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Peshawar calamity
Bahria Town announces huge relief package
News Desk
RAWALPINDI: The Bahria Town Chairman Malik Riaz on Sunday announced millions of rupees relief to the victims of devastating rain and deadly wind storm which left at least 39 people dead and over 150 injured. While announcing the relief package, he said that Bahria Town had arranged 30-bed hospital, 3 mobile hospitals, medicines, food and other things for the relief of the victims of the calamity that hit Peshawar and its adjoining areas on Sunday.

‘Anti-encroachment drive to continue
till last encroachment removed’
By our correspondent
NAWABSHAH: The anti-encroachment drive against illegal occupation of Municipal area would continue till the removal of last encroachment. This was promised by Deputy Commissioner Tahir Husain Sangi during a meeting with district administration here on Sunday.

Burney demands strict action against terrorists
KARACHI: Chairman of Ansar Burney Trust Ansar Burney has strongly condemned silence of the political leadership in Pakistan on brutal murder of innocent people.In a press release on Sunday, Ansar Burney announced to visit Balochistan soon to create awareness for human dignity and to condemn killings. He said earlier in a terror attack in Turbat the militants killed 20 poor labourers who belonged to Sindh and Punjab provinces and were working on a bridge at Sohrab Dam in Gagdan area of Turbat and now in a recent explosion in Sibi on Sunday morning at least four people were killed and 18 others wounded. Burney demanded arrest of the patrons of terrorists.

House of tribesman blown up in Mohmand Agency
By our correspondent
HANGU: Unidentified persons blew up the house of a tribesman in the Orakzai Agency, official sources said on Sunday.The sources said that unidentified persons had planted explosives outside the house of Nabiullah in Bulandkhel area in the Orakzai Agency which went off at midnight. The sources said that a portion of the house was destroyed in the blast. However, no casualty was reported. Meanwhile, security forces launched a helpline in the district to check the activities of militants and anti-state elements. They asked the people to report any suspicious activities by dialling the toll free helpline 09251125, which would work round-the-clock. The identity of the person providing information would be kept secret.

Enforcing ‘Shariah’ in country top priority: JUI-F leader
By our correspondent
KHAR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) provincial chief Maulana Gul Naseeb Khan on Sunday said that his party would continue efforts for enforcement of Shariah in the country. Speaking at the concluding session of a two-day training convention here at a seminary in Khar, the headquarters of Bajaur Agency, he said the JUI-F was the only party which had a large number of ideological activists and workers. “The JUI-F’s top priority is to implement the Shariah in the country,” he said, adding it would continue peaceful struggle for enforcing then Islamic laws in the country. JUI-F’s provincial general secretary Maulana Shujaul Mulk, former senator Maulana Abdur Rasheed, Maulana Ataul Haq Darvesh, Maulana Muhammad Laiq, Maulana Zakirullah, Maulana Muhammad Sadiq and Qari Fazle Subhan also spoke on the occasion.

Arms seized, one held in Mansehra
By our correspondent
MANSEHRA: The police on Sunday claimed to have arrested a smuggler and seized a cache of arms and ammunition.“We have recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from the houses of two brothers and arrested one of them,” said Zulfiqar Khan Jadoon, the deputy superintendent of police, while addressing a press conference at his office. Jadoon, who was flanked by head of the City Police Station, said that the raid was carried out on a tip off that arms and ammunition were dumped at a house in the Dub locality of the city. He said Mohammad Gulfam was arrested during action while his brother Mohammad Sultan fled. The DSP said Kalashnikovs, repeater guns, 8-MM rifles, 12-bore pistols and heavy ammunition were also seized. He said both brothers were involved in the smuggling of arms and ammunition to outlaws. “We have also initiated an investigation to ascertain who is backing the arms smugglers to bust the entire network,” said Jadoon. He added that investigation would pave the way for more such raids and seizure of the contraband items.

Cop, PO killed in Karak encounter
By our correspondent
KARAK: A constable and a proclaimed offender (PO) were killed while three policemen, including a station house officer, sustained injuries in an encounter in the limits of Latamber Police Station on Sunday, sources said. Acting on a tip-off, the cops from the Latamber Police Station raided the hideout of a proclaimed offender in Alam Sheri area in Takht-e-Nusrati Tehsil. They said the accused and his accomplices opened fire on the cops when they were asked to surrender. Constable Sher Ayaz was killed on the spot while three other police personnel identified as Rescue 15 district in-charge Zahid Asif, SHO Azhar Ali and Constable Abdullah sustained injuries in the firing. The police retaliated, killing the ringleader of the group Hussain, a resident of Kamali Banda. He was wanted by the police in various cases. The police recovered one Kalashnikov and four hand-grenades after the clash. The injured policemen were taken to the District Headquarters Hospital in Karak.

Two shot dead in Bannu
By our correspondent
BANNU: Two persons were killed and another sustained injuries when two groups exchanged fire over a property dispute in the limits of Cantonment Police Station on Sunday, official sources said. They said there had been a property dispute between two groups headed by Sheharyar Khan and Ijaz in Sokri Karim Khan since long. The two groups exchanged harsh words and resorted to firing in which Sheharyar and his brother Haider Ali were killed. Their rival Muhammad Kashif, son of Ijaz, sustained injuries. The injured was rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital in Bannu where his condition was stated to be stable. The police registered separate cases and started an investigation.