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Kidnapped khasadar found dead in Mohmand
2012-02-13
The body of a kidnapped official of Khasadar Force was found in Khwezai area of Mohmand
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
Agency on Saturday, officials said.

They said that the slain khasadar
...a rural policeman in Pakistain or India...
, Toor Gul Khan, a resident of Atta Khewazai, was kidnapped by unidentified hard boyz along with three other people a couple of days ago.

The other kidnapped persons were identified as Khalid, Ajmir and Mohammad.

Mohmand Taliban front man Mukarram Khurasani has grabbed credit for the killing of the kidnapped security man, saying other people in their custody are relatives of khasadars.

In Khyber Agency, one person was injured and a vehicle was partially damaged when a roadside kaboom went kaboom! in Tirah valley on Saturday.

Sources said that a pick-up truck loaded with timber was on its way to a local market when it was hit by an bomb planted along roadside in Khayest village.

They said that the driver was critically injured while his vehicle was partially damaged. The injured driver, whose identity could not be established, was shifted to a local dispensary for treatment.

In Kohat, police claimed to have set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock nine hard boyz including a local commander after fierce shootout in Mando Khel area on late Friday night.

The hard boyz hurled hand grenades at a police van during a search operation and injured a constable identified as Syed Hussain. He was admitted to a hospital.

Bilitang police, backed by armoured personnel carriers, had launched a search operation in the area after getting information that hard boyz were hiding there.

Militants attacked a police vehicle with hand grenades. An APC was also partially damaged in the attack. After the incident, Elite Force and commandoes were sent to the area to help the police party busy in search operation.

The law-enforcers besieged the entire area and set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock a local turban commander identified as Mullah Yousuf Ali along with his eight accomplices.

The set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock hard boyz were shifted to Bilitang cop shoppe where a case was registered against them under Terrorism Act.

Meanwhile,
...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion...
the commissioner of Kohat has claimed that hard boyz have been wiped out from most of the areas in frontier region and peace will be restored after the expulsion of their remnants.

He was speaking after inaugurating 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...
vaccination campaign in the office of the assistant political agent by administering drops to a child.

He said that the semi-autonomous tribal area of Kohat had been made safe by security forces and the remaining hard boyz would also be eliminated soon.

The commissioner said that government would form peace jirgas throughout the Frontier Region of Kohat to ensure lasting peace in the areas.

He said that government would set up a university in Darra Adamkhel that would play a major role in educating rustics and bring them at par with other areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
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India-Pakistan
FATA militants commit to fight in Afghanistan
2008-07-15
In early June, about 300 fighters of various jihadi groups gathered in Rawalpindi for a secret gathering and agreed to resolve their differences and commit more fighters to Afghanistan. "The message was that the jihad in Kashmir is still continuing but it is not the most important right now. Afghanistan is the fighting ground, against the Americans there," said Toor Gul, a leader of the militant group Hezbul Mujahideen. He said the groups in attendance had included the Al Qaeda-linked Jaish-e-Muhammad and the Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, Pakistani military and European intelligence officials confirmed the meeting, with a senior military official describing it as "an intelligence failure".

Meanwhile, NATO spokesman Mark Laity expressed concern that the Pakistan government's peace deals with militants were leading to "increased cross border activity". However, Gul said that Mohmand and Bajaur agencies, in the country's northwest, were emerging as the strongest insurgent centres. Pakistani and Western officials corroborated his information.

A former minister in the previous government, requesting anonymity, confirmed this, saying that insurgents were being paid between Rs 6,000 and 8,000 a month in Mohmand. He claimed that the Pakistani military and intelligence services were aware of this.

Understanding:
He said that under a tacit understanding with authorities, militants were free to cross to fight in Afghanistan so long as they did not stage attacks inside Pakistan.
Maulvi Abdul Rahman
, a Taliban militant, said jihadi sympathisers in the Middle East were sending money to support the insurgents and more Central Asians were coming to fight. He said that under a tacit understanding with authorities, militants were free to cross to fight in Afghanistan so long as they did not stage attacks inside Pakistan.

Denial: However, Pakistan's army vehemently denies giving covert aid to militants. "If anyone says the army is providing sanctuary, nothing could be further from the truth," army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said. He criticised the US and NATO forces for failing to capture insurgents when they cross into Afghanistan or stop them from coming into Pakistan. "Is it the responsibility of only one side to stop the border crossings?" he asked. Another senior government official said Pakistan has become the scapegoat for US and NATO failures in Afghanistan. He also denied that the army was helping militants.
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