LAKKI MARWAT: The provincial government launched the process to reconstruct Tajazai-Darra Tang Road to ease traffic between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Punjab via Bannu-Mianwali artery.

The road is of vital importance as it links KP’s southern districts with Punjab and Islamabad through the CPEC route.

District Development Advisory Committee (DDAC) Chairman Johar Mohammad Khan MPA said that he brought the poor road condition into the notice of Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur with the request to direct relevant quarters for its dualisation and reconstruction.

He said that the chief minister had issued special directives in this regard and the project would be funded by the Asian Development Bank.

He said that the MPs from Bannu, Tank and North Waziristan and DI Khan districts also recommended dualisation and reconstruction of Tajazai-Darra Tang section of Bannu-Mianwali road.

He said that the KP’s additional chief secretary had been directed to process the road project. A local traders’ leader said that the public and goods transport vehicles from Bannu, Lakki Marwat, Tank and North Waziristan used this road for easy access to various districts in Punjab.

He said that the Tajazai-Darra Tang section of Bannu-Mianwali road was also a business route as traders from the southern region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa used it for transportation of trade goods from Punjab.

HONOUR KILLING: A man killed his wife in the name of honour in the Landidak area of Bannu on Saturday night.

Police sources said that Bismillah Khan opened fire on his wife inside his house, killing her on the spot.

“The killer was suspicious that his wife was having illicit relations with one Noor Mohammad, a resident of Faqeerabad Landidak area,” police said. The body of the woman was shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital to complete medico legal formalities.

A case has been registered against the killer and illicit partner of the deceased woman under relevant sections of law and further investigation is underway, police added.

Moreover, a man was shot dead and his brother received bullet injuries when armed rivals attacked them over a dispute of children’s quarrel in Khattakhel Kotka Qazyaan area of Bannu.

Police identified the deceased as Wali Zaman, 30, and said that his brother Wahid Khan, 17, was injured in the attack.

In another incident, Mohammad Aslam Khan and his nephew Waseem were murdered over an old enmity.

Police said that the double murder incident occurred on Hayatkhel-Sarga Kherukhel road in the limits of Shahbazkhel police station. “The shooters were named as Hayatullah, Adeen Shah and Naqeebullah in the FIR who managed to escape after committing crime,” police stated.

Published in Dawn, August 26th, 2024