June 04, 2008	Wednesday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 29, 1429

MARDAN, June 3: A girl and a boy were allegedly gunned down by the father of the girl in the name of honour at Bakri Banda here on Tuesday, family sources claimed.

The sources said that a teenaged girl, daughter of Khaista Khan, and her alleged lover had eloped from Bakri Banda three days back to Punjab.

Father of the girl located and got them back to the village by telling them that they had committed no wrong, the sources said adding that on reaching the village three days ago, Khaista Khan, Gul Khan (uncle of the girl) and Mushtaq (her brother) shot and killed both and threw their bodies at a deserted area of the village.

Later, the Saddar police found the bodies and started investigation.

SMUGGLING BID FOILED: Mardan police claimed to have foiled an attempt of flour smuggling out of the district and seized two trucks loaded with wheat flour. Drivers of the trucks Ghulam Nabi and Arif were arrested and the vehicles impounded.

MISAPPROPRIATION ALLEGED: A lady councillor of the Mardan district council has accused some 22 male councillors of misappropriating Rs750,000 on their personal luxuries.

Lady councillor Lal Baha told this correspondent that the councillors during a 10-day tour of Karachi, which was meant to study the city’s local government system by holding meetings with nazims of various union councils, only visited tourist spots and stayed at costly hotels at the expense of public money.

LAID TO REST: A resident of Mardan identified as Muntazir Khan who was killed in the Denmark embassy explosion in Islamabad on Monday was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard at Muhib Banda on Monday night. The deceased was a security guard at the embassy.

WORKSHOP: Project Coordinator of Step Toward Empowerment of People (STEP), a non-governmental organization, Afshan Chishti has urged the people to create awareness among the people about the child rights.