HARIPUR, April 5: Police are conducting raids for four Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leaders and a brother of the provincial transport and fisheries minister accused in FIRs of opening fire on a protest procession during the MMA strike on Saturday. Sources said that criminal cases had been registered against Gohar Nawaz Khan, younger brother of Transport Minister Akhtar Nawaz Khan, district MMA president Syed Lal Hussain Shah, Jamat-i-Islami’s district Amir Shabbir Ahmad Kakakhel, MMA’s district press secretary Shahid Gohar and one Ghulam Nabi Tanoli.

Mr Shah had lodged a complaint with the city police accusing Mr Gohar Khan of firing shots at the MMA procession on Tarbela Road on April 2.

Mr Gohar Khan had also lodged a complaint with the city police, saying that the MMA activists had opened fire on his Pajero. He said his car had been damaged in the firing.

SUICIDE: A young man committed suicide, while another was knocked by a pick-up truck here on Monday evening.

Police said quoting family sources that Sabir Khan, 17, hanged himself from a ceiling fan in his house. The motive behind the killing was not known.

In the other incident, Arshad Nawaz was knocked by a Suzuki pick-up when he was crossing a road near village Daidan. He died on the spot.