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Two shot dead in Lakki Marwat incidents

By Our Correspondent 2015-11-09
LAKKI MARWAT: A land dispute and an old enmity claimed two lives in Lakki and Naurang towns here on Sunday.

The first incident occurred in Wanda Dolan village in the limits of Lakki Marwat police station, where a man was shot dead over a land dispute. Hanifullah told police that Hashim Khan, Mir Kalam and Rashid Khan killed his father, Mashal Khan, and managed to escape.

He said his family had a land dispute with the accused people.

“After registration of a case, a police raiding party recovered ammunition from the house of Hashim Khan,” said a police official.

He added that they were making efforts to arrest the people involved in the murder case.

In another incident occurred in Naurang city, a man idenentified as Nazirullah was shot dead allegedly by Obaidullah over a blood feud. The alleged killer managed to escape the area after committing the crime.

The officials of Shaheed Asmatullah Khan Khattak police registered a case.

Meanwhile, the district livestock department began distributing free seeds to the farmers under the provincial government’s Insaf Food Security Programme, and to sensitise local residents especially growers to the use the seeds for only sowing purpose.

“Under the drive the livestock staffers have displayed banners at public places besides they are distributing leaflets, stickers and pamphlets to highlight the useful use of free seeds so to change the lot of poor farmers,” district director livestock Dr Naseemullah Wazir said on Sunday.

Flanked by in charge veterinary health unit, Dr Mubarak, he told journalists that the department also transmitted messages through FM radio with the aim to educate farmers not to use free wheat seeds for other purposes except sowing.

Mr Naseem said being poisonous the free seeds were not fit for human and cattle consumption. He said the provision of free seeds would enable the farmers to get good crops and increase yields. He also said that the programme would help eliminate poverty and make growers prosperous.