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HARIPUR, Feb 22: A teenager and two other people were killed in separate incidents here on Tuesday. The Kotnajibullah police quoting an FIR said that Sharif, 14, son of Shahpur of Afghan refugees camp, Haripur , was shot dead by one Mauladad, another Afghan DP, after an altercation over cricket.
The accused who fired shots at him with 30-bore pistol, had been arrested. In the second incident Mohammad Safeer, son of Suleman, was on his way home to village Ghaiba by a passenger pick-up when accidentally he fell from the moving vehicle and was critically injured.
He was brought to DHQ hospital Haripur where he was declared dead. Body of an unidentified man was recovered from the jurisdiction of city police station near Mankraye road. According to police the body's description showed that the man who was in his 50s presumably died of cardiac arrest. The body was later buried by Edhi volunteers in Haripur.
BAIL GRANTED: A man charged with abetting the murder of the rector of Alkhair University, Islamabad, was granted bail by a division bench of the Peshawar High Court here on Monday.
Raja Sheeraz Kiyani, former advocate-general of Azad Jamu Kashmir and rector of Alkhair University's Islamabad campus, was shot dead by three persons near the village of Mang in the Khanpur police area in the last week of December 2004.
One of the fleeing assailants was killed when his car collided with a Suzuki pick-up. Two of his accomplices sustained injuries. Mohammad Bashir Goraya, the pro-chancellor of Alkhair University, was arrested and sent to jail by session judge Haripur. He was charged with abetment on the basis of statement of one of the assailants.
