Unidentified motorcycle
borne assailants
shot dead one Zakir
Ali, chief of Shia
Peace Committee,
at Shahu Square
in Mohallah Sangerh
of Hangu District
in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
on March 18, reports
Dawn. The
deceased was appointed
head of Shiite representatives
in 2009 before Muharram
when tension escalated
in the area over
the issue of mourners’
route. Locals said
that terrorists
were targeting prominent
religious leaders
for the last three
years in Hangu to
ignite sectarian
clashes.
Separately, a middle
school was blown
up by unidentified
militants in Sarok
Kallay area of Charsadda
District on March
17. Two rooms and
a veranda of the
school were destroyed
in the blast.
Elsewhere in the same
District, unidentified
militants blew up
a cellular phone
shop in Amirabad
village of Umarzai
area. Further, a
Government school
was blown up in
the Lawangkhel village
in Lakki Marwat
District.
Also, an alleged cadre
of Swat chapter
of Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan (TTP),
Fazal Hadi, stated
to be a central
character in the
flogging incident
of a woman in Swat
in 2009, was arrested
in the evening of
March 19. An official
of Charbagh Police
Station confirmed
that the suspect,
Fazal Hadi, was
arrested by a raiding
team at his ancestral
area Asbarn when
he returned from
Sindh Province,
where he had been
hiding since 2009.
Meanwhile, the students
and teachers of
Islamia College
Peshawar (Chartered
University) staged
a protest demonstration
in Peshawar against
the Government for
its failure to recover
Professor Ajmal
Khan, the abducted
vice-chancellor
of the university.
The protesters also
blocked the busy
University Road
for all kinds of
vehicular traffic.
They threatened
to launch a full-fledged
protest movement
if the vice-chancellor
was not recovered
till March 22. | 
