KARAK: A man was kidnapped and his relative was injured in Mardankhel area of Banda Daud Shah tehsil on Sunday.

Police said that some attackers entered the house of Fazal Sharif in Mardankhel area and opened fire on the inmates, injuring one Tahir and taking away his relative, Shahidullah, at gunpoint.

Their relatives registered case in Teri police station against Amal Sharif and others.

In another incident in Mianki Banda area of Takht-i-Nusrati subdivision, unknown thieves broke the locks of a grocery store at night and took away cash and goods. Police registered case and began efforts to nab the culprits after being informed by the store owner, Arshadullah Khan.

WATER SHORTAGE: Residents of Kamanger and Gharkalay villages have threatened to protest if concerned authorities don’t remove illegal connections taken from the pipeline supplying water to the villages.

Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, the residents said that they had been getting water from a water supply scheme completed in 1987, but now the people of the area, where the pipeline was passing through, had taken illegal connections from it. They said that they had brought the issue to the notice of public health engineering department’s officials, but to no avail.

Published in Dawn, September 1st, 2014