Posts Tagged ‘Bajaur’

17 students released

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Peshawar – Taliban on Thursday released 17 students after over three months of captivity who mistakenly crossed the border from the country’s northwest into Afghanistan, officials said.
More than 30 young people aged between 20 and 30 were kidnapped from Bajaur tribal region during celebrations marking the Eid holiday in September 2011. “Today Taliban have released 17 of them, some …

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Anti-Taliban fighter killed in Bajaur blast

A bomb blast in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt on Sunday killed an anti-Taliban militiaman and wounded three others, an official said.

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Bajaur Agency: Kidnapped boy returns home

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One of 25 kidnapped Pakistani children escaped from Afghan Taliban abduction and reached home on Monday.
During the Eid holidays, a group of 25 boys and young men were kidnapped by a group of extremists when they mistakenly crossed the border and entered Afghanistan from Bajaur.
Media Reports say that…

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US-led forces in Afghanistan taking no action against Maulvi Fazlullah: Athar Abbas

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Admitting the killing of 100 security forces personnel in the cross-border attacks in Dir, Mohamand and Bajaur, Inter Service Public Relation (ISPR) Director General (DG) Athar Abbas on Monday said that Pakistan has asked repeatedly to launch action against the fugitive Taliban Commander Maulvi Fazlullah, hiding in Afghanistan but no…

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TTP unsure about supporting Pakistan if US attacks

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The banned organization Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has said that they will not support Pakistan blindly in case of United States attack. While taking to a foreign news agency on Sunday, TTP’s leader and Taliban Commander of Bajaur area Moulvi Faqir Ahmed said that although the US and Pakistan are allies…

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Taliban unsure about supporting Pakistan if US attacks: TTP

ISLAMABAD: The banned organisation Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) said on Sunday that it will never support Pakistan blindly in case of an attack from the US, DawnNews reported. This was stated by TTP’s leader and Taliban Commander of Bajaur area Moulvi Faqir Ahmed while taking to the BBC. He said that although the US and Pakistan [...]

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Afghan terrorist dead in Bajaur clash

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BAJAUR AGENCY – At least two members of a local peace committee were killed while six volunteers got injured in an Afghan militants assault at a checkpost in Mandal area of tehsil Salarzai on Tuesday.
However, in retaliation the volunteers of the Peace Committee gunned down one of the Afghan…

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At least five killed, four injured in Bajaur blasts

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At least five persons were killed and four others injured in remote controlled bomb attacks on two passenger buses here in Bajaur on Thursday.
According to security sources, two passenger buses were targeted by remote controlled bombs in Chamarkand area of Bajaur Agency.
The powerful blasts destroyed the two passenger…

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Cabinet for durable peace in Karachi

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ISLAMABAD – The Federal Cabinet on Thursday condemned the abduction of innocent children from Bajaur Agency and asked the Afghan government to get the children freed soon.
The Federal Cabinet that met under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani at PM’s Secretariat expressed its serious concerns over…

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Taliban demand prisoner swap deal

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KUNAR (Reuters) – The Pakistani Taliban who are holding more than 20 young tribesmen hostage in an area straddling the border with Afghanistan have demanded the release of scores of prisoners and an stop of tribal elders’ support of offensives against them.
The teenage tribesmen from Bajaur tribal region…

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No person kidnapped by Afghan militants from Bajaur: DG ISPR

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DG ISPR Major General Athar Abbas has said that no person has been kidnapped from Bajaur Agency by Afghan militants. In an interview to a foreign news agency, he said people of Mamoom tribe live on both sides of the border and under the Appeasement Right, Mamoom tribesmen can cross…

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Pakistani tribal elders in talks with Taliban to free abductees

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani tribal elders are holding talks with Taliban militants in Afghanistan for the release of scores of young tribesmen kidnapped during an outing along the border, officials said on Sunday. The teenage tribesmen from Pakistan’s northwestern Bajaur tribal region were abducted by the militants on Thursday while they were on an outing in Afghanistan’s [...]

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Pakistani Taliban claim kidnapping up to 25 boys

PESHAWAR: Pakistani Taliban on Saturday claimed responsibility for holding up to 25 boys hostage as punishment for tribesmen who supported the military in the country’s troubled northwest. Pakistani officials said on Friday militants in Afghanistan kidnapped the boys after they mistakenly crossed the border while on an outing in the border tribal region of Bajaur [...]

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Militants lure 45 Pak boys to Afghanistan

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BAJAUR AGENCY – At least 18 Pakistani children out of 45, who have mistakenly crossed into Kunar province of Afghanistan, have been released while 27 are still in the captivity of Afghan militants, locals in Bajaur Agency said on Friday.
In order to celebrate Eidul Fitr, about 45 children belonging…

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Militants kill peace body member, son

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BAJAUR AGENCY – Militants gunned down a senior member of a peace committee along with his son on a Pak-Afghan border area at tehsil Chamarkand in Bajaur Agency on Wednesday.
A group of armed militants, stated to be over 20 in number, attacked a border check post in Nawa Pass…

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Militants kill anti-Taliban tribal elder, son in Bajaur

KHAR: Militants crossed over from Afghanistan and shot dead an anti-Taliban tribal elder and his son in the Bajaur tribal region on Wednesday, a Pakistani official said. Tariq Khan said Afsar Khan and his son Sher Alam were standing guard at a border post manned by members of a citizens’ militia in the tribal region [...]

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Twenty-four militants surrender to security forces in Bajaur Agency

PESHAWAR: Twenty-four militants have surrendered their arms, given themselves up to security forces in Bajaur and have renounced taken up arms again. According to officials in Bajaur agency’s Tehsil Nawaguy, 24 militants including four important commanders surrendered to security forces along with their weapons and have vowed to cooperate fully with authorities. They also vowed [...]

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