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PESHAWAR, Aug 2: A federal intelligence agency arrested two prayer leaders and teachers of a religious school from Jharian checkpoint in Haripur district on the border between the NWFP and Punjab, sources told Dawn here on Tuesday.
They said that Maulana Naeem Muavia and Maulana Mohammad Siddique were going to a Darul Uloom in Lartoba village near the Ghorghashti town in Attock district a few days ago when personnel of the intelligence agency detained them at the checkpost and took them away for interrogation.
According to the sources, Maulana Naeem Muavia, who hails from Taxila, was a prayer-leader at Jamia Sher Aslam Khan in Ghazi town of Haripur district.
He also taught at a Darul Uloom in Lartoba village along with Maulana Siddique.
Maulana Siddique, who belongs to Balakot, was also a prayer leader at Jamia Masjid in Ghazi town of Haripur, they maintained.
KILLED: A 45-year-old woman Khalida, wife of Liaquat Ali, was killed when a stray bullet hit her in her home in Tehkal Bala on Monday, her son Sajjad claimed.
However, police were reluctant to believe her son’s statement and had started investigations.
BURGLED: A businessman’s house was burgled on Monday. Mohammad Afzal, who runs a medical store in the Karachi Market in Dabgari area, told Yakatoot police that his wife had gone outside for some work on Monday evening.
When she returned to her home in Fidaabad, she found the main door of the house open. Later it was found that robbers had taken away Rs60,000 in cash, a diamond necklace worth Rs150,000 and 25 tolas of gold ornaments.
ARREST: The city police have arrested the owner of barber shops on the charge of killing his relative four months ago.
On April 7 this year, Mumtaz Khan, who owned several barber shops in Jeddah and Madina in Saudi Arabia, was killed at his residence in Madina Colony of Bashirabad locality.
His father Khan Wali on Monday accused his close relative Haji Latif, who also ran a barber shop in Madina, of killing his son to usurp his property in the city.
He also nominated Haji Latif’s son Bilal in the case. However, Bilal had gone back to Madina.
