KOHAT: A policeman allegedly shot dead his parents and a nephew in Miangan colony in the wee hours on Wednesday.

Abid Masood told the Riaz Khan Shaheed police that he received a call of his brother, constable Sadiq Zaman, at around 5.30am that he (Zaman) had killed his father, Omer Zaman, mother, Nighat Yasmeen, and nephew, Sameer Rehman, and was also going to kill him (Abid).

The complainant said that the policeman accused his family of taking sides with his former wife, whom he had divorced a few months back.

“After receiving the call, I rushed to the house of my parents from my Naway Kalay residence and found my parents and nephew lying in a pool of blood,” he told police, adding that the killer had escaped the area.

The police after registering case launched efforts to arrest the accused.

AZADI MARCH: Thousands of people from six districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will gather at Kohat Company Park and Zero Point to leave for Islamabad in the Azad March on Thursday.

District development advisory committee chairman Ziaullah Bangash claimed this while talking to reporters on Wednesday. He said that while PTI workers from KP-38 would gather at the Company Park, workers from KP-39 and other five southern districts would assemble at Zero Point on the Indus Highway. Later, they would be joined by the workers from KP-37 at Gumbat on the Rawalpindi Road, he maintained.

Mr Bangash said that the caravan would be led by MNA Shehryar Afridi, provincial assembly deputy speaker Imtiaz Shahid Qureshi and PTI lawmakers from the southern districts.

He said that the caravan would include vehicles and thousands of motorcycles, adding that the march would start at around 2pm and reach Islamabad in the evening. He said that if the government blocked the vehicles, the marchers would reach Islamabad on foot.

Meanwhile, a police official told Dawn on phone that both the old and new bridge at Khushalgarh remained opened to traffic as the government had not issued any orders for their closure. However, he said the Kohat-Rawalpindi Road might be closed on the Punjab side.

Published in Dawn, Aug 14th, 2014