February 12, 2007	Monday	Muharram 23, 1428

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QUETTA, Feb 11: A man was killed and eight others, three of them police personnel, were injured when a man snatched a Kalashinkov from a policeman and opened fire at the Pashtoonabad police station on Sunday.

The assailant escaped after committing the crime.

It is reported that two groups came to the police station to register FIR against each other after a minor incident of fighting among children in the area. They exchanged hot words.

A police official said Salahuddin Achakzai snatched a Kalashnikov from policeman Obaidullah and opened fire. As a result, Haji Abdul Khaliq Achakzai, elder brother of the former provincial minister and leader of PMAP Abdul Qahar Wadan was killed on the spot.

The injured were identified as Irshad, Farid, Obaidullah (policemen), Manan, Mahmood, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Azeem and Abdul Wasay.

No arrest was made till the filing of the report.

The Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party has condemned the killing of Abdul Khaliq Achakzai.

In a press release issued here, the party said that the incident was an act of terrorism and police failed to arrest the killer.

The PMAP demanded that the killer should immediately be arrested and brought to justice.

CHILD’S RECOVERY DEMANDED: Former Musakhel district nazim Maulvi Mohammad Sarwar has demanded that the government should secure the recovery of a child who has been kidnapped from Nasarabad suburb of Loralai a week back.

Speaking at a press conference at the press club on Sunday, he said that the kidnappers were demanding Rs10 million as ransom.

The former nazim said kidnappers were making calls from a mobile phone, but the service provider could not trace the number.

He alleged that the provincial police chief had refused to meet the family members of the kidnapped child.

JAMAL SHAH’S NOMINATION: The Artists Society of Balochistan (ASB) on Sunday welcomed the government’s move of appointing head of various national institutions, including the National College of Arts, from different provinces on merit bases.

In a joint statement issued here, ASB chairman Abdul Haleem Barach, deputy chairman Miraj Khoso and general secretary Imran Ali Khokar said that National College of Arts was also a national institution and Balochistan had nominal representation in the institution.

They said that the nomina-

tion of renewed painter and artist of the country, Jamal Shah, who belongs to Balochistan, for the top slot of the NCA along with two other candidates was an honour for the people of the province.