KHAR (Bajaur Agency), April 30: Bajaur Levy personnel shot and injured a tribesman when he failed to respond to their signal to stop at a checkpoint in the Omari area in the Mamond subdivision here on Sunday. Witnesses said that Shakirullah was going on a motorcycle to his village Kamel from the Inayat Kallay Bazaar when the levy force shot and injured him suspecting him of having links with the Taliban. They said that Shakirullah did not stop at the checkpoint, so the personnel opened fire injuring him. The 30-year-old man was taken into custody and moved to the Agency Headquarters Hospital in Khar.

Sources in the hospital said that Shakirullah was in critical condition.

They said that he was being kept in a separate room under high security, and added that visitors were not being allowed to see him.

Sources said that local authorities had launched an investigation to confirm whether the man had any links with the Taliban.

It may be mentioned here that a suspected Al Qaeda leader and a levy sepoy had been killed in a clash in the tribal agency last week.