KOHAT: Officials of the district administration and the industries department in a crackdown on Sunday sealed 48 illegal points selling Iranian petrol and diesel.

Assistant commissioner Usman Ashraf and assistant director of industries department Khalid Azmat confiscated the nozzles used in filling the bottles, cans and drums.

Mr Ashraf said operators of these points used chemically-mixed solvents in the Iranian petroleum, which was harmful for the vehicle engines. He said such points were operating without obtaining licence.

Transformer thieves: Unknown thieves pulled down a transformer during loadshedding hours in Zara Mel Qureshabad area of Jarma here on Saturday night and took away oil and costly coils from it, plunging the area into pitch darkness, the local elders complained on Sunday.

They accused the Peshawar Electric Supply Company officials of failing to curb such incidents. They alleged pulling down transformers and dismantling them was not possible without the connivance of local Pesco officials.

Meanwhile, unknown thieves took away a rickshaw parked outside a house in Shinokhel area of the city on Sunday.

Mohammad Faheem told the city police that he had parked his three-wheeler outside his house.

The police registered a case and started efforts to trace the thief.

Separately, a team comprising officials of revenue, police and food departments raided a warehouse in Warshand area of Lachi tehsil and seized 14,250 kilogrammes of sugar packed in 285 bags of 50kg each on Sunday.

Deputy commissioner Dr Azmatullah Wazir told Dawn that soon after getting information a team was constituted to raid the warehouse.

Mr Wazir appealed to the traders to avoid indulging in sugar hoarding as it was causing artificial shortage of the commodity in the markets.

ARRESTED: The cantonment police arrested several drug peddlers and recovered the contraband from them during operations on Sunday.

The drug peddlers were identified as Amjid, Suleman, Sudais, Irshad and Umair of Mohammadzai area, and Noor Ali of Kaghazai.

The recovery included 1.4 kilogrammes of ice drug, 2.2kg of hashish and one pistol. Cases were registered against them.

Published in Dawn, September 18th, 2023