DERA GHAZI KHAN, Sept 24: The Border Military Police senior commandant has sought a report about theft of the century-old coffin of a British national.

The report has been sought from the officials on the direction of the BMP risaldar following desecration of the grave by unidentified foreigners.

A group of eight foreigners, including three women, had illegally stayed at a Fort Munro cemetery and escaped with the coffin of Maud Evelyn, the wife of an Indian Army Punjab Commission’s captain.

It is alleged that the Punjab police escorted them at the border of the tribal area but their information was not signalled to the Border Military Police as it is done during the routine movement of foreigners crossing the area for Balochistan. Ironically, neither the BMP nor the provincial law enforcers keep record of these ‘suspicious’ foreigners.

It is pertinent to mention that there are three cemeteries in Dera Ghazi Khan — one at Fort Munro tribal area and the other two in the settled area.