SUKKUR: A tribal chieftain was booked along with his 19 followers on Monday for terrorising people by resorting to heavy firing to celebrate his release from a Balochistan jail.

The Kashmore police said that they had booked the Nandwani community chieftain, Hamzo Khan, and “19 members of the Kokari gang” in a terrorism case who terrorised people and spread fear and panic in Hazoor Bakhsh Nandwani village to celebrate his release.

Officials at the Jamalpur police station said that the entire village kept reverberating with deafening sound of firing with small and heavy weapons on the arrival of Hamzo Nandwani. The case was, however, registered at the Karampur police station on the complaint of ASI Abdul Rasheed Bozdar on behalf of the state.

The case was registered under Sections 120B, 337h2 and 35, of the Pakistan Penal Code and Section 6/7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act “for creating harassment and fear in the area at the behest of their chieftain Hamzo Khan Nandwani”.

Published in Dawn, October 29th, 2024