KOHAT: Unknown gunmen shot dead two young rickshaw drivers in Bahadar Kot and Ghebi Swar areas here on Wednesday in an identical fashion.

The police said both the drivers were shot in the head. One of the victims was identified as Nauman Hanif.

The Rescue 1122 staffers shifted the bodies to the KDA Teaching Hospital, where after autopsy they were handed over to relatives.

Meanwhile, a woman, 21, was killed in Garhi Risaldar area by her brother over a brawl on Wednesday, the police said. Her father reported to the police that he was away when he received a call from home that his daughter had been killed by his son. “I rushed home and found her lying in a pool of blood.” The police said both had a brawl which led to the woman’s murder.

The complainant nominated his son in the murder of his daughter.

MARTYRDOM ANNIVERSARY: The 14th martyrdom anniversary of former Peshawar city police officer DIG Malik Saad was observed with official honour on Wednesday.

He was martyred in a suicide attack in 2007.

DIG Kohat Tayyab Hafeez Cheema, district police officer Javed Iqbal, officials of Malik Saad Memorial Trust, former MPA Dr Zakir Shah and family members laid floral wreaths at the grave and offered Fateha.

INDUSTRIAL ZONE: The Kohat Chamber of Commerce and Industry has denounced exclusion of the oil and gas-rich Kohat and Karak districts from the CPEC industrial and economic zones approved for the 10 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

They said an industrial zone proposed for Kohat on a 2,000 acres of land had been cancelled in 2018.

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, former KCCI president Rasheed Paracha and president of property dealers association Kamran Shah said the Kohat district was producing oil and gas worth billions of rupees monthly.

They said establishment of economic zone could generate thousands of jobs and promote industrialisation in the district. They said a dual carriageway constructed from the Punjab border to Parachinar along the Afghan border could be used to boost exports.

They lamented that the southern KP had always been kept backward. They said the federal government had usurped Rs10 billion oil and gas royalty funds of Kohat, Hangu and Karak.

Published in Dawn, January 28th, 2021