SHANGLA: District police officer Imran Khan on Tuesday said that the government had announced Rs5.2 million head money for a terrorist from Kamach area in Martung tehsil over his involvement in the recent attacks on police checkposts.

Terrorist Bakhtiar Shah, affiliated with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, has been in hiding and reluctant to surrender, according to the DPO in a statement.

He said the wanted terrorist had carried out several terrorist attacks on police in various parts of the district leaving policemen dead and injured.

The DPO said Bakhtiar Shah had gone to Afghanistan a decade ago, returned after the Afghan Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and began terrorist activities while reorganising the TTP’s local chapter. He said the money would be paid to anyone disclosing the terrorist’s hideouts to police.

Police sources said several local TTP commanders, who left the country during a military operation in 2008-12, returned to Shangla after the Taliban regained rule in Afghanistan.

They said over a dozen terrorist attacks had been carried out by terrorists, mostly on police checkposts in Shangla, in recent months, martyring fourpersonnel and injuring several.

SNOW REMOVED: The Shangla administration on Tuesday claimed to have cleared snow from all roads in the district.

Deputy commissioner Mohammad Fawad Khan told reporters that Bisham-Swat Road, Alpuri-Puran Road, Karora-Ajmeer Road, Karora-Chakesar Road and Martung Road and Puran-Buner Road had been opened to traffic after the removal of snow.

Meanwhile, the Chakesar administration, with the collaboration of the livestock department, on Tuesday held a free veterinary medical camp in the remote Sarkool area of the tehsil.

Doctors from the livestock department checked animalsand administered vaccines, minerals and deworming pills to them to protect them from viral diseases.

Also in the day, the Pakistan Peoples Party announced its cabinet for the Puran tehsil.

PPP Shangla president Hamid Iqbal Khan said Sultan Khan of Sanila had been made tehsil president and Farooq Khan of Chawga the general secretary.— Correspondent