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PESHAWAR, Dec 10: Burglars shot dead a man in Haider Colony in the wee hours of Tuesday.
Khalil-ur-Rehman lodged an FIR with Gulbahar police station, stating that at round 12:30am he sensed movement of some people on the rooftop of the branch of Allied Bank Limited, situated adjacent to his house.
His one son went outside, while another son, Bahadar Khan, went to the rooftop of his house to ascertain the situation.
Khalil said about 12 armed men who intended to enter the bank, started firing on Bahadar Khan, killing him on the spot. Later, they fled.
Sources said that the same armed group had also gone to Sheikhabad, but the area people opened fire on them, forcing bandits to withdraw.
Peshawar President of Shabab-i-Milli Jamshed Munir has announced a protest demonstration against these two incidents in front of Gulbahar police station on Wednesday.
ARRESTED: Two foreign women were arrested by the Anti-Narcotics Force on the charge of possessing 203 heroin-filled capsules at Peshawar airport.
Sources told Dawn that a Tanzanian national Joseph Clara and a Kenyan woman Njoroge Tapo were arrested by the ANF team on the suspension of keeping heroin-filled capsules in their stomach from the international terminal of Peshawar Airport on Monday.
Both the women were brought to a hospital where doctors recovered 110 capsules filled with heroin from the stomach of Joseph Clara and 93 capsules from Njoroge Tapo’s stomach.
The arrested women appeared before a local court on Tuesday, where both of them confessed to smuggle heroin. They said that their Pakistani accomplice in Lahore had asked them to get the flight from Peshawar as during the Eid holidays checking would be lenient.
They said they work for drug mafia in their respective countries.
