December 29, 2008	Monday	Zilhaj 30, 1429

MANSEHRA, Dec 28: The executive district officer (education), Kohistan region, and his three family members including two girls, were killed as the jeep they were travelling in plunged into a deep ravine here on Sunday.

EDO Abdul Saboor, along with his brother Mohammad Shareen, daughter Bibi Rehman and niece Gul Qamra, was on way to Bisham. While negotiating a sharp turn in Jalkot area of Kohistan district, Mr Saboor lost control of the vehicle as a result it fell into a hundreds of feet deep ravine, killing all the four inmates on the spot.

Puttan police with the help of the locals retrieved the bodies and dispatched them to Jalkot.

Meanwhile, Balakot police claimed on Sunday to have apprehended a member of the interprovincial gang of narcotics peddlers and recovered 33 kg of chars of high quality from him.

Speaking at a press conference SHO Khursheed Tanoli said, on a tip-off, a police party raided a house in Narah area of Balakot and recovered 33 kg of chars and arrested the accused Mohammad Arshad.

Mr Tanoli said Arshad was part of the gang, which smuggled narcotics and contrabands from tribal areas to Punjab and NWFP.

FEUD CLAIMS WOMAN LIFE: A woman was shot dead on Sunday in the jurisdiction of Pulrah police. The police said the woman became the victim of an old feud between two rival groups of Danna area of Tanawal, -- one headed by Sikandar alias Kanda, and the other by Sardar alias Sardara.

According to the police, Zohra Bibi, wife of Mohammad Sikandar, was on her way to Mansehra from Danna to meet her imprisoned brother, but was shot dead in Davrian locality by Mohammad Munah, Mohammad Chanza and Alim Zeb, all brothers and members of the Sardara group.

The police claimed that so far sixty people from both the groups have been killed, including seven women.

The bloody enmity between Kanda and Mohammad Sardar alias Sardara groups started some six years ago when a couple each from two clans of Baghal tribe of Tanawal got love marriages and fled to Karachi.