National
April 28, 2021
WANA: For the first time after the merger of erstwhile Fata into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the police arrested 16 prominent elders and Maliks in the ongoing crackdown launched against the Ahmadzai Wazir tribes and put in the lock-up for torching an ambulance and firing on a police party in South Waziristan tribal district on Tuesday.
District Police Officer Shaukat Ali said that the crackdown was going on and the remaining accused would be arrested soon.
He claimed that the maliks and elders were also raising lashkar to torch the home of station house officer of Azam Warsak Police Station, as he had registered cases against them for setting an official ambulance on fire and firing on a police party.