20 days.
He was accompanied by his brother, state minister for trade Senator Abbas Afridi, his father Shamim Afridi – who is likely to contest coming election for National Assembly seat – and elders from different areas of Kohat. Strict security arrangements were made for the public meeting.
The provincial minister also inaugurated office of the State Life Insurance in Chakarkot and announced that many employees of the state life working in Peshawar would be adjusted in the Kohat office. The housing minister claimed that he had spent Rs260 million on provision of electricity in his KP-37 constituency. He thanked the chief minister for establishing one degree college for boys and three girls’ colleges in Kohat during past about five years. Mr Afridi said that with his efforts the provincial government had also upgraded several schools in remote areas to provide high school education facility to the youth.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

KIMS relocation to KDA

Source Dawn


The recommendatory body on Kohat Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) on Tuesday proposed alternative land for construction of the institute’s building after seven years of its establishment.
Kohat commissioner Sahibzada Anees chaired the meeting of the body here in his office.
Wisal Khattak, an assistant at the commissioner’s office, told this correspondent that the meeting discussed proposals for construction of the KIMS building for which 25 kanals had already been bought from the Kohat Development Authority (KDA).
Now, the committee wanted that alternative land should be bought in phase-II of the KDA near the divisional headquarters hospital, which had been given the status of a teaching hospital.
The meeting was attended by KIMS principal Nasir Jamal Khattak, KDA project director, deputy commissioner and other related officials.

Weapons seized, two held in Kohat

Source Dawn


The police recovered a cache of weapons from a car and arrested two accused on Indus Highway here on Tuesday.
A police official said that the weapons were being taken from Darra Adamkhel to down country in a car, which had passed through at least four checkpoints in Kohat before reaching Lachi. The weapons recovered from the car (AC-435) included two Kalashnikovs, three sten guns, one repeater and 11 pistols besides 29 chargers and 800 cartridges.
They said that the accused Ahmed Sher of Gujrat and Meraj Mohammad of Chitral had been arrested. The Lachi police registered a case and presented the accused before a court, which sent them to Kohat prison.

Levies personnel in FR Peshawar, Kohat refuse to perform duty

Source The News


A number of Levies personnel in the Frontier Regions (FR), Peshawar, and Kohat refused to perform duty due to threats from militants and lack of support from the authorities, a source told The News on Monday.

“Many of the Levies personnel in the two Frontier Regions as well as other tribal and semi-tribal areas, adjacent to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, have stopped performing duty. Some of them have properly conveyed [their decision] to their bosses while others are staying at home without informing seniors,” the source said.

The Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar, Muhammad Javed Marwat, who is the political agent for the Frontier Region Peshawar, could not be contacted despite repeated phone calls. An SMS was sent to him at his cell phone, but that too went un-responded.

Some of the officials of the FR Peshawar and FR Kohat said that nobody had

refused to perform duty and the affairs were being run smoothly. However, they admitted the Levies personnel had some apprehensions after the killing of their 21 colleagues in December last year.

“The parents of many of the Levies soldiers have refused to send their sons to perform duty at vulnerable posts, that too without any proper ammunition. Almost all their pickets and posts have been destroyed and they are inadequately armed,” said a source in the political administration of the Frontier Region, Peshawar.

The Levies personnel are already under threat for performing duty in the troubled tribal areas. The threat was taken seriously after 21 of them, who had been kidnapped by the militants from barracks and posts on December 26, were shot dead on December 29.

The Levies personnel are getting meagre salaries and don’t have sufficient ammunition to counter any kind of attack by the militants. Around 250 personnel perform duty in FR Peshawar and as many are there in FR Kohat but most of them do not have even rifles.

Hundreds of Levies personnel performing duty in all the tribal agencies and the Frontier Regions are also without proper structures, checkposts and ammunition to maintain order in the troubled regions.

Twenty-one Levies men were shot dead in Kohi Hassankhel in the Frontier Region Peshawar on December 29 after they were blindfolded and lined up with their hands tied at their backs. Their bodies were dumped in the Jabba Hassankhel area of the Frontier Region, Peshawar, about four kilometres away from the place from where they were kidnapped.

Most of the slain men belonged to Hassankhel, Janakor and nearby villages of the semi-tribal Frontier Region Peshawar, which is surrounded by Darra Adamkhel, Khyber Agency and Matani in Peshawar. The Darra Adamkhel chapter of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) later claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and killing of the Levies men.

Friday, January 11, 2013

Gunned down: Bullet-riddled body found in Kohat

Source The Tribune

The bullet-riddled body of a man was found in the Sheikhan area of Kohat on Tuesday, according to the police. Syed Qaiser Abedin had been missing since Monday evening, Riaz Shaheed police station SHO Aqiq Hussain told The Express Tribune. He said locals informed them about a body lying by the roadside after which they rushed to the site and shifted the deceased to the police station. “The assailants had killed him and wrapped his body in a sheet,” the SHO added. The national ID card of Hussain was found near the body, helping them identify his name and hometown, Usterzai Payan. Police later shifted the body to Kohat Divisional Hospital for autopsy following which it was handed over to the bereaved relatives, who said Hussain had no enmity with anyone. Police have started investigation.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Man kills brother in Kohat

Source The News


A man was killed his brother over a domestic dispute in the limits of Janglekhel Police Station on Tuesday, official sources said.Muhammad Hanif reported to the police that his brother Naveed Gul entered into the house of his brother Abdul Hafiz and opened fire on him, killing him on the spot.Taking promptly action, the police arrested the culprit with weapon.

Friday, January 4, 2013

Man robbed in Kohat

Source Frontier Post

Jewels and cash worth over eight hundred thousand rupees were robbed from the house of one Syed Moin resident of Mangalbibi area within the jurisdiction of Mohammad Riyaz Shaheed Police Station on Monday.
Syed Moin in his statement to the police said he and members of his family were sleeping at night when Mohammad Abrahim and Mohammad Rasool, along with other five other men, entered into his house. They tied him and his family members, took away ten tolas gold, and two hundred and fifty thousand rupees cash. The robbers also robbed the family of three wrest watches, as many mobile phones and took away to rifles, one of them a licensed repeater. 
One beaten in Imambargah
Meanwhile, one Syed Raza Hussein was beaten inside an Imambargah in Alizai on Monday by some individuals who wanted to set up a medical camp inside the lace of worship. The tussle took place when Raza tried to stop the others from establishing a medical camp there. 
All the individuals involved are from Alzai in Kohat. Lodging FIR Raza Hussain accused Sumair and Syed Tafseer Hussain and others of beating him 

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Kidnapped people released in Hangu

Source Dawn

Hangu police got four people released from kidnappers and arrested an accused on Friday.

The police said that the alleged kidnappers, including Hazrat Daud, Salamat Shah and Mohammad Mustafa of Orakzai Agency, had kidnapped five people from Hangu and demanded Rs5.5 million ransom. Their victims were identified as Amir, Vaqar, Mohammad Israr and Abdul Qadir.
They said that the kidnappers had taken the four to Navidad Mountains and were planning to shift them to tribal area when the police raided their hideout and recovered the victims. An alleged accomplice of the kidnappers was also arrested. The police have registered a case against the accused.

No public transport for posh Kohat town

Source Dawn


People here have urged the district administration to start a regular bus service for thousands of residents of KDA Town and adjacent areas because majority of them can not afford the rent of taxis to commute between the town and the city and other nearby areas daily.
They have also demanded construction of a bus stand so that the town’s residents could easily get public transport for Peshawar and Rawalpindi through the KDA bypass. These days the town’s residents have to travel 10 to 12 kilometers to reach the new bus stand located outside Kohat city on Bannu road to catch a bus for Rawalpindi and Peshawar.
The Kohat city’s divisional headquarters hospital, passport office, Nadra office, Al-Shifa Eye Trust Hospital, district secretariat, universities, parks and playgrounds are all situated in the KDA Town and people have to visit these almost places daily.
The residents said that over the years population of the town had increased manifold, especially in phase-I.
Earlier, the fare of coaches running between Kohat and other districts besides intra city services were affordable, but now due to hike in petrol and CNG prices the fares have gone out of common man’s reach.
The taxi drivers have raised the fare to KDA Town from city to Rs150 and daily commuting costs Rs300.
Mohammad Saeed, a bank employee, said that he had to daily visit Peshawar for his job, spending Rs300 only in taxi fare so as to reach the bus stand and back home.
“My salary is good otherwise common man can not afford these fares. It is my compulsion to be in house because my 14-year-old daughter is suffering from cancer,” he said.

Cop among two go missing in Kohat

Source The News


Two persons including a policeman went missing in Tanda Dam in the limits of Saddar Police Station on Sunday, sources said.

The sources said that policeman Kamran Khan along with his friend Javed Iqbal went to Tanda Dam on motorcycle. Both mysteriously went missing while their motorcycle was found parked along the dam, the sources added.

Acting on a tip-off, the police reached the spot and launched search operation but there was no clue about their whereabouts till the filing of this report.