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Farmers cultivate poppy in Hattar
HARIPUR, April 23: In
a clear violation of the ban on poppy crop,
farmers in Hattar area have cultivated the crop at
about three acres of land, a team of local newsmen
observed here on Tuesday.
The Hattar police, however, registered a case
against two growers under section 5 of CNSA and
arrested them on Wednesday.
The local newsmen, on receiving reports, when
visited the wheat crop fields on Baseera road
situated at a distance of about one kilometre to
the east of Dohrian stop Hattar on the main Hattar
Taxila road, found the poppy crop in full bloom. A
close look of the reaped plants, suggested that it
was cut hardly a couple of days back and growers
were reportedly awaiting to dispose it of soon.
It was alleged that the land actually was owned by
a local influential man who was also the Nazim of
Hattar Union Council. However, the Nazim's family
sources said that the owner had contracted the
land on lease to two tillers from Dargai and
Chakdara.
The tillers, the sources said, had been growing
poppy on this particular piece of land for the
last few seasons. The SHO Hattar police station,
when contacted for comments, expressed his
ignorance about the cultivation of the poppy in
his area.
However, according to police record collected from
DPO office, Haripur, a case was registered against
two men - Sher Zameen, son of Shakay, a resident
of Dargai, and Alam Zeb Khan, son of Salarzai, a
resident of Chakdara, at present settled in Hattar
area, under Section 5 of the CNSA on Feb 21, 2004,
for growing poppy at 10 marla area and they were
arrested on April 21.
When contacted the DPO Haripur, Abdullah Khan,
told Dawn that the poppy growing was not in the
knowledge of police because neither the halqa
patwari nor intelligence agencies had informed him
about it. He asserted the area people had
destroyed the crop voluntarily and the accused had
been arrested.
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Pakissan.com; Advisory Point
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