CHARSADDA: Traders and other residents here on Tuesday blocked the main Peshawar-Charsadda road to traffic in protest against slow pace of work on a portion of the road from Farooq Azam Chowk to Qazikhel Pul.

The road was dug up two months ago, but it could not be repaired as yet while people continue to face problems. The enraged shopkeepers blocked the road and started collecting money to repair it on self-help basis in order to record their protest over slow pace of work.

On this occasion, they also criticised the local lawmakers for their failure to force the concerned quarters to resolve this issue immediately. The protesters held a rally at the DC Chowk and demanded the government to complete work on the road as soon as possible.

MUDER CASES RESOLVED: The Charsadda police claimed to have arrested six persons in three murder cases.

The deceased included contractor Noor Rehman and traders Anis and Shoeb.

Addressing a press conference here, DSP city Ihsan Shah and Prang police station SHO Ashfaq Khan said a police team probed the murder of Noor Rehman who was killed on Jan 11, 2022, in Mian Kalley area. They said the accused woman in her statement to police said she had friendly relations with Noor for the last 13 years. She stated that Noor was involved in two murders and relatives of the two deceased killed him.

She told police that in 2013 Noor and Gul Rehman had snatched a car from Shoeb and killed him. She claimed that Noor also killed one Anis of Majoki village on Aug 20, 2021, on suspicion he had secret relation with her.

She stated that deceased Anis’s brother Ashiq and cousin Kazim and deceased Shoeb’s cousins Rizwan and Imran had jointly killed Noor Rehman in front of her house.

The police arrested all the accused, including Abdullah and Gul Rehman, allegedly involved in the murder of Anis and Shoeb and have started further investigations.

Published in Dawn, February 2nd, 2022