PESHAWAR, Sept 1: The tribesmen staged a protest demonstration against the killing of a bus cleaner allegedly by the Kurram militia force at Alam Gudar, Bara, on Saturday night.

Sources in Bara told Dawn on Sunday that the political administration of Khyber Agency had called the Kurram militia to take part in the operation against outlaws in the tribal agency.

They said that the Kurram militia had set up its base camp at the Government High School, Alam Gudar, and impounded several public transport for using them in the Sunday’s operation against the criminal.

But one of the bus owners, who tried to flee the school premises to save himself from the forced labour, was fired upon by the Kurram militia. As a result, the cleaner of the bus, Adam Khan, was critically injured, sources alleged.

The locals rushed Adam Khan to a health outlet at Alam Gudar, where the doctor pronounced him dead on arrival.

On Sunday morning Adam Khan was buried at his ancestral graveyard at Bur Qambarkhel, where the tribal elders demanded of the NWFP Governor and IG Frontier Constabulary to arrest the murderers at the earliest.

They warned that if the murderers were not arrested by Tuesday, they would hold a protest march towards the Governor’s House and stage a sit-in in front of the IG Frontier Constabulary on GT Road.

TWO KILLED: A police constable and another man were killed in separate incidents in the suburbs of the city on Sunday.

Saifur Rehman lodged an FIR with the Chamkani police station stating that his son Iftikhar Ahmad, police constable of Frontier Reserve Police, was on his way home on bicycle when four persons, Irshad, Manzoor, Aamir and Taimur, intercepted him in Chamkani and allegedly opened fire, killing him on the spot.

He said that about six months back the accused had developed grievances with Iftikhar over children’s quarrel.

In another incident, some unknown person shot dead one Fazle Rabbi in the limits of Badhber police station. Police registered the case on the report of the deceased’s wife.

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