LAKKI MARWAT: A teenage boy was kidnapped for ransom in Wanda Banochi area here on Thursday.

Police said that Mohammad Jamshed Khan, 18, had gone to fields near the village to graze his cattle when his rivals came there and took him away with them. They said that the family of the kidnapped boy and the abductors had a murder enmity.

Saeed Akhtar told police that his son Jamshed told him by mobile phone that Kiramat and his sons Waseem Khan, Waqas and Rooman kidnapped him. He said that his son told him to arrange Rs300,000 as demanded by kidnappers for his release.

Meanwhile, a young man was killed over old enmity by his rivals in front of his mother in Tap Takhtikhel area of Lakki Marwat on Thursday.

Police said that Yaseen Bibi and his sons Wajeehullah and Zafrullah were going to fields to bring fodder when their armed rivals Ikramullah and Abdul Sattar opened firing on them. They said that Wajeehullah was killed in the attack.

Also, a man was injured when a motorcar fell into a roadside ravine after being hit by a truck near Peerwala More on Lakki-Darra Tang road. The injured was identified as Luqman Khan, a resident of Dera Ismail Khan.

Separately, four people were injured when two motorcars collided near Kharoba Bridge on Indus Highway in Tajazai area. They were identified as Farmanullah, Hayatullah, Insafullah and Ikramullah.

WORKSHOP: Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Bannu will arrange a workshop for officials of the education department hired for conduct of secondary school certificate examinations, commencing from April 8.

An official said that four sessions of the workshop would be held for Lakki Marwat, Bannu and North Waziristan DEOs, inspectors of monitoring teams, superintendents and deputy superintendents and resident inspectors of examination centres at Auditorium Hall of the educational board on April 5.

Deputy Commissioner Zeeshan Abdullah has banned sale and purchase of pocket size guides and other helping material at bookshops near examination centres. He has also banned operation of photocopier machines in a radius of 300 metres of examination halls.

Published in Dawn, April 4th, 2025