KOHAT: The customs officials impounded two non-custom paid cars, huge quantity of tea and millions of rupees worth of dry batteries being smuggled from Afghanistan to down country at the Kohat tunnel checkpost here on Sunday.

Spokesman for the customs department Pir Naeem Shah told this scribe on phone that the two cars with fake number plates were coming from Kurram Agency after crossing the Afghan border and were destined for Karachi.

Also, 1,500 kg of tea and 85 large dry batteries were being ferried to Bannu and Dera Islamil Khan from a Peshawar warehouse which had been brought from Afghanistan.

The officials had taken into custody a truck (E-5500 Peshawar) and Mazda (LHR-1101) along with the drivers in which the illegal consignments were being smuggled. Cases of smuggling have been registered against the carriers of the non-custom paid cars and drivers of other two vehicles.

FIVE INJURED: Five members of a family were injured in firing by a rival group over a brawl among children at Garhi Mawaz Khan here on Sunday.

The city police said that according to the FIR three brothers Shehbaz Ahmed, Sheraz Ahmed and Farhan Ahmed opened fire on Mohammad Tassawar, Mohammad Khan, Rehmat Khan, Nafees Raza and Zubair Khan following a fight between children of both the families. The injured were taken to a local hospital. The police registered the case and later arrested Shehbaz and Sheraz.

Meanwhile, a young man was killed and three inmates of a car were injured when it overturned near Bilitang here on Sunday. According to police, the car was going to Gumbat from Kohat city. They said a young man Ayaz Khan died on the spot while Nasir Khan, Javed Iqbal and Mohammad Nafees suffered injuries. The injured have been admitted to the KDA hospital.

Published in Dawn, June 12th, 2017