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India-Pakistan

Seven militants killed in Kurram clash

2011-09-18

[Dawn] Seven faceless myrmidons were killed and two others maimed when two groups clashed in Gawaki area of central Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... , while a soldier died and two others suffered injuries while they were destroying beturbanned goons` ammunition depot in Jamrud on Friday. Sources said that in Gawaki area a clash between two beturbanned goon groups, each led by Quwat Khan and Mullah Tofan, left seven people dead and two others maimed. Both groups are said to have old rivalries. The security forces had recently claimed they had cleared the Gawaki and other parts of central Kurram of beturbanned goons. Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... officials said that the security forces conducted an operation in Chora village of Jamrud on Friday and destroyed a beturbanned goon hideout in the area. They said that the forces also recovered an ammunition depot and planted explosives to destroy it when the kaboom occurred, leaving one soldier dead and two others injured. They said that the kaboom was so powerful that its sound was heard several kilometers away in Ghundi and other parts of Jamrud. In Bara tehsil, a 12-year-old girl was critically injured when a mortar shell fired by security forces from Fort Salop fell on a house. In a similar incident, three women were maimed when a mortar shell fell on another house in Sipah area on the night between Thursday and Friday.

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India-Pakistan

Terror attack at CIA office foiled; suspect arrested

2010-11-17

[Dawn] A man carrying a bomb in a baggie and addressed to a deputy superintendent of police was jugged on Monday when he was about to deliver the parcel. [Knock knock!] "Who's there?" "Candygram!" "Stick 'em up!" SSP Alam Khan said the man arrived at the CIA Centre in Sector I-9/4 and asked the guard at the gate to deliver the parcel to the DSP. When the guard asked him to wait so that he could inform the DSP about the parcel, the man bolted after leaving the bag. However, The infamous However... police captured him after a brief chase. "Here, you! Halt or I'll [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!] shoot!" The SSP said that during the search two books -- Major Act and Minor Act -- containing over 2,000 pages were found in the bag attached with some wires. The explosives were planted in the books by making hole in pages. Bomb disposal personnel were called to defuse the explosives. A senior officer said the man, identified as Mohammad Rafique, was a resident of Orakzai Agency. ... home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar... His son Mohammad Hanif was a boomer who blew himself up at the gate of Naval Complex on Dec 2 last year. Two navy officers were killed and 10 others injured in the attack. The officer said that Rafique had been associated with Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam and Jamaatud Dawa in the past. The BSc degree-holder was wanted in a number of terrorist acts and seven kidnappings for ransom in which two victims had been killed, he said. His accomplices were identified as Hafiz Saeed, Mullah Tofan and Mullah Noor Jamal. DIG Bani Amin said that Rafique was a member of the Tehrik-i-Taliban's Majlis-i-Shura in Orakzai Agency. He was a teacher, but after the demolition of his school by the TTP he joined the outlawed organisation. He was also a katib (writer) of Qazi Adalat set up by the TTP in the agency, the DIG said. Rafique criminally masterminded the suicide kaboom on the Naval Complex and also played a role in an attack on the office of the UN World Food Programme. He'll got off for lack of evidence, of course... Another terror suspect, Sepoy Noor Jahan of the Frontier Constabulary, jugged in connection with the WFP attack in March this year also spoke of the involvement of Rafique in the two attacks.

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