PESHAWAR:

IGP Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (Okay-P) Moazam Jah Ansari has described as baseless the affect that militancy has discovered a company foothold within the province.

He stated that the Okay-P has been within the grip of terrorism for the previous two decades and the struggle remains to be ongoing. Nevertheless, the location isn’t crucial, he wired.

“We are able to stand any rising risk,” he stated, including that the police are investigating the incident during which PTI MPA Liaqat Ali used to be attacked and several other suspects were arrested.

He added that geo-fencing of the realm were finished.

About the a lot mentioned Swat incident, IGP stated that they’ve details about the motion of militants in Swat’s mountains.

“Militants had been stated to have reached Swat from Afghanistan following which police used to be dispatched to the realm to make sure the topic with different legislation enforcement companies and so they got here into touch with the militants,” he stated, including that an change of fireplace happened between militants and police during which a police officer used to be somewhat injured.

“Several terrorists had been additionally injured,” he famous.

The IGP stated that there used to be no ordinary state of affairs in Okay-P’s tribal districts and the morale of police used to be top because it has accomplished nice luck towards terrorists.

Attack at police

An assistant sub-inspector of police used to be killed when unidentified terrorists opened fireplace at him at the outskirts of Peshawar final evening.

Police stated that ASI Rekhmeen Khan of Regi police station used to be on a regimen patrol within the space in a police cell van when the car used to be ambushed by way of armed males.

“The ASI used to be left critically injured who used to be rushed to sanatorium however he had succumbed to his accidents prior to achieving the well being facility,” stated the professional.

A big contingent of police reached the spot and began a door to door seek operation all through which a number of folks had been rounded up on suspicion.

An investigation workforce has additionally been shaped to appear into the case from all sides.

The final rites of the slain policeman had been introduced at Malik Saad Shaheed Police Lines with complete guard of honour.

Talking to media males CCPO Peshawar Ijaz Khan stated that quickly the culprits at the back of the assault can be discovered and delivered to justice.

Later the coffin of the martyred policeman used to be despatched to his ancestral village in Jamrud for burial.

It could also be recalled that simply two days prior to the Peshawar assault a police constable used to be shot useless in North Waziristan tribal district.

Constable Ikramullah used to be on his approach house from bazaar when masked males attacked him. He died at the spot.

Police took the frame into custody and despatched it for post-mortem.

The goal killing happened at a time when the Otmanzai extended family has been protesting towards such assaults for the previous one month.

They are challenging strict measures and crackdown towards the ones liable for the legislation and order state of affairs within the district.

These clans held a number of rounds of negotiations with the district management however all in useless.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 12^th, 2022.