OHAT, Nov 18: The district coordination officer on Friday cancelled leaves of the staff of the line departments from 1st to 10th of Muharram to make proper arrangements for maintaining law and order during the upcoming month.

The DCO Shahiudllah Khan said a control room was being established to monitor the situation during Muharram.

Shahiudllah Khan issued the directives while chairing a meeting at his office which was attended by all the executive district officers, executive engineers, tehsil municipal officer, district revenue officer and representatives of Frontier Highway Authority.

He asked the officials that no leniency would be tolerated in case of any security lapse during Muharram.

The meeting also decided to ban the entry of Afghan refugees into the Kohat city during Muharram processions and arrange an excavator to deal with any emergency.

He strictly ordered the tehsil municipal officer to keep the roads clean and install missing streetlights on the routes of the mourning processions.

The health department was asked to collect enough blood donations for use in case of any untoward incident and keep all the ambulances ready.

NARCOTICS SEIZED: The police on Friday seized huge cache of narcotics being smuggled to down country from Darra Adamkhel and arrested four people. A woman and his two sons were among those arrested.

The District Police Officer Mubarek Zeb Khan told journalists the police of Riaz Khan Shaheed police station stopped a car number LXC-0892 coming from Darra Adam Khel at a checkpost on the Indus Highway.

Upon search of the vehicle the police found 62 kilograms of fine quality hashish and five kilograms of opium hidden in secret cavities.

The accused were identified as Tahira Bibi, his sons Ali and Suleman, residents of Dera Ismail Khan and Amjid Iqbal, a resident of South Waziristan Agency.

Similarly, the police recovered fake currency from a man identified as Mohammad Shehzad of Jand area of Attock district at the same checkpost.

EXAMINATION: The students of Kohat Medical College have appealed to the governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to take notice of unusual delay in holding of final year examination.—Correspondent