LAKKI MARWAT: A cleric was shot dead for preparing amulets for women during a jirga in the Darra Pezu town here on Sunday.
Police said that a reconciliatory jirga had been convened at the residence of a former nazim to patch up a dispute between Maulvi Waliullah, a resident of Sharbikhel, Lakki Marwat and settled in Akora Khattak, Nowshera, and Mohammad Sufyian of Dera Ismail Khan district.
‘During the Jirga, Waliullah and Sufyian engaged in heated arguments, leading the latter to open fire on the former with a pistol, they said.
The police said that Maulvi Waliullah sustained critical injuries and died while being shifted to a hospital in DI Khan. The alleged killer escaped the spot.
Separately, an eighteen-year-old boy was killed by his cousins in the Zangikhel area here on Sunday.
Police said that Abdul Rehman and Adnan Khan were returning to their homes from fields when their cousins, including Saifur Rehman, Attiqur Rehman and Attaur Rehman, appeared on the scene and showered them with bullets.
They said that the attack left Adnan dead on the spot, while the killers fled the scene.
Police said that they had launched an investigation after registering cases against the alleged killers under the relevant sections of law.