LAKKI MARWAT: Karak district police authorities have asked jewellers and goldsmiths to install close circuit television (CCTV) cameras at their shops for surveillance and security purposes.

The directives were issued during a meeting held at the Yaqoob Khan Shaheed police station of Takht Nusrati town on Sunday. The meeting was convened on the instructions of district police officer Shahbaz Elahi in view of the current law and order station.

Police officials told the meeting that installation of CCTV cameras, deployment of private security guards and adherence to other guidelines would help avert any untoward incident.

It is the prime responsibility of businessmen to implement relevant standard operating procedures in letter and spirit for their own and others’ security, the officials said.

They asked the jewellers to keep licensed weapons with them at their outlets.

The officials warned that violators of security guidelines would face legal action.

Meanwhile, Banda Daud Shah DSP Javed Hussain paid a visit to the religious place of Hindu community in the Terri area of Karak to check security arrangements there. He met policemen deployed there and directed them to remain fully alert.

He also met members of Hindu community and discussed with them the security-related matters of their worship place.

BODY FOUND: Body of a teenage boy was found in Naserkherl area of Serai Naurang town of Lakki Marwat on Sunday.

Residents spotted the body and shifted it to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital. The deceased was identified as Rifatullah, 17, resident of Tajori.

Gul Raqeeb Khan, father of the deceased, told police in his preliminary report that he was at home when someone informed him that the body of his son was lying in the fields.

He said he along with relatives reached the hospital and found the body of Rifat lying there in the emergency ward. He said his son was killed with a firearm and that his family had no enmity with anyone.

Police said the body was handed over to family after postmortem.

The Shaheed Asmatullah Khan Khattak police station registered a case against the unknown killer(s) and began an investigation.

Published in Dawn, January 27th, 2025

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