| NWFP Chief Minister Akram Durrani has “totally blown out of proportion” the arrest of an IB employee with explosives near the CM’s Secretariat and is trying to “create an issue” against Islamabad, a senior government official told Daily Times on Tuesday. The official said the arrest was a misunderstanding. In April, the IB tipped off the authorities in Khyber Agency about a dynamite shipment, which was seized and a sample sent to the civilian intelligence agency office, he said. “The (accused) employee was cleaning tables and he found the sample of dynamite. He thought it was a sweet since it was wrapped in a packet and took a bite out of it but it tasted wrong,” the official said. The employee left the IB regional office, a few dozen metres from the CM’s Secretariat, and threw what he thought was a rotten sweet into a nearby dustbin when police officials arrested him for carrying explosives, he said. A senior police official said that orders from Durrani to raid the IB office and lodge a case against the top IB official for “kidnapping the accused” and “stealing the evidence” were difficult to carry out. “It was literally like the provincial government attacking the federal government and the problem for the Frontier police was that the IB chief in Peshawar is himself a senior police official.” |