LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Feb 22: The principal of the Government Degree College in Kohi Sher Haider, who was kidnapped on Feb 11, managed to escape from his captors in Bara on Wednesday.

Principal Sabir Shah was kept in a house in the Nao Gazi Baba area. Official sources in Bara said that the principal broke the door of the house and escaped.

A college student of the area identified the principal and took him to the tehsil offices in Bara. He was later allowed to go with his relatives.

Students of the college had taken out a procession against his kidnapping on Feb 11, in which a student, Aurangzeb, was killed when the Khasadar force opened fire on them near Jamrud.

The Bara Peace Committee had earlier constituted a tribal Lashkar to demolish the house of outlaw Wakil Khan for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping of the principal.

Meanwhile, gunmen kidnapped the pesh imam of the Bara Jamia Masjid on Tuesday night.

Sources said that Maulana Ehsanullah was on his way back home when he was abducted at gun point in the Akkakhel area.

The firebrand Maulana Ehsanullah, who had migrated from Afghanistan 30 years ago, was the pesh imam of the Bara mosque since then.

Another controversial cleric, Mufti Munir Shakir, had been demanding the removal of Maulana Ehsanullah through some sermons delivered on his FM radio station since the expulsion of his opponent Pir Saifur Rehman from Bara some three weeks ago.

The Maulana’s son filed a report with the Bara political authorities. He alleged that his father had received threats from the Mufti’s supporters, who had warned him to leave Bara.