[1][2][3] The town is notorious for popularizing a method if of extortion wherein bandits and kidnappers lure people by befriending them over the phone using a female voice.
Most famous among the victims was Muhammad Ramzan, the Additional Home Secretary of Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa.
Ramzan's family received a call demanding a hefty ransom in exchange for his return.
Police raided a location in Ghokti, where they found Ramzan and three individuals involved with the so-called "honey pot" scheme.
[6] A young man named Azhar a.k.a Lalo/ Laly son of Allah wadhaio Kosh invented this type of kidnapping which expanded to Sindh, Balochistan, and Punjab.