KOHAT: The police and traffic wardens impounded 400 motorcycles on the first day of a crackdown on non-registered bikes on Wednesday to ensure security during Muharram.

The operations were carried out in the city, its outskirts and the tribal subdivision of Darra Adamkhel and Jawaki.

District police officer Sohail Khalid said that unregistered motorcycles could be used in terror activities.

Separately, the tehsil municipal administration and the police on Wednesday started repairing the faulty streetlights and installing CCTV cameras along the routes of the Muharram processions.

The streetlights are being repaired on the directives of tehsil municipal officer Mohammad Shoeb, while the CCTV cameras are being installed on the instructions of district police officer Sohail Khalid to enable the command and control room to effectively monitor the activities on the routes of the processions.

MAGAZINE LAUNCHED: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan announced Rs90 million grant for construction of an auditorium at the Hangu police training college on the occasion of launch of a literary magazine ‘Sword and Pen’ on Wednesday.

A press statement issued here said the magazine contained messages from the chief minister, Inspector General of Police Moazzam Ja Ansari and Director General, Federal Investigation Agency, Dr Sanaullah Abbasi.

It contains topics on social, traditional, literary, professional and training subjects.

The statement said the chief minister, the police chief and the DG FIA lauded the role of the college in producing best trained lots of police officers.

The college administration has asked the educationists and police officers to send their pieces for the next edition of the magazine. The magazine’s copies could be obtained from the library of the college on payment.

Published in Dawn, August 12th, 2021