Lakki Marwat - Local police on Sunday claimed to have foiled narcotics smuggling bid on Tank-Pezu road and arrested two persons including a woman with hashish.
An official said that DPO Syed Khalid Hamdani alerted Pezu police after he received information about narcotics smuggling from tribal area to Lakki Marwat through Tank. He said that a police party of Shaheed Haibat Ali Khan police station of Darra Pezu town stopped a motorcycle on Tank-Pezu road with two persons including a woman.
The official said that the cops seized a bag from the woman which contained two kilogrammes of hashish. “During initial interrogation, the police learnt that the arrested Nek Bibi and Attaur Rehman are close relatives and belong to Mastikhel Bettani area of frontier tribal region,” he revealed. He said that police also impounded the bike and registered a case against drug traffickers under section 9 of Control Narcotics Substance Act (CNSA) in Shaheed Haibat Ali Khan police station of Darra Pezu town.
Residents of Wanda Bagni demand road construction: Residents of Wanda Bagni have demanded the provincial government to allocate funds for construction of a road from Manjiwala link road to the village. Speaking to The Nation on Sunday, they said that the road was in dilapidated condition, causing problems for them.
“The village is located on plains of Ihsanpur between Kurrum and Gambila rivers and villagers have to face hardships to travel to Lakki city and other localities,” Khalil said.
He said that shingle was spread over the dirt road few years back. Now it was buried under the dirt and mud, he added. “During rains the village remains cut off from rest of the district and local residents have to stay at home,” another villager revealed.
He said that villagers also faced problems while shifting patients to the hospitals in Lakki city on rainy days. They lamented that the members of National and provincial assemblies from the district paid no attention to resolve the problems faced by local residents.
“The MPs will face the music in 2018 general elections for keeping rural localities far from development,” they maintained.
They asked the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chief minister to provide funds for carpeting the road of the village.
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