KARAK: A student of the Army Public School, Bannu, was killed in broad daylight in Latambar area here on Monday.

Eyewitnesses said the student, Zohaib Hassan, was going to Latamber bazaar to bring grocery for home when an attacker opened fire on him. He received several bullets and died on way to hospital. The suspected killer escaped the area.

Shoaib Khan, the slain boy’s father, informed the Latamber police that his son was shot dead by Sultanuddin of the same area over a petty dispute.

The police registered FIR against the suspect and started further investigations.

In another incident, body of a young man was found in Warana area of Takht-i-Nusrati tehsil. The police shifted the body to a health centre in Latamber where the relatives identified him as Yaqoob Khan.

The police handed over the body to the relatives after fulfilling legal formalities.

The police registered case on the complaint of Irfan, brother of the slain, and started further investigations.

PTI RIFTS WIDEN: Differences between local PTI lawmakers and ‘ideological’ workers have further widened as the latter has decided to field their own candidates for the forthcoming local government elections in the district.

An announcement to this effect was made at a convention of the ‘PTI ideological workers’ held at Town Hall here on Monday.

MPA Deena Naz, former PTI district president Altaf Qadir, former president for southern region Engineer Rasheed, PTI president for the Gulf Engineer Haroon and the ulema wing leader Mufti Rehman Taj were also in attendance.

The speakers claimed that PTI in Karak had been hijacked by selfish and self-centered leaders and the ideological workers had no say in party affairs.

They rejected the so-called parliamentary board of the party at the district level for awarding tickets to the aspiring candidates for the local bodies’ elections.

They resolved to field own candidates on all the seats, and claimed that they would prove ideological workers were the real asset of the party.

They accused the local lawmakers of promoting own relatives and friends in total disregard to the party manifesto.

Published in Dawn, March 31st, 2015

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