LANDI KOTAL, Sept 15: A conductor of a Nato container was injured when militants opened firing on his vehicle in Jamrud tehsil in Khyber Agency on Saturday.
Officials said that a container, supplying goods to Nato forces in Afghanistan, was attacked by militants in Ghareeza area on Peshawar-Torkham Road. Haleem Khan, the conductor of the vehicle, was injured in the attack. He was shifted to a local hospital for treatment. The vehicle was allowed to travel to Afghanistan after the incident.
Meanwhile, Khasadar Force seized drugs and ammunition from a car and arrested two persons in Jamrud.
Officials said that khasadars intercepted a car coming from Shahkas area at Takhta Beg checkpost. They recovered 20 kilograms of hashish, six kilograms of opium and three hundred rounds of Kalashnikov from the hidden cavities of the car.
The driver identified as Tahir and his friend Mehraban Shah were also taken into custody.
Also, security forces picked up a mentally retarded person from a hospital in Peshawar for questioning after he was critically wounded in firing near a security checkpost in Bara on Friday evening.
Local sources said 30-year-old Naik Mohammad, a resident of Sipah, was injured when security forces opened firing on him after he did not responded to the warning calls near Qambarabad checkpost.
He was shifted to Hayatabad Medical Complex in a critical condition from where security forces picked him up for questioning as he reportedly told the forces after the incident that he was a close relative of Mangal Bagh, head of banned militant group Lashkar-i-Islam.
Naik Mohammad was brought to the Levies centre in Shahkas on Friday night from where he was shifted to Shahkas Fort.
Security officials then sent him to Fort Salop on Saturday morning where forces refused to take him and sent him back to the Levies centre. In the meanwhile, political administration also tried its best to assure the security forces that Naik Mohammad was mentally retarded and should be released for treatment as his condition was deteriorating.
At last he was shifted to the offices of political administration in Bara Bazaar where Khasadar Force was asked to wait for a final approval of a senior official of Mehsud Scouts for his release. Warmaz Khel, father of the injured person, was also detained by the forces.
Meanwhile, Christian community in Khyber Agency has strongly condemned screening of a blasphemous film in the United States and appealed to the US government to take stern action against the filmmaker.
In a statement, Arshad Masih, a leader of Chairman community in Fata, said that no one should be allowed to desecrate other religions and religious personalities.
“We urge the US government and President Obama to investigate the issue and take stern action against all those, who were involved in such heinous crime,” he said.
Meanwhile, shopkeepers in Landi Kotal observed a token strike by pulling down their shutters for three hours to protest the blasphemous film. The token protest was organised by Landi Kotal chapter of Jamaat-i-Islami.
