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| July 20, 2005 | Wednesday | Jumadi-us-Sani 12, 1426 |
Man shot dead by cousin
HARIPUR, July 19: Two people were shot dead in two separate incidents in the limits of the Khalabat Township police station here on Wednesday. In the first incident, the police quoted one Khaliq Rehman, son of Mohammad Zaman, of the Jagal village as saying that he and his younger brother, Aqit Zaman, were busy cutting firewood in a field owned by their family when their cousin, Mir Afzal, opened fire with a 12-bore shotgun killing Aqit on the spot.
Police said that Khaliq was injured and taken to the District Headquarters Hospital where his condition is stated to be out of danger.
The cause of the shooting is said to be an old family feud over a piece of land.
In the second incident, the Khalabat township police said that a man was killed in the Bayan Ahmad Ali Khan village.
According to police complainant Ahmad Khan said that his son, Abid, was returning home from Rawalpindi on Monday evening when three men, Asif, Yousuf and Javed, who belonged to the same village, shot him dead and dumped his body in a cattle pen.
The body was later recovered by the police and a case registered against the culprits.
CASE REGISTERED: A case under the Zina Ordinance was registered against a man for allegedly molesting his sister in the Haljadal village, some 45km from here.
The Khalabat Township police quoted a woman, Mohabbat Jan Bibi, as saying that her daughter, Tahira Bibi, was taken to the District Headquarters Hospital Haripur after she complained of stomach pain. Doctors at the hospital confirmed after examining her that she was pregnant. The girl later gave birth to a baby girl.
It was learnt that her brother, Shafiq-ur-Rehman, had raped her repeatedly. Out of fear she did not tell anyone about it.
The police were informed about the incident who registered a case against the accused under section 6/10 of the Hudood law. However, no arrest had been made so far.
nomination papers: As the election process for LB polls 2005 has just begun in district Haripur, about 200 male and female candidates filed their nomination papers for different seats of 45 union councils of Haripur. However, the final list was scheduled to be compiled and displayed on July 29.
Different NGOs had set up their election facilitation camps in front of district courts to help the candidates in filing their nomination papers.
Inyat-ur-Rehman advocate and Ms Javeria Zaman advocate, two lawyers of the election facilitation camp of Dihat Dost Tanzeem and Women’s Voice, Haripur, told newsmen that their team members had extended legal help to about 200 male and female candidates from different Union Councils of Haripur in filing error-free nomination papers during the last two days.
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