KOHAT: A man and a woman were killed by relatives for honour here, the police said on Tuesday.

The police have lodged cross FIRs on the report of the victims’ relatives, and also arrested one of the suspects.

In the first FIR lodged on Monday night, the father of the slain man, accused his two sons and as many nephews of the murder. He said the accused came to his house in Tappi area on Monday night, went upstairs and shot dead his son and then fled.

In the second FIR, the mother of the slain woman nominated the father of the slain man, his two sons and a nephew for the killing of her young daughter, who was also the wife of a brother of the slain man. She said the murder took place on Tuesday morning.

The Mohammad Riaz police said the deceased woman had been accused of having illicit relationship with the victim, the brother of her husband.

SHO Afzal Awan said the main accused nominated by the mother of the killed woman had been arrested.

The bodies were shifted to the KDA Teaching Hospital and, after autopsy, were handed over to relatives.

ARREST: The district administration picked up local emir of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan, Hafiz Hamid Chishti, from his seminary the other day to stop him from marching to Rawalpindi.

The police raided his seminary in Zargran Bazaar and took the 70-year-old away.

COMMITTEE FINALISED: The Muhammadzai tribe of Kohat has finalised a four-member committee as per a jirga decision and forwarded it to the Kohat division commissioner for the solution to a 40-year-long land dispute with the Bezot tribe of the Orakzai tribal district.

Gul Mir Khan, an elder of Muhammadzai tribe, told Dawn on Tuesday that the Bezot tribe had also finalised names of its respective committee, and their meeting would be held soon.

Gul Mir claimed they had got vacated their land grabbed by the Bezot tribe, which also regularly kidnapped and killed the shepherds of Muhammadzai tribe and stole the cattle which entered their jungle.

Published in Dawn, April 14th, 2021