KOHAT, Jan 15: The police recovered a cache of weapons from a car and arrested two accused on Indus Highway here on Tuesday.

A police official said that the weapons were being taken from Darra Adamkhel to down country in a car, which had passed through at least four checkpoints in Kohat before reaching Lachi. The weapons recovered from the car (AC-435) included two Kalashnikovs, three sten guns, one repeater and 11 pistols besides 29 chargers and 800 cartridges.

They said that the accused Ahmed Sher of Gujrat and Meraj Mohammad of Chitral had been arrested. The Lachi police registered a case and presented the accused before a court, which sent them to Kohat prison.

KIMS BUILDING: The recommendatory body on Kohat Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) on Tuesday proposed alternative land for construction of the institute’s building after seven years of its establishment.

Kohat commissioner Sahibzada Anees chaired the meeting of the body here in his office.

Wisal Khattak, an assistant at the commissioner’s office, told this correspondent that the meeting discussed proposals for construction of the KIMS building for which 25 kanals had already been bought from the Kohat Development Authority (KDA).

Now, the committee wanted that alternative land should be bought in phase-II of the KDA near the divisional headquarters hospital, which had been given the status of a teaching hospital.

The meeting was attended by KIMS principal Nasir Jamal Khattak, KDA project director, deputy commissioner and other related officials.

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