KOHAT: The residents of the Kohat cantonment living around the CIA checkpost on Sunday demanded of the police and army authorities to arrest the gangs involved in robberies and thefts in the area.

They said rampant thefts and robberies were occurring despite patrolling by the security personnel from dawn to dusk.

They said a poor man was deprived of his rickshaw parked outside his house in Street 7, while thieves took away a motorcycle and costly cable of the underground water pump of an under-construction mosque in the Street 9.

Farrukh, a local resident, said two motorcyclists snatched his mobile phone while he was on an evening walk just in front of the DIG’s residence. He said he asked the personnel deputed at the MP checkpost to go after the muggers, but they remained unmoved.

He said when he went to the DIG’s house to lodge a complaint with the guards they told him that they were only responsible for the internal security of the bungalow.

He said he was asked to go to the cantonment police and file an FIR.

Meanwhile, the residents of Gumbat tehsil flayed the police for failing to arrest the robbers and drug addicts.

They said drug addicts stole solar systems, batteries, fans, water pumps and wires, while robbers were free to loot jewellery and other precious items from their homes at gunpoint.

These issues were raised by a group of elders during a meeting with the DSP and SHO at the area police station.

The police and elders decided to formulate an effective strategy to arrest those involved in thefts and robberies.

WATER SUPPLY: Hundreds of residents of Garden Colony in the Kohat city took a sigh of relief on Friday after the Water Supply and Sanitation Company (WSSC) started supplying water to them through tankers after six years.

Azmat Shah, an official of WSSC, said the residents of streets 3 and 4 would get a tanker daily till work on dipping a tubewell near the Liaquat Memorial Hospital was complete. He said the tubewell would help resolve water shortage problem on a permanent basis.

Published in Dawn, July 31st, 2023