The Special Branch of district police Lower Dir has identified as many as 92 miscreants who were involved in vandalism in disguise of protests on May 9 in the district.
According to a report available with this agency, these miscreants were directly involved in damaging the public and private property on the day. The report recommended strong legal action against them.
Meanwhile, another report of the Peshawar police disclosed that anti-social elements in the guise of protests on May 9 and 10, looted public and private properties besides causing damage worth millions of rupees to government offices and army check posts in the city.
An official report regarding the losses in the provincial capital revealed that the miscreants vandalized public and private properties in the Bacha Khan Chowk and Firdous Chowk areas and set fire to offices of Radio Peshawar and Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) located in a four-storey building. Moreover, five motorbikes, two vehicles and a cattle market were attacked and 20 heads of cattle were also burnt alive.
Similarly, the saboteurs also destroyed the installations of sui gas and PTCL, private vehicles on the way and looted ATMs of different banks and arms shops thus causing loss of millions of rupees, it said, adding that they also vandalized the offices of Election Commission and Khyber Bank besides attacking the check posts of Army near Gora Qabristan and on Shami road.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 18th, 2023.
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