KOHAT: The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has distributed pamphlets in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu district, warning women to stay away from participating in the by-election; otherwise they will be kidnapped and killed.
The by-election is being held today (Thursday) for one seat of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, PF-42 Hangu-1.
Meanwhile, the deputy inspector general of police, Kohat region, has said that army has been deployed in the area because a militant attack cannot be ruled out during polling in Hangu.
In a statement issued here on Wednesday, Ishtiaq Marwat, the DIG, said that out of 89 polling stations in Hangu 51 were declared very sensitive where personnel of police, Frontier Constabulary and army had been deployed.
He said the district had been divided into 15 units according to level of their sensitivity.
He said fool-proof arrangements had been made for the by-poll.
