KOHAT: The traffic police on Sunday removed hundreds of pushcarts and other makeshift encroachments alongside the Jail Road and on the footpaths here to ensure smooth flow of vehicular traffic and pedestrians’ movement.

Traffic police in-charge Faheem Bangash and his deputy Arab Jan along with a team ordered the removal of pushcarts occupying the roadside.

Meanwhile, president of grand business alliance Haji Abid accused the tehsil municipal administration of taking money to allow pushcart owners to do business on the roadsides, disturbing flow of traffic and movement of pedestrians. He said a sasta bazaar had been established in the vicinity by the district administration a decade ago to shift roadside vendors there, but to no avail.

Mr Abid alleged the TMA had been issuing these vendors licences against daily payments from Rs400 to Rs500. They said the traffic police were doing the job of TMA.

A TMA official told Dawn that only the old bus stand had been allotted to the roadside vendors to do their business there.

Meanwhile, a man killed his wife and son-in-law in Junglekhel area here on Sunday, the police said.

They said the accused suspected his wife, 35, and son-in-law of being involved in immoral activities. They said the family originally belonged to Zanglai area of Peshawar and had recently migrated to Kohat and lived in a rented house.

The police said the accused escaped the area, and that they were trying to trace him after registering an FIR against him.

Separately, the cantonment police on Sunday arrested a proclaimed offender wanted in murder and attempted murder cases and had been absconding since 2015.

SHO Islamuddin said Irshad had been arrested during a raid on his hideout.

In another incident, SHO Shakardarra police station Irfan Khan leading a team arrested a dug peddler, Furqan belonging to Shakardarra town, and seized over two kilogrammes of hashish from him.

Published in Dawn, October 23rd, 2023