HARIPUR, May 30: Four passengers, including two women of a family, were killed and two others were injured when a truck rammed into a Suzuki pick-up near Panian village on Grand Trunk Road here on Sunday morning.

Police said family members of Mohammad Aslam, resident of Jabbi village, were travelling in a Suzuki pick-up (AJKR-4115) to their village after attending a child patient at a local hospital it collided head on with a truck at Bakka More some six kms from here, coming from the direction of Hasan Abdal.

Those killed were Mehfooz Jan, wife of Mohammad Aslam, Nasim Akhtar, wife of Mohammad Javed and Mohammad Imran, son of Ahmad Din on the spot and injuring three others seriously.

The bodies and injured were removed to DHQ Hospital, Haripur, from where the critically injured Mohammad Javed, Mohammad Sajid and Mohammad Siddique were shifted to Ayub Medical Complex Abbottabad. Mohammad Siddique later succumbed to his injuries at AMC.

BOY KILLED: In another road accident a minor boy was crushed to death by a recklessly driven rickshaw # HR 7074 near Central Jail Chowk. The victim was later identified as Shah Zeb Khan, 4, son of Naheed Khan.

PML-N: Provincial PML-N president Sahibzada Pir Sabir Shah has said cooperation of the alliances of political opportunists could not protect the autocratic and undemocratic rule of Gen Musharraf any more as the days of his government are numbered.

He was speaking to newsmen at his office in Haripur. Pir Sabir said that although the president had skillfully gathered political parties, but this move was bound to fail.

They should not be so happy over the deportation of Shahbaz Sharif as, he said, violation of the Supreme Court judgment on the party of rulers would prove a nail in the government's coffin. Describing present rulers as a threat to the sovereignty of Pakistan, Sabir Shah said their bid to please the US had endangered the very roots of the country.