MANSEHRA: A man killed his cousin here on Sunday allegedly to marry his wife.

“We have arrested a man who killed his cousin to marry his wife, a mother of eight-month baby,” Garhi Habibullah SHO Dilbar Shah told mediapersons.

He said that Mohammad Waqar was on way to his shop in Garhi Habibullah from Dilola on his motorcycle when his cousin Mohammad Faizan intercepted and fired at him, leaving him seriously injured.

The SHO said that the injured was taken to the civil hospital, Garhi Habibullah, were doctors pronounced him dead. He said that accused was having relations with the wife of the deceased and both wanted to get married.

In addition, Mr Shah said that identification of the body recovered from the Batrasi forests last week was also established with the name of Mohammad Khursheed. He said that the deceased belonged to Lahore and was currently settled in Janghi area of Abbottabad.

TEACHERS APPOINTED: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa education department has issued the appointment orders of as many as 32 senior science teaches to be posted at different schools in parts of the district.

District education officer Mohammad Tanveer Awan told mediapersons here on Sunday that the appointment letters were issued following completion of the formalities.

He said that the KP education department wanted quality education at the public sector schools and it was why vacant posts were being filled on priority.

Published in Dawn, July 25th, 2022