January 08, 2008	Tuesday	Zilhaj 28, 1428

PESHAWAR, Jan 7: A group of men took away at gunpoint a double-cabin Datsun escorting Malik Riaz, an adviser to the NWFP chief minister, on the Kohat Road on Sunday night.

Sources said the adviser was on his way from Lakki Marwat to Peshawar when the masked men signalled his driver to stop. Sniffing trouble, the driver sped away.

But they overwhelmed taking away the Datsun in which Mr Riaz’s gunman was escorting behind him.

A police official said the militants had also snatched a klashinkov from the guard.

The militants, who were going towards Peshawar, were later chased by a police party in the limits of the Matani police station.

As a result of a shootout with the militants, a police constable, Faizul Haq, was injured in the leg. The adviser’s guard was an employee of the Information Department, NWFP.