NOWSHERA/CHARSADDA, Dec 4: A local leader of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl was shot dead by unidentified motorcyclists in Nowshera on Tuesday.
Police said that Maulana Hafiz Mir Wali Khan was a teacher at government high school Koterpan and also the administrator of a seminary, Tajdeedul Quran. He was going to the seminary after performing duty at school when the motorcyclists stopped him and opened firing on him. He was injured seriously.
Police said that the victim was being taken to district headquarters hospital but he succumbed to his injuries. A large number of local people and JUI-F workers reached the hospital, where postmortem of the deceased was carried out.
The relatives of the deceased and JUI-F activists placed his body on road and held a protest demonstration. The protest caused suspension of traffic on Nowshera-Mardan Road.
JUI-F district chief Qari Mohammad Aslam and Mufti Hakem Ali addressed the protesters and condemned the killing of Maulana Mir Wali Khan. They demanded of the government to arrest his killers immediately.
The protesters dispersed when senior police officers assured them that the killers would be traced soon.
Meanwhile, unidentified persons blew up two power pylons in Khairabd area of Nowshera on Tuesday.
Police said that four remote controlled bombs were planted at the pylons. Three of the bombs exploded that destroyed two power pylons, they added.
They said that the fourth unexploded bomb was defused by bomb disposal squad.
In Charsadda, four power pylons were blown up near Abdul Wali Khan Sports Complex in Kala Dher while bomb disposal squad defused another five-kilogram explosive device in the area.
The bomb disposal squad officials said that one kilogram explosive device was planted at each of the four pylons. They said that four power pylons were damaged when the explosive devices went off.
Police reached the area soon after the blasts and recovered another five-kilogram remote controlled bomb, planted to target law enforcers. The bomb disposal squad defused the bomb safely.
Police launched a search operation in the area after the incident. However, no arrest was made.
