Landikotal residents concerned at robberies
August 3, 2021
LANDIKOTAL: Activists of Khyber Siyasi Ittehad said on Monday that police had failed to provide security and safety to the residents and their businesses in the area.
The association held a meeting at the residence of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muqtadar Shah where leaders of various political parties were present. The meeting participants asked police authorities to take notice of frequent robberies in Landikotal bazaar and homes.
The political leaders including Awami National Party district president Shah Hussain Shinwari asked the Khyber district police officer to issue strict directives to the Landikotal police to arrest those involved in robberies at shops and homes.
July 2, 2021
LANDIKOTAL: Protest of local residents against death of five members of the same family in an explosion in Landikotal ended on the third day on Thursday as the government accepted their demands.
Hundreds of residents, Khyber Siyasi Etihad activists, civil society members and relatives of the martyred family members had blocked the Pak-Afghan Highway at Charwazgay Chowk for the last three days. They were protesting against the death of innocent children and a woman in a blast that took place inside a home in Landikotal.
The protesters had also set up a camp to press the authorities to accept their genuine demands including repairing the home where the blast occurred, job to the heir of martyrs and compensation amount for the family of the victims.
July 2, 2021
LANDIKOTAL: Protest of local residents against deaths of five members of the same family in an explosion in Landikotal ended on the third day on Thursday as the government accepted their demands.
Hundreds of residents, Khyber Siyasi Etihad activists, civil society members and relatives of the martyred family members had blocked the Pak-Afghan Highway at Charwazgay Chowk for the last three days. They were protesting against the death of innocent children and a woman in a blast that took place inside a home in Landikotal.
The protesters had also set up a camp to press the authorities to accept their genuine demands including repairing of the home where the blast occurred, job to the heir of martyrs and compensation amount for the victim family.
KHYBER: Zakhakhel and Shinwari tribesmen ended protest on Wednesday after the administration promised registration of FIR over Tuesday blast in Landi Kotal and payment of adequate compensation to families of the victims.
Tribesmen blocked the road leading to the Torkham border in Charwazgai area over the killing of four children and a woman in the explosion of an abandoned mortar shell inside their house.
Addressing protesters, Shah Hussain Shinwari, the Awami National Party president for Khyber, said it was not an accidental blast as the mortar shell was left undetonated by the security personnel in the nearby detonation place and was later mistakenly picked up by children.
LANDIKOTAL: Torkham labour union and Tribal Youth Forum jointly staged a sit-in at Landikotal bazaar against the suspension of pedestrian movement from and to Afghanistan via the Afghan border.The.