KOHAT, Sept 14: Police arrested a man and his mother after recovering seven kilogrmmes of hashish and opium from their possession on Indus Highway here on Wednesday.

The Indus Highway police stopped a passenger van coming from Darra Adamkhel at the Kohat tunnel toll plaza and during routine checking recovered six kilogrammes of hashish and one kilogramme of opium from the possession of a man and woman.

They two, identified as Razia Bibi and her son Abdul Manan, residents of Peshawar, were taken to Junglekhel police station.

In Hangu, armed men burnt a house of a villager on Wednesday over the killing of a child at Dory Banda area.

Eyewitnesses said that a man had been accused of killing the son of one Gul Ajab Khan a month ago and a jirga asked the tribe to turn over the man, but he escaped.

On Wednesday, members of the victim’s family burnt his house. When contacted, Togh Sarai police said that they had registered a case against one Zandi Gul for taking law into his hands and leading a mob for burning the house.

FOOD PRICES: Kohat Commissioner Sahibzada Mohammad Anees, while chairing a meeting of the divisional revenue committee here on Wednesday, asked the officers to ensure stability of prices and availability of food items.

The commissioner also expressed satisfaction over the status of mutation cases of Karak and court cases of Hangu.

Meanwhile, the local administration on Wednesday expelled a cleric, who was arrested a day earlier for giving controversial sermons, from the district to Punjab. —Correspondent