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IED blast kills businessman in Peshawar

2012-05-19

[Dawn] A businessman was killed and another injured when a remote-controlled bomb went kaboom! in their spare parts shop near Scheme Chowk on the outskirts of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar.The blast was so loud that it damaged windowpanes of vehicles parked nearby. An official of the Badbher cop shoppe said the kaboom injured two and one of them died of critical injuries at the Lady Reading Hospital. He said the dead man was Mohid Khan, a 30-year-old resident of Peshawar's Qari Qamar Din area, while the injured was Israruddin, a 40-year-old resident of Peshawar's Bazidkhel area. Israruddin later said the kaboom took place almost 10 minutes after he reached the shop owned by Mr Mohid. A bomb disposal unit official told Dawn that improvised bomb packed in a ghee canister was placed inside a cupboard of the shop. He said IED contained steel nails and other metallic pieces but police didn't find evidence for use of any remote-controlled device in the blast. Police said Mohid was an Afghan national but it had yet to be ascertained if he had any links with the Taliban. They said they had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified Islamic fascisti and began investigation. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... no arrests could be made until night.In another incident, suspected faceless myrmidons attacked a checkpoint with a hand grenade in the limits of Hayatabad cop shoppe on Thursday evening, leaving two private guards injured. An official of Hayatabad police said that the injured guards, identified as Haris and Tauheed, were associated with a private security company, who used to wear police-like uniform. He said that the checkpoint was located at a short distance from the FIA provincial headquarters in Peshawar. The officials claimed that the attack was aimed at police. Cantonment circle SP Shabih Hussain told media persons that the injured was shifted to a local hospital and search for the arrest of attackers had been launched. Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system... provincial police chief Akbar Khan Hoti directed his force's top bosses to ensure strict security checks in the province to prevent terrorism. The directions were issued during a meeting at the central police office in Peshawar on Thursday. Police officers from all Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... regions attended the meeting during which overall law and order situation in the province came under discussion. Mr Hoti directed the deputy inspector generals to call a meeting of coppers in their respective regions to examine security apparatus and its shortcomings and find ways and means to correct them. He said the Elite Force was a striking force so its personnel could not be detailed to guard VIPs otherwise their professional capabilities would spoil. He asked the commandant of the Elite Force to task the Elite Force with what they have been trained.Mr Hoti warned police official against negligence, violence and corruption and said those found involved in such acts would be dealt with strictly.

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Nineteen killed in Nepal unrest

2007-09-20

KATHMANDU - At least 19 people including a police officer have died in violence in south western Nepal sparked by the killing of a local Muslim leader, police said Wednesday. They have Muslims in Nepal? Hundreds of houses and vehicles were destroyed when angry mobs rampaged through the area in protests that followed the shooting of politician Mohid Khan on Sunday, police said. Khan was the leader of an anti-Maoist vigilante group during Nepal’s 10-year civil war between the former rebels and the government, said Kadayat. ‘Five more bodies were discovered Wednesday and local people have told us that another nine people were burned to death, but we need to test the charred remains to verify that they are human,’ said Kuber Kadayat, the district deputy superintendent of police. Curfews were slapped on three areas in the district from Sunday evening, and remained in place until Wednesday, the police officer said. Police said they did not know when or why the victims were killed. ‘We have no idea who was behind any of these killings, including Khan’s,’ said the police officer said from Kapilvastu district, 230 kilometres (143 miles) south west of Kathmandu. Hmmm, Maoists are trying to take over the place, while Khan and his hard boyz prefer a caliphate. Nope, his death is a mystery to us all. At least 100 people have been killed in Nepal’s southern Terai region since the start of the year in ethnic violence, clouding a peace deal reached late last year between the government and former rebel Maoists. Around a dozen armed ethnic groups have emerged who say they are fighting for greater autonomy for residents of the Terai, home to around half of Nepal’s 27 million people, who have long been sidelined by Nepal’s political elite.

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