KOHAT: Two students and a police inspector were injured when two groups of students clashed in Kohat University of Science and Technology here on Friday.

Sources said that the students belonging Khattak group attacked the Waziristan group after a male student allegedly misbehaved with a girl student belonging to Karak.

The students from both sides used bricks to attack each other. As a result, two students, Tanveer and Gohar Iqbal of Karak, were seriously injured and taken to KDA divisional headquarters hospital.

A police inspector, Gul Janan Khan, who was called to control the situation, was also beaten up by the students.

He was taken to the hospital with a head injury.

The sources said that both the groups and the university administration were engaged in talks for defusing the situation.

Till filing of this report the police have not registered the case.

RAPE CASE: A local court remanded two accused, including a brother of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly deputy speaker Imtiaz Shahid Qureshi, for seven days into police custody in a gang rape case here on Friday.

The two accused, Safdar Qureshi and his relative Asmatullah, were arrested on Thursday evening on the charges of raping a girl in Shakardarra town here on Wednesday.

Safdar Qureshi is the senior vice-president of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Shakardarra chapter, and brother of the deputy speaker.

The victim girl, 26, went to the police station along with her brother Nasir and told the police that her parents had gone to the fields for wheat harvest and she was alone in her house when Safdar and Asmatullah entered the house and subjected her to sexual abuse.

The police was first hesitant to arrest the influential accused, but registered the case against the two on the insistence of local elders.

The in-charge of Shakardarra police station told Dawn that the accused were produced in a local court on Friday and the judge remanded them into police custody for seven days.

A police official claimed that after registration of the FIR the girl would be taken for medical examination so as to ascertain whether she was subjected to sexual abuse or not.

JUI-F EXPELS MEMBERS: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl has expelled three of its members for violating the party discipline during the last general elections in PK-37.

They had been charged with dividing the party on ethnic basis, inciting hooliganism during the elections.

According to a JUI-F notification, the nazim of elections, Maulana Saeedullah, conducted an inquiry into the allegations and expelled Maulana Abdur Raheem of Dhoda, Qari Riaz Gul of Siyab and Maulana Sanaullah of Bahadar Kot from the party.

Meanwhile, the price review committee fixed the prices of 48 edible items, including pulses, rice, soft drinks, etc and asked the traders to sell commodities on official rates and refrain from hoarding.

Assistant commissioner Farrukh Atique chaired the committee meeting here on Friday, which was attended by the traders’ representatives.