Security
Panjgur: Two Pakistani nationals were killed and four sustained injuries after Iranian border guards opened fire when they were trying to illegally cross the Pak-Iran border along the Prom area of Balochistan`s Panjgur district. Dawn , Radio TNN
RAWALPINDI: The inspector general of police (IGP) Punjab on Saturday ordered an inquiry into the alleged involvement of six police of ficers in kidnapping for ransom. Dawn
KOHAT: A quick response force has been set up in the lower Orakzai subdivision on the directives of the deputy commissioner for ensuring peace and stamping out terrorism. Dawn
GHALLANAI: Tribal elders in Mohmand tribal district asked the district administration to release seven members of peace lashkar who were arrested on charge of raising lashkar and publically executing two persons who were involved in the murder of a local man. Radio TNN
PESHAWAR: The whereabouts of a senior police officer from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa remain shrouded in mystery as apparently no efforts are being made to recover him safely. Superintendent of Police (SP) Rural Peshawar, Tahir Khan Dawar went missing in Islamabad on October 26. There has been no clue about his whereabouts. While his family and friends are demanding his safe recovery, nothing has been heard about him from the senior officials of the police force. The News
Implementation of FATA Reforms
PESHAWAR: It was observed during a consultative meeting conveyed by the Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) in Peshawar that the delay in implementation of FATA merger with KP has worried pro-merger elements particularly youth who have demanded of the PTI government to speed up the process of tribal region integration into the mainstream. The FATA Task Force made by the incumbent government should be abolished as some of its members are strongly opposed to the idea of FATA merger with KP and thus they are creating hurdles to disturb the process of mainstreaming the region. Radio TNN
Rehabilitation of IDPs
BARA: Khidmat-e-Khalq Committee Speah president Sheikh Gul along with other members of the committee and tribal elders said at a press conference at Bara Press Club that the people of Sepah tribe of Tirah valley in Khyber tribal district, who were affected by militancy and military operations, have not received any compensation package from the government and they are living in damaged houses in cold weather. The affectees of Tirah should be given six-month ration, cash and tents so that they could rebuild their houses. Radio TNN