August 14, 2008	Thursday	Sha'aban 11, 1429

KOHAT, Aug 13: Local militants established a permanent headquarters in the residences of a former MNA and a sitting senator after retaking control of Darra Adamkhel despite the presence of a large number of security personnel in the area.

An official and eyewitnesses told Dawn on Wednesday that after distributing leaflets on Monday in which they had asked tribesmen and shopkeepers not to sell food items to security forces, the militants forcibly shut down seven coal mines where labourers were supplying food to personnel of the Frontier Corps deployed at the mountains.

Khasadar personnel have also stopped performing their duties in Darra Adamkhel due to fear of being killed by the militants and are confined to their homes.

Sources said the militants had taken over the houses of former MNA from FR Nasim Afridi and Senator Abdur Razziq located in the busy bazaar and were using them as their new headquarters.

DOCTOR KILLED: A doctor was killed in his clinic in the KDA Township by armed men disguising as patients on Wednesday.

A servant of Dr Liaquat Ali, an orthopaedic surgeon, told the Jangle Khel police that two young boys aged between 16 and 20 came to the clinic and obtained their number after paying the fee. They entered the clinic on their turn and then came out immediately and ran towards the door. The people inside the clinic shouted that they had killed the doctor. He said he tried to catch them but they fled on a motorcycle.