PESHAWAR: Two people including a policeman were killed in different incidents in the provincial metropolis on Sunday.

A constable of Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) identified as Abdul Waqar was killed in a motorcycle accident near Barang Mosque in the limits of Regi police station.

An official of Regi police station told this correspondent that the constable, accompanied by his cousin Sabir Shah, was returning from a wedding party of their relative Shoaib Khan at Sufaid Sang village when his motorcycle skidded off the road. Both of them fell on the ground and the pistol of Abdul Waqar went off, he said, adding the policeman sustained bullet injury.

The official said that he was rushed to Khyber Teaching Hospital but he could not survive. His cousin Sabir Shah sustained minor injuries owing to falling from the motorcycle, he added.

In another incident, a woman identified as Malika, wife of Majeed Khan, was killed inside her residence in Shobar area in the limits of Badhber police station on the outskirts of Peshawar.

An official of the police station said that the woman’s brother Hanif Khan in his report said that he received a telephone call from his brother-in-law that his sister had committed suicide. “I am sure that my sister didn’t commit suicide but her husband hanged her,” Hanif Khan alleged. He demanded of the police to arrest his brother-in-law as he was involved in her ‘murder’.

257 suspects held during operation in different areas of KP

Meanwhile, police claimed to have arrested 257 suspected persons and recovered arms and ammunitions during search and strike operations in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A police spokesman said that the operations were conducted in different parts of the province where police also recovered 58 arms of different kinds. He said during the operation 570 houses and 290 hotels were checked and 13 cases were registered against the violators in different police stations.

Police also continued snap checking at 134 checkpoints and rounded up 200 suspects and recovered 14 arms from their possession. Also, the spokesman said, during the operation police arrested 46 Afghan nationals, who were living illegally in the province.

Published in Dawn March 2nd , 2015

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