CHARSADDA: Unknown persons on Monday gunned down a local Awami National Party leader in Tarnab area here.

Fazal Ali, brother of the deceased Walayat Shah, got registered FIR against unknown assailants. He told police that they had no enmity with any one.

ANP district president Barrister Arshad Abdullah and general secretary Mohammad Ahmed Khan condemned the killing and asked police to arrest the killers forthwith or they would launch a protest movement.Meanwhile, police on Monday exhumed the body of a man from the courtyard of his house, where he was buried by her two wives, after axing him to death in Dang Qilla area of Tangi tehsil.

Mir Alam, the brother of the deceased, Ihsanullah, had lodged an FIR with the police stating that his brother had been missing for the last three months, and accused his (the victim’s) two wives of murdering him. Afterwards, police interrogated his wives, who admitted to having killed their husband with the help of the victim’s son using knives and axe.

The deceased was later laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard.

In another incident occurred in Station Koroona area of Tangi, a man was shot dead by his rivals after exchange of hot words. The deceased was named Rehman Uddin. Lehaz Ali, brother of the deceased, nominated Shehzad, Nadeem and Zarshad in the murder of Rehman. And, a tractor hit and killed a woman in Umarzai bazaar here. The victim, Bakht Zeba of Amirabad area of Dir, was going to her relatives’ home when the tractor hit her. The tractor driver escaped the area.

Published in Dawn, August 26th, 2014