BAJAUR: Merchants of Khar Bazaar on Sunday demonstrated towards the murder of a shopkeeper on Saturday, and demanded the early arrest of his killers.
Social and political activists additionally attended the protest held on the foremost Chowk.
The protesters, who blocked the street for about an hour, chanted slogans towards the police for failing to make sure safety of merchants.
Samiullah was killed by unknown gunmen in Khar Bazaar on Saturday.
Bajaur Chamber of Commerce and Trade president Haji Lali Shah, Khar merchants’ affiliation president Haji Ameer Rahman, PML-N chief Anwarul Haq, Javid Khan and Sahib Rahman of Jamaat-i-Islami additionally spoke.
Demand early arrest of killers
The protesters described the broad daylight homicide within the crowded bazaar a failure of the police to make sure security and safety of merchants and consumers in the primary commerce centre of Bajaur.
They famous this was not the one incident of killing within the Khar Bazaar as a number of such incidents had occurred up to now.
The audio system regretted that the police had but to make any arrest.
They demanded an improved safety atmosphere in Khar and different main bazaars of the district. Additionally they requested the native police chief to make sure the early arrest of these concerned within the homicide of Samiullah, who was killed by unknown assailants in entrance of his store.
PROTEST: Rejecting the proposed plan of imposing taxes in Malakand division, JI native leaders on Sunday introduced to attend the deliberate sit-in on the Swat Motorway toll plaza on June 2.
Addressing a information convention, JI Bajaur deputy chief Qari Abdul Majeed, basic secretary Mohammad Hameed, Farmanullah, Abdul Manan, Haji Dawalat Khan and others stated that like remainder of Malakand division and tribal districts, the folks of Bajaur had additionally rejected the federal authorities’s plan of imposing taxes within the area.
They stated there was no justification of imposing taxes in Malakand division and tribal districts as these areas have been probably the most backward, the place most individuals have been residing an abject life.
The Jamaat leaders stated Malakand division and tribal districts have been badly affected by militancy and warfare on terrorism.
They stated the Malakand and tribal districts ought to be given aid just like the folks of Azad Kashmir and Gligit-Baltistan.
The JI leaders requested the provincial authorities, the native leaders of PML-N, PPP and PTI to play their function to cease the federal authorities from imposing taxes in Malakand division.
The Jamaat leaders stated numerous social gathering activists would take part within the deliberate sit-in.
Revealed in Daybreak, Might twenty seventh, 2024