LAKKI MARWAT, June 8: Police on Friday arrested two people after recovery of two kidnapped women and a minor child from their custody during a raid on a house in Meer Azam Michenkhel area here.
All recovered people, Farzana, her sister Rukhsana and two-year-old son Annas Abbas, were the residents of Piplan area of Mianwali district, while they were kept by human traffickers Dilawar and Mohammad Shah.
A police official said the two arrested men along with Yaseen and Abdul Wahab had shifted the three kidnapped people to Lakki Marwat after purchasing them for Rs350,000 in Punjab.
He said the two, who had close links with a notorious inter-provincial gang of human traffickers, kidnapped women before selling them or using them for prostitution.
The official said police had begun a search for the arrested men’s accomplices. He said police began investigation after registering a case.
Earlier this week, June 4 to exact, police arrested three men when they were shifting Razia Bibi, who was kidnapped from Gujranwala and taken to DI Khan, to an unidentified place via Lakki Marwat.
Also in the day, police arrested two proclaimed offenders in the limits of Haibat Ali Khan Shaheed and Tajori police stations.
The arrested men, Imran and Adam Khan, were wanted by police for murder, attempted murder and other crimes.
Meanwhile, a jirga comprising Abakhel elders and political and religious leaders on Friday announced to resist the relocation of a proposed cadet college from Abakhel area of Lakki Marwat.
The jirga met at the District Headquarters Complex, Tajazai, to develop consensus among locals against those opposed to the cadet college’s establishment.
ANP senior vice president Mumraiz Khan alleged that elder Aslam Khan Essakhel got a stay order from a court at the behest of Saifullah brothers against the college project.
He said the chief minister had approved the college’s establishment at the request of ANP MPA Yasmeen Zia and her husband Sadruddin after people of Abakhel promised to provide 500 kanals of land for it free of cost.
Mr Mumraiz alleged that Saifullah brothers wanted to deprive local youth of quality education near their houses by opposing the project.
He appealed to the Supreme Court and Peshawar High Court chief justices to order early vacation of the stay order by the relevant court, saying it’ll help begin work on the project.
Another elder Ameer Nawaz Khan said efforts would be made to ensure early establishment of the cadet college.