KOHAT: Jarma police here on Sunday foiled two separate attempts of smuggling weapons and drugs to Balochistan and Tank district from Darra Adamkhel and Khyber tribal district, respectively.

ASP Danial Ahmed and SHO Qismat Khan stopped a jeep bound for Quetta at Muslimabad checkpost on the Indus Highway and during search recovered 5,000 cartridges, 20 chargers and 10 pistols from its secret cavities.

The alleged smugglers were identified as Adnan and Mohammad Asif of Dera Ghazi Khan.

In the second incident, the SHO stopped a car at the checkpost and recovered more than five kilogrammes of hashish hidden in it. The police arrested suspects Mohammad Zaman and Noor Wali of Mariamzai area of Peshawar. The police have registered separate cases against the suspects.

LAND OWNERSHIP: MPA Zahoor Shakir from Thall tehsil of Hangu has assured the protesting Chapri Waziran jirga that the government will provide them ownership right of their century-old residential land.

He said that he had discussed the matter of ban on construction on the state land with Chief Minister Mahmood Khan and soon a formal strategy would be devised to resolve the matter amicably.

He told the former nazim Payao Khan Wazir, Taj Khan and other residents that if the people of big cities could be given ownership rights of state land they were also justified to get the land in their names.

Payao Khan and others thanked the MPA and said that they had high expectations from the government that it would resolve the issue of ban on construction of houses on Chapri Waziran land.

Published in Dawn, December 2nd, 2019