PESHAWAR, Oct 25: The city police have decided to patrol the areas near the tribal belt alongside the Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel to challenge the increasing cases of kidnapping and carjacking.

Sources in police told Dawn here on Thursday that the decision in this regard was taken on the instructions of the NWFP Governor Iftikhar Hussain Shah after he took serious notice of the increase in the crime in Matani and Badhber areas near Darra Adam Kheil tribal belt.

Sources said that Matani and Badhber areas had caused serious problems for the travellers from Peshawar to Kohat, as the outlaws generally take refuge in the tribal areas.

Sources informed that during the Mehtab government in the NWFP, the law enforcement agencies used to move in convoys through the tribal belt between Peshawar and Kohat.

Later on, after the assurance to improve the law and order situation by the then DIG Peshawar range, Tanveer Sipra, the vehicles were allowed to pass through the tribal belt not in convoys.

But after their failure in providing security to the travellers, the police decided to patrol the Matani and Badhber areas alongside FC personnel, they maintained. Meanwhile, the political administration of Khyber Agency on Thursday arrested two outlaws in Bara area after an exchange of fire.

Sources in Bara told Dawn that the khasadar force and Masood Scouts personnel on Thursday morning raided the house of proclaimed offenders namely, Mohammad Karim and Amin Gul in Shalober Qamberkheil area of Bara. On seeing the law enforcement agencies’ personnel, both the POs opened fire and hurled hand-grenades at them.