KOHAT, Oct 6: Three children were injured in a grenade attack on a house in Jungle Khel here on Wednesday.

Police said that unidentified terrorists lobbed a hand-grenade on the house of one Mukammal Shah in Gulshanabad area of Jungle Khel. As a result, his grand children including, Muavia, Bushra and Aamna, were injured. They were admitted to the KDA divisional hospital.

Police have registered a case against unknown attackers on the complaint of Mr Shah.

Earlier in the day, Kohat police arrested 28 alleged criminals, including four proclaimed offenders, and recovered weapons during a search operation in various parts of the district.

Police also seized five kalashnikovs, seven rifles, two repeaters, six shotguns, 21 pistols and 1,875 cartridges. An alleged drug peddler, Ghudair Hussain was also arrested from Alizai. WAPDA EMPLOYEES:

The retired employees of Wapda have urged the government to fulfill its promise of 25 per cent increase in their medical allowance made in the budget speech four months ago.

Representatives of Wapda employees from grade 1-5 told this correspondent that the government had announced 25 per cent increase in the medical allowance of all retired employees, but no notification had so far been issued in this regard.

They said that whenever they submitted their medical claim to the office of the executive officer they were told that there were no proper orders in this regard from the federal government.

They appealed to the prime minister and Wapda chairman Shakeel Durrani to order payment of medical allowance to the retired employees.

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