Posts Tagged ‘Bajaur’

Missing persons’ case: PHC issues notices to political agents

PESHAWAR: It was a difficult day for political agents and police officials on Thursday, when the Peshawar High Court issued them notices in the missing persons’ case and ordered police stations in Peshawar to ensure the recovery of the abducted men.

The PHC ordered the Orakzai political agent to produce a detainee along with his records, when the court was informed that tribal chieftains had declared Mehboob Shah to be innocent but he was still in custody of the political administration.

The PHC chief justice, while heading a divisional bench with Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, was informed that Shah, a resident of Bezoti area, went missing from the agency in 2010 and his wife Bangi Marjan had accused security forces of having picked him.

In the case of Darwesh Khan, who went missing from the Peshawar Central Prison in 2009, the chief justice said: “It is evident that the detainee is in a detention cell of the [Bajaur] political agent. Hence, the political agent is directed to produce the man with all others record on the next date of hearing.”

SHOs asked to recover missing persons

“In case your relatives go missing, you will dig out all the information in no time and recover them within an hour,” remarked the chief justice.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 30^th, 2012.

Bomb kills five tribesmen

BAJAUR AGENCY – At least five persons were killed and two others seriously injured in a remote control bomb blast in tehsil Mamond of Bajaur Agency on Wednesday.
The explosion occurred at Ghatki village of tehsil Mamond, some 30 kilometres away from the agency headquarter, Khar. The tribesmen were present at a hujra when suddenly a powerful bomb planted by some unknown miscreants went off.
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Four killed in Bajaur blast

At least four people were killed and 3 other wounded in a remote control bomb blast at Gudgay area of Muhmad teshil of Bajaur agency, officials said on Wednesday. Security officials said that a vehicle was targeted by terrorist who exploded remote control device when it was passing through the main road of the area. They said four people were killed in the blast while 3 others sustained injuries, …

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Bomb kills five anti-Taliban fighters in Bajaur

KHAR: A bomb killed at least five people and wounded three others on Wednesday in Pakistan’s northwest tribal badlands bordering Afghanistan, officials said. The deaths occurred in Gatcheena village, 30 kilometres northwest of Khar, the main town of lawless Bajaur district, after a bomb planted at a village meeting place was detonated remotely. “At least [...]

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Pakistan Taliban ‘number two sacked’: spokesman

PESHAWAR: The number two commander in Pakistan’s nebulous, umbrella Taliban movement has been sacked as deputy chief but will remain within the organisation, a spokesman said Monday. Maulvi Faqir Mohammad is the Taliban’s commander in Bajaur, one of Pakistan’s seven districts in the tribal belt on the Afghan border and one that has seen a [...]

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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.
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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.
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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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