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200 booked for damaging checkpost in Kohat
[Dawn] Police registered cases against more than 200 protesters on Tuesday for blocking Hangu road at Muhammadzai area and damaging government property.The protest was staged by students on Monday after arrest of a teacher of government high school in a terrorism case. The protesting students, who were joined by residents of the area, had blocked Kohat-Hangu road five hours and burnt a police checkpost. The protesters had damaged armoured personnel carrier of police and smashed windscreen of vehicles. They also burnt the furniture of an under construction checkpost at Zawaki Banda and took away its doors and windows. A policeman was also injured in the incident. The teacher was locked away for allegedly running a parallel policing system and attacking the alleged illegal occupants, belonging to Bezote tribe of adjacent  Orakzai Agency... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... , of the village's land. The highway, which was closed soon after the arrest of the teacher at 8am, was opened by the protesters after five hours following successful negotiations between the police and elders of the area. The SHO of Cantt cop shoppe, Aqeeq Hussain, told Dawn that the locked away teacher, Azmat, was a runaway and his name was present in the list of wanted people. He had been booked under sections 324,395,452,427, 148 and 149 of Pakistain Panel Code, registered on December 10, 2011.
Posted by: Fred 2012-02-09 |
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