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India-Pakistan
Death toll in Khyber district suicide attack rises to four
2023-07-21
[GEO.TV] The corpse count from the suicide kaboom in the Bara Bazar area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Khyber district rose to four after two more maimed cops gave up the ghost, police said Thursday.

A policeman was martyred and 10 others were maimed after a terrorist went kaboom! when the police intercepted him and his accomplice while entering the tehsil compound — which houses the Bara Police Station, government offices, and a cell of the counter-terrorism department (CTD).

However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
more casualties were reported later, pushing the corpse count up.

KP Inspector General Akhtar Hayat confirmed that the attack was led by two murderous Moslems who entered the compound from the main and rear gates. Both of the bad boyz were potted in the attack.

Sharing updates on the matter, police said that a section of the CTD's cell caved in after the earth-shattering kaboom. Rescue and search operation was underway while the bomb disposal squad and CTD teams were present at the scene of the crime.

Meanwhile,
...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck slipped the habañero into the roasted jalapeño...
Rescue 1122 officials said 10 coppers had been shifted to different hospitals for treatment.

Earlier, the Hayatabad Medical Complex administration said that a body and four injured — including three cops — were brought to the medical facility.

Some of the injured were shifted to District Headquarters Hospital Dogra Khyber Agency
... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though...
as well.

Initially, the police said that smoke was seen rising from the site of the earth-shattering kaboom. They said that heavy firing was also reported after the earth-shattering kaboom.

The KP police suffered another attack last night when two cops were martyred, and two others were maimed in a firing incident in the Regi area of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
Police said that unidentified gunnies opened fire on the cops at the entry checkpoint near Regi Model Town Police Station and fled. The injured cops were shifted to Khyber Teaching Hospital for treatment.

The martyred were identified as Head Constable Wajid and driver Farman.
Related:
Khyber district: 2023-07-01 Security forces gun down six terrorists in Tank, N Waziristan: ISPR
Khyber district: 2023-04-27 2 soldiers martyred in exchange of fire with terrorists in KP’s Khyber: ISPR
Khyber district: 2023-01-29 Security forces 'bust suicide bombing network' in KP
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India-Pakistan
Terror-stricken Sikh community weary of its safety
2023-04-05
Ferget it, bub — it’s Pakistan.
[Dawn] While relatives and well wishers of slain Diyal Singh mourned his assassination, many of them said they now felt more insecure than before.

Herjeet Singh, a young imitation jewellery dealer in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
’s Karkhano market told Dawn that his entire community was ’heart broken’ and terrorised by the killing of Diyal Singh whom he described as a ’harmless soul’.

He said that minority community and especially Sikhs were feeling very insecure in Peshawar and surrounding localities as a minority person was killed after every seven or eight months with the security agencies failing to provide them much needed protection.

Harjeet Singh’s family had migrated to Peshawar from Bara some 17 years back when Bara was under effective control of the proscribed Lashkar-e-Islam
...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It was headed by a former bus driver and eventually folded into the TTP...
, led by Mangal Bagh
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency...
He said that Diyal Singh had four children, including three sons and a daughter and he was the only breadwinner for his family.

"Owing to his poor financial status, our community would hire him as watchman during festive occasions so that he could earn some extra money apart from his small herbal shop," he said.

Malak Balendar Singh, a front man for Sikh community in Bara told Dawn that the grandfather of the dear departed migrated from Tirah some three decades back and settled down in Kalanga, Akkakhel area of Bara.

He said that Diyal Singh was running his herbal shop in Bhatta Thal locality, adjacent to Bara Bazaar but had to shift to Muhallah Jogan Shah in Peshawar in May last year when two of his close relatives Ranjeet Singh and Kulgeet Singh were killed by unidentified button men.

He said the dear departed was very concerned about the safety of his family and had thus shifted to Peshawar with the hope that he would be safe while living close to other Sikh families in Mohallah Jogan Shah.

Jaspal Singh, another Sikh trader in Karkhano market, told Dawn that while majority of the Sikh families had long shifted to either Peshawar or other cities of the country, 29 Sikh shopkeepers were still running their small businesses in Bara while another 19 had their shops in Bhatta Thal market.

He said none of these Sikh shopkeepers had residences in Bara or any other locality of Khyber as they come back to Peshawar in the evening.

"Our relationship with the local community is very cordial and friendly but still we feel insecure as a number of the minority community members had fallen victims to assassination in recent past," he explained.

He said hundreds of Sikh families previously residing in Tirah valley for over a century had now deserted their homes and had migrated to other comparatively safer places.

He, however, added that Peshawar too had of late become ’very threatening’ place for his community and they were now seriously thinking of a ’mass migration’ to Punjab.
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India-Pakistan
The Resistence Front gets another name as systematic targeting of Kashmiri Pandits continue
2022-05-17
[OneIndia] In the wake of the assassinations in Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
a lesser known group called as the Lashkar-e-Islam
...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It was headed by a former bus driver and eventually folded into the TTP...
has threatened the Kashmir pandits to leave the Union Territory.
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India-Pakistan
Five security men martyred in KP
2022-04-22
[Dawn] At least five law enforcement personnel were martyred in two incidents in Khyber, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
and Nowshera districts on Thursday, while four bad boyz were potted in an intelligence-based operation in Bannu.

Unidentified atta­ckers opened fire on a cop who was on duty at Akori Chowk in Nowshera district.

Three personnel of law enforcement agencies were martyred and a suspected terrorist was killed in a late-night attack on a security checkpost in the Bara area of Khyber.

According to police, some gunnies who were on foot shot up personnel of a security agency at a checkpost in Ajab Talab area of Meelward, in Akkakhel area of Khyber Agency
... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though...
, late on Wednesday night.

Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales...
a policeman was martyred in Sarband area, a locality on the outskirts of the bucolic provincial capital, when unidentified attackers shot up a checkpost.

A police official said ASI Rahim Shah was maimed in the attack. He later died in hospital. In Bannu, four bad boyz were potted in an intelligence-based operation in a mountainous area of Ping Omerzai late on Wednesday night, said an official on Thursday.
Related:
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Khyber: 2022-04-06 Bill Gates looks to strengthen ties between Pakistan, his foundation on 'issues of shared interests'
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Peshawar: 2022-03-20 Speaker Asad Qaiser's Relatives Assault Motorway Police Personnel
Peshawar: 2022-03-14 Pasban-i-Aza man shot dead in Ancholi ‘targeted attack’
Related:
Nowshera: 2022-03-23 Four terrorists killed in Bajaur gun battle: ISPR
Nowshera: 2021-07-27 Militancy on rise in Rajouri, security forces interact with VDCs
Nowshera: 2020-06-23 Good afternoon
Related:
Bannu: 2022-01-28 10 soldiers martyred in terrorist attack on checkpost in Balochistan's Kech: ISPR
Bannu: 2022-01-15 Good Morning
Bannu: 2022-01-15 Soldier martyred in terrorist attack on military post in Bannu
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Afghanistan
13 Children En Route to Terrorist Training Rescued: MoJ
2021-08-11
[ToloNews] The Afghan Ministry of Justice said on Tuesday that the country's intelligence forces prevented 13 Afghan children from being taken to Pakistain and trained to be terrorists.

According to the ministry, Death Eaters intended to take the children to the Khyber Agency
... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though...
in Pakistain's Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province to provide them terrorism training after deceiving their families, but the Afghan cops prevented it from happening.
Well spotted, guys!
"Our country is in a state of war, in a state of - unfortunately - obvious aggression; when a society is in a state of war, its obvious that calamities and catastrophes are widespread as well," said Justice Minister Fazel Ahmad Manawi.

The radicalization of children in Pak religious schools is a constant concern for Afghan leaders and regional and international analysts.

The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations stated that another 67 children who were being smuggled by human traffickers and migrants colonists out of the country in border areas between Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Afghanistan were detained by Iranian border guards and handed over to Afghan cops.

Zabiullah Rahmatzadeh, director of immigration at the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations, said: "These people were going to Iran from Nimroz via Zahedan; fortunately, we handed them back to their families."

Numbers provided by the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations show that in the last four months more than 70 people, including six women and three children who were about to be taken out of the country by human traffickers, have been rescued by Afghan police forces.

Zahir Farahi, the Interior Ministry's director of the human trafficking department, said: "They had made fake visas, photo-changed passports, fake passports, and generally fake ID cards for them, and they wanted to get them out illegally either through the air or across open borders."

Members of the Afghan government's High Commission to Combat Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Moslem colonists Migrants held a conference on Monday to discuss the US State Department's recent report on human trafficking.

According to the US State Department’s report, Afghanistan is among the 17 countries that have failed to meet the minimum standards set for the prevention of human trafficking.

The State Department has warned that the 17 countries’ efforts in fighting human trafficking have been insufficient and unsatisfying and this could lead to sanctions by the United States against these countries.
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Afghanistan
Lashkar-e-Islam leader killed in an IED explosion
2021-01-30
[KhaamaPress] Mangal Bagh
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency...
, head of Pakistain’s Lashkar-e-Islam
...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It was headed by a former bus driver and eventually folded into the TTP...
was killed in an IED explosion on Thursday in Nangarhar
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India-Pakistan
Security Forces in Pakistan Stop Christmas Day Terror Attack
2020-12-26
[PERSECUTION.ORG] Last week, security forces in Pakistain reportedly stopped a major terror attack planned to take place on Christmas Day in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
. In a raid on a house in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber district, four terrorists, including the leader of a banned murderous Moslem outfit, were arrested.The arrests took place last Thursday, December 17, after a raid on a house in Sipah. Security forces arrested four terrorists, including Zakir Afridi, the commander of Lashkar-e-Islam
...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It was headed by a former bus driver and eventually folded into the TTP...
Along with the terrorists, security forces seized three suicide jackets and six improvised bombs.

Pakistain’s Christian community is often targeted by bandidos bandidos murderous Moslems and bully boys. Terrorists view Christians and their places of worship as representations of the West and target them to make political statements.

In September 2013, two jacket wallahs from the Pak Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
attacked All Saints Church in Peshawar. Over 100 Christians were killed when the bombers blew themselves up in the courtyard of the church following a Sunday worship service. In claiming responsibility for the bombing, the Pakistain Taliban stated it targeted All Saints Church as a statement against US dronezaps in Pakistain.
Related:
Peshawar: 2020-12-23 Mullah Baradar: Taliban Meets in Pakistan Over Peace Talks
Peshawar: 2020-11-10 Mahboob Ahmad Khan, a member of Ahmadiyya community, was waiting at the bus stop after visiting his daughter, when unknown assailants attacked him at close range, killing him on the spot
Peshawar: 2020-10-30 Investigation into Peshawar seminary explosion expanded
Related:
Sipah: 2020-09-13 Sipah Sahaba and Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan took to roads chanting slogans against the Shia community in Karachi
Sipah: 2020-04-14 More than 50 clerics warn govt not to further restrictions on prayer congregations
Sipah: 2020-02-18 Blast near Quetta Press Club claims 7 lives, leaves 21 injured
Related:
Lashkar-e-Islam: 2020-08-12 8 Local Force Members Killed in Nangarhar
Lashkar-e-Islam: 2019-05-19 Peshawar High Court sets aside conviction of ‘militant’
Lashkar-e-Islam: 2018-03-04 Captain, soldier injured in blast
Related:
All Saints Church: 2015-03-29 Handler of Bashir Bilour's killer held
All Saints Church: 2014-12-26 A sombre Christmas
All Saints Church: 2014-12-20 It wasn’t the final atrocity
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Afghanistan
Ex-Daesh Women and Children Transferred Across Durand Line
2020-01-10
[ToloNews] One hundred and thirty women and kiddies separated from surrendered ISIS fighters were transferred to Pak tribal elders in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province on Wednesday.

Nangarhar governor Shah Mahmood Miakhel said that these women and kiddies, along with hundreds of ISIS fighters, had surrendered to security forces in Nangarhar in recent months.

"Nearly 50 women and 80 children, after being identified by their relatives‐and, of course, after the women confirm--will be handed over to their relatives," said Miakhel, governor.

"These women are the Pashtun’s dignity. They are not criminals and the Afghan people should not consider them criminals," said Malik Osman, a tribal elder across the Durand Line.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia...
some rustics accused the Pak military intelligence service of supporting terror groups in Afghanistan.

Pakistain has denied the allegation.

"The savage Pak military‐ISI-- has wreaked havoc on us, and now they have started here (Afghanistan). Let's stop these evil people together," said Malik Saboori Afridi, a tribal elder across the Durand Line.

"We are very pleased with you (Afghan government). These people (ISIS fighters) have committed more crimes in our country than they ever did in your country," said Asmatullah Orakzai, a tribal elder from across the Durand Line.

Local government officials in Nangarhar said the defeat of ISIS in the province late last year resulted in one thousand and one hundred ISIS fighters, many of them Paks, surrendering to security forces with their children and spouses.

Last year in November 2019 President Ghani, visiting Nangarhar province, said the "elimination "of ISIS in the province is a major achievement for Afghanistan, the region and the world.

In recent years, Nangarhar has been named a key ISIS base in Afghanistan.

During his visit to Nangarhar province President Ghani also considered what to do with the ISIS members and their families who have surrendered.

"My request, Mr. Governor, is to speak to the elders as soon as possible in order to deal in an Afghan and Islamic way with the women and kiddies of ISIS fighters and to prepare a plan to transfer them to the other tribes-- of Wazoo or Khyber Agency
... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though...
. I don't want to hand them over to Pakistain," Ghani said.
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Afghanistan
Ghani Commends Afghan Forces for Clearing Nangarhar of Daesh
2019-11-20
[ToloNews] President Ghani, visiting Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province on Tuesday, said the "elimination "of ISIS in the province is a major achievement for Afghanistan, the region and the world.

In recent years, Nangarhar has been named a key ISIS base in Afghanistan.

According to government forces in Nangarhar, 243 ISIS fighters with 625 women and kiddies have surrendered to the government.Ghani made the trip expressly to acknowledge the achievement of Afghan cops.

"I want to congratulate you (residents of Nangarhar) and say that you have come up with a formula that will be a model for the survival of Afghanistan; Meaning: the people, based on a cautious security analysis, work with the security forces and the civilian administration, and with unity make everything possible," said Ghani.

Ghani also considered what to do with the ISIS members and their families who have surrendered.

"My request, Mr. Governor, is to speak to the elders as soon as possible in order to deal in an Afghan and Islamic way with the women and kiddies of ISIS fighters and to prepare a plan to transfer them to the other tribes-- of Wazoo or Khyber Agency
... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though...
. I don't want to hand them over to Pakistain." Ghani said.

Local officials told of the significance of public uprisings in confronting ISIS in Nangarhar.

"We achieved this without a lot of bombings, without a lot of force, but with cooperation among our forces and with the people," said Shah Mahmood Miakhel, Nangarhar’s governor.
Related:
Nangarhar: 2019-11-19 Airstrikes kill 21 Taliban, ISIS militants; destroy car bombs in 6 provinces
Nangarhar: 2019-11-19 Special Forces kill 5 Taliban, ISIS militants; destroy multiple caches of weapons
Nangarhar: 2019-11-18 Nangarhar: ISIS in Khurasan Province surrenders to Taliban, 72 more ISIS turbans surrender to Afghan gov’t forces
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Olde Tyme Religion
Pope Francis: God Has a ‘Particular Concern for Foreigners’
2019-09-30
[BREITBART] Pope Francis celebrated the World Day of Moslem colonists Migrants and Refugees in the Vatican Sunday, insisting on the "moral duty" to welcome the stranger with the compassion exhibited by God himself.

The Lord "upholds the stranger as well as the widow and the orphan among his people," the pope said in his homily at morning Mass in St. Peter’s Square. "The Lord has a particular concern for foreigners, widows and orphans, for they are without rights, excluded and marginalized. This is why God tells the Israelites to give them special care."

Citing the biblical book of Exodus, Francis said that the God of Israel is the one who "executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing."

"This loving care for the less privileged is presented as a characteristic trait of the God of Israel and is likewise required, as a moral duty, of all those who would belong to his people," he said.

Yet this message "is not only about foreigners; it is about all those in existential peripheries who, together with migrants colonists and refugees, are victims of the throwaway culture," the pope clarified.
Related:
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Pope Francis: 2019-08-28 Sri Lankan Islamic clerics seek clarity on face veil ban
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Related:
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India-Pakistan
Five more polio cases reported from KP
2019-06-29
[DAWN] Refusals and misconceptions have been hampering the polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
eradication drive in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa as five more cases have been reported from various parts of the province.

The cournty-wide tally for the first six months of the year 2019 has reached 32 as compared to 12 cases in 2018 and only eight in year 2017.

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa alone has recorded 26 cases so far, mostly from the highly-infected Bannu division. Bannu has 11 cases and North Wazoo six, followed by Torghar with three and one each from D.I. Khan, Hangu, Lakki Marwat, Shangla, Bajaur and Khyber Agency
... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though...
An official of the Polio Virology Laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH), requesting anonymity, said that two cases each had been reported from Bannu and Torghar and one from North Waziristan.

"An eight-month-old boy from Takhti Khel Union Council and a 10-month-old boy from Kotka Gul Adat Khan village of Bannu district were diagnosed with the crippling virus," he said.

"Of the two cases reported from Torghar, the first one is a 48-month-old girl who belongs to Gaeito village and the other is a 24-month-old boy from Harnail Union Council. From North Waziristan’s Zeraki village, an 11-month-old girl has been infected," he said.

When contacted, retired captain Kamran Ahmad Afridi, KP Emergency Operations Centre coordinator, said: "The propaganda against polio vaccine and increase in number of refusal cases is a major cause behind the spike in cases in the province."

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India-Pakistan
Peshawar High Court sets aside conviction of ‘militant’
2019-05-19
[DAWN] Setting aside his conviction in the erstwhile Fata by an assistant political agent, the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
High Court has acquitted a man on the charges of waging war and taking up arms against the state.

A bench consisting of Justice Ikramullah Khan and Justice Musarrat Hilali accepted an appeal of convict Karim Khan of Jamrud area in Khyber tribal district, who was enjugged
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
few years ago on the charge of being a member of the defunct Lashkar-e-Islam
...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver....
He was later convicted by the Jamrud APA on Oct 25, 2017, and was sentenced to life imprisonment under the Pakistain Penal Code’s sections 121 (waging war against the state), 121-A (conspiracy to wage war) and 122 (taking up arms against the state).

Shabbir Hussain Gigyani, lawyer for the appellant, said his client was arrested by security forces several years ago and had remained in their illegal custody before he was handed over to the then administration of Khyber region and was tried under the now repealed Frontier Crimes Regulation.

The lawyer said there were no specific allegations of terrorism against the appellant and that a joint investigation team had asked the administration to convict him without producing any evidence in that respect.

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