KOHAT, June 7: The tribesmen of Jawaki area in Frontier Region of Kohat have demanded of the authorities to launch operation against militants and their harbourers in Tor Chappar locality of Darra Adamkhel to stop rocket attacks on their homes.

The rocket and bomb attacks on the members of local peace committee and blasts at passenger vans have created a sense of insecurity among the tribesmen of Ara Khel, Jammu and Jawaki areas of FR Kohat.

“Militants attack our area from the mountains of Tor Chappar and then disappear in the house of their harbourers,” they alleged.

Several persons including women, children and passengers had been killed in such attacks despite the presence of security forces in Darra Adamkhel. “The number of attacks has been increasing with each passing day,” said Shafarish Khan, a local elder.

He said that militants fired four rockets at the residential area of Jawaki on late Monday night. The rockets came from the mountains of Tor Chappar, he added.

Security forces had vacated Ara Khel region in Jawaki last month for launching a final operation against militants. But even shelling by helicopter gunships at the alleged hideouts of militants in the said mountains did not stop the rocket attacks. KILLED:

Two persons were killed and another received injuries over an old enmity in Shakardarra area here on Tuesday.

Police said that Amal Khan and Rab Nawaz killed Mumtaz Begum and Nazar Gul inside their home over an old family dispute in Janak area of Shakardarra. The accused managed to escape, they added.

Atiqueur Rehman was injured in the incident and was shifted to a hospital.

Meanwhile, police claimed to have solved the mystery of burning of a woman to death under mysterious circumstances in Mir Ahmed area and arrested the father-in-law of the victim on Tuesday.

Police said that despite repeated requests by the father of the victim for postmortem her in-laws wanted to bury her in haste. The victim was later brought to women and children hospital for autopsy where doctors stated that she had sings of torture on her body.

Police investigated the issue and arrested Abdul Qayyum, the father-in-law of the victim, and registered cases against her brother-in-law Zafar and her sisters-in-law Asfa and Fauzia.