July 26, 2008	Saturday	Rajab 22, 1429

LAKKI MARWAT, July 25: A local Taliban commander has been released on bail.

According to sources, Qari Sarfraz, who belonged to Giankhel tribe of Afghanistan, was set free on the orders of a court. He was arrested by Serai Naurang police on May 19, last year, and kept in sub jail Lakki Marwat, the sources said.

COMMITTEE FORMED: Elders of Ahmadzai and other adjacent villages constituted a ten-member committee to chalk out a strategy for curbing wheat and flour smuggling to the tribal areas and to ensure water in Marwat canal and end loadshedding.

The committee was formed in a meeting held at Malang Adda on Friday. Besides Nazim union council Bakhmal Ahmadzai Malik Mohammad Idrees Khan, Nazim union council Tajori Maulana Asghar Ali, PPP divisional president advocate Ihsanullah Khan, and people from different villages attended the meeting.

The meeting said that the smugglers used Ahmadzai and Tajori routes to transport wheat and flour to the tribal areas. They said that the smuggling continued despite checkposts on routes leading to the tribal region. They also expressed concern over loadshedding in the area.