KOHAT: Police of five circles here have arrested 14 proclaimed offenders and 84 peddlers, seizing a big quantity of arms and drugs in various operations during the fortnight.

A statement issued from the office of district police officer Mohammad Suleman said on Thursday that the intelligence-based operations and sudden raids were carried out in Lachi, Saddar, Darra Adamkhel, headquarters and city circles.

Five facilitators of the proclaimed offenders were also arrested from their hideouts. The police also arrested 1,190 suspects during the operations.

It said that the operations would continue to effectively combat crime and ensure complete peace.

The seizure includes 12 Kalashnikovs, two kalakovs, three 12-bore repeaters, two rifles, 13 shotguns, 144 pistols, 1,500 cartridges and 200 chargers besides 70 kilograms of hashish, 36 grams of ice drug and 4.5 kilogrammes of heroin.

RAIL TIMINGS: Pakistan Railways has changed the timings of departure of the railcar from Kohat to Rawalpindi from April 15 (today).

A public message issued here on Thursday said that the express railcar would now leave Kohat at 7.15am instead of 7.30am and depart from Rawalpindi at 3.30pm.

SECURITY LIGHTS: Togh Bala union council chairman Haji Naveed Shah and social activist Mohammad Inaam on Thursday called on the principal of Cadet College Kohat and apprised him about the risk due to removal of the security lights at the nearby police checkpost during the night on Rawalpindi highway.

They informed the principal that there was a prevailing concern among the people regarding danger to their life and property.

They said the police checked the vehicles and their movements in parts of the union council for security of the college and the area. They apprehended that the police could not check them properly due to darkness.

They said that employment in the college was the first right of the local people to which the principal reiterated that educated people of the area would be preferred for jobs in the college. He also assured them that the lights would be restored.

Published in Dawn, April 15th, 2022