HARIPUR: The police have claimed that two robbers were killed by members of their own gang during an encounter on Tuesday evening.

District police officer Kashif Aftab Abbasi told reporters here on Wednesday that the personnel of Kotnajibullah police station were carrying out a snap checking on Sarri Road near the Afghan Camp when two motorcycles with four helmet-wearing men appeared but sped away after the police signaled them to stop. He said the police chased the men causing the latter to fire bullets, which injured constable Waqas and damaged the police van.

The DPO said the firing also killed two of those men, who were later found to be robbers, while the others fled leaving the motorcycles behind.

He said one of the deceased, Adeeb Murtaza of Moonan village, was wanted for killing a police constable and injuring five people during robberies and 22 other crimes, while the other, Atiq of Jabi Baka village, was also an absconder.

Meanwhile, Council of Islamic Ideology chairman Prof Qibla Ayaz has said the Paigham-i-Pakistan document was tabled in parliament after approval by the CII for a ‘dignified, prosperous and peaceful’ Pakistan.

He was addressing the participants of ‘Paighan-i-Pakistan for Peaceful Pakistan Conference’ at the University of Haripur here on Wednesday.

The CCI chairman said parliamentary leaders of political parties were being approached to seek their support for the document in the National Assembly and Senate.

He said as the militants martyred 150 children and teachers inside the Peshawar Army Public School, the state decided to enforce its writ in the country leading to the development of the Paigham-i-Pakistan document in 2017.

Prof Ayaz said the document was approved by religious scholars and ulema of all sects.

He said peace was imperative for the country’s independent economic and foreign policies.

Director General at the Islamic Research Institute of the Islamic International University Islamabad Dr Mohammad Ziaul Haq and VC Prof Anwarul Hasan Gilani also spoke on the occasion. Prizes were later distributed to the winners of a Paigham-i-Pakistan contest.

Published in Dawn, January 20th, 2022