KOHAT: The police during the ongoing search and strike operation on Sunday arrested scores of outlaws, including three illegally staying Afghans, from the Afghan refugee camps and adjoining areas and recovered arms and ammunition from them.

The Afghans were sent to the Kohat prison from where they would be deported to their country. The police teams also arrested eight people during checking of houses and hotels for not having residential documents and for non-registration of guests.

TWO KILLED: A watchman of a female religious seminary in Hafizabad was killed while going home near Jhandi Station on Sunday.

An official at the city police said that Skaukat Khan of Garhi Atta Khan was allegedly killed by rival Mohammad Zubair of Garhi Mawaz Khan over an old family dispute. The police later raided the house of Zubair and arrested him on the report of the victim’s brother, Nadir Khan.

The police registered case and began investigations.

Meanwhile, a woman was killed and her three children were injured when a Lachi-bound pickup met an accident on Indus Highway near Kohat prison on Sunday.

The Jarma police said that woman, Kausar Bibi and her three children, Suleman, Halal and Nehal, were seriously injured and taken to KDA divisional headquarters hospital, but Kausar Bibi succumbed to her injuries.

LEVIES FORCE: The political agent of Kohat’s Frontier Region, Kamran Afridi, has said that another batch of the levies police will be inducted soon to help wipe out militants and criminal gangs from Darra Adamkhel and other parts of the region.

Addressing the levies men at the tehsil headquarters of FR, he stressed that levies force would be made self-reliant to take action against any culprit or miscreant without the help of maliks who prolonged the jirgas for money making while the parties ran from pillar to post for justice.

OIL REFINERY: The government has deferred the construction of an oil refinery in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after its decision to extend in the existing Attock facility and establish an EU standard pollution free plant to boost present capacity, it is learnt reliably.

Talking to Dawn, an official of the Attock Petroleum on condition of anonymity said that the decision of extending Attock refinery and construction of an EU-quality plant was made because the country was spending billions of rupees on export of crude oil for refining purposes.

Published in Dawn February 16th , 2015

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