LAKKI MARWAT: The local administration, police and security officials have asked elders of border villages in the district to persuade wanted men to surrender to prevent crackdown.

The call was given a meeting between elders of Takhtikhel, Walai, Shagai and other rural localities and the administration officials at the police lines in the District Headquarters Complex, Tajazai, here on Friday.

Local deputy commissioner Bakhtiar Khan, district police officer Hasan Iqbal and security officials were also present.

The elders including district councillor Abdul Ghafoor Khan and former nazim Malik Idrees appreciated the search operation jointly conducted by police and security forces in border villages and said it helped improve law and order and clear the border areas of criminals.

They said the local residents would extend full cooperation to the law-enforcement agencies in the crackdown on miscreants and hardened criminals.

The elders said they won’t allow anyone to use their soil for violence.

The DPO asked elders to help the police maintain law and order and monitor the movement of suspected people.

He also called for a check on the firing in the air and display of weapons in border villages.

The deputy commissioner thanked local residents for support and cooperation against militants and said concerted efforts would continue for sustainable peace in the district.

MAN, WIFE KILLED IN ACCIDENT: A man and his wife were killed in an accident on Bannu-Di Khan Road near Umar Adda on Friday.

A police official said Hameedulah and his wife Zubaida Shaheen died instantly when a car they were travelling in hit an oil tanker from the rear side.

He said the deceased belonged to Badhaber area of Peshawar.

Published in Dawn, July 2nd, 2016