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DERA GHAZI KHAN, Sept 11: The local militants who brand them as Taliban are learnt to have threatened the family of a Sindho Bachao Tarla member to leave Shadan Lond (a village on Indus Highway), otherwise, they will blow up his residence for protesting against them.
Zafar Lond, a member of the Sindho Bachao Tarla (an organisation working to save the Indus and its ecology) met the district police officer, demanding registration of a case against the local Taliban who had threatened his father to leave the area for demonstrating at Kot Addu against Taliban.
The application contains six names, and Zafar claims that they all have sought training from Afghanistan.
District Police Officer Maqsoodul Hasan told Dawn that it was heartening to see people coming up with complaints against such elements, pledging to extend all possible help to the citizens.
The members of the Sindho Bachao Tarla took out several protest demonstrations against Taliban’s recent threats to CD/video shopkeepers at Kot Addu.
TRUCKERS LOOTED: Six highwaymen on Thursday morning deprived scores of truck drivers of cash and valuables at gunpoint on Dera–Quetta Road between Khar and Bewata, some 130km from here, while border military police (BMP) were `unaware’ of the incident.
Reports said the highwaymen continued their looting spree for an hour and robbed scores of drivers of valuables and cash. A BMP spokesperson said a case had been registered.
Sources told Dawn that BMP officers who had recently been transferred from Bewata border check post were allegedly involved in the incident as they did not want to leave their posting.
Political assistant and commandant of border military police, Tariq Mehmood Bukhari, and senior commandant/DCO Capt Asad (retired) were not available for comments despite repeated contacts.
