FATA Timeline - 2013

January 1

Two girl students of a seminary were killed and five others injured when a mortar shell landed outside the institution in Akkakhel area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency of FATA. The mortar shell fired from an unknown direction fell outside the seminary in Gud Malang locality when the students were leaving the place after attending their classes. The victims were identified as six-year-old daughter of Said Muhammad and seven-year-old daughter of Aziz Khan Zakhakhel. Five other girls injured in the incident were identified as daughters of Zar Malik, Manduz Zakhakhel and Zakir Khan.

A civilian worker of the FWO was killed and four security men were seriously injured when the vehicle they were travelling in was hit by a remote-controlled bomb near Matches Camp in Miranshah.

The house of an anti-polio worker was partially damaged in a blast apparently carried out by militants at Vermando Mela in Jamrud tehsil in Khyber Agency. The sources said that militants placed explosives in the backyard of the newly- constructed house of one Ashfaq, who has been working as polio campaigner in the area for last several years, before triggering the explosion. Two rooms and a veranda were destroyed in the explosion, the sources added.

At least two suspected militants were killed and six others injured in an overnight operation by Security Forces in Miranshah of North Waziristan Agency in FATA. According to an official, curfew had been imposed in the area indefinitely.

Taliban leader Maulvi Nazir was among 10 Taliban militants killed in a US-operated drone strike in the South Waziristan Agency of FATA. The drone targeted the Taliban leader's moving convoy. "Maulvi Nazir was on his way to Wana from Birmal when the convoy was hit in Sarkundi area (in Birmal tehsil), killing him and nine others," officials sources said.

Maulvi Nazir is the second top Taliban leader to be killed in a drone strike after Baitullah Mehsud, who was chief of the TTP when he was killed in 2009. Maulvi Nazir had 'earned fame' in spring 2007 when he led a successful uprising against foreign militants in Ahmedzai Wazir-held areas, ousting Uzbek militants along with their local supporters. He linked administration of polio vaccination to cessation of drone strikes and no polio drive could be launched in Ahmedzai Wazir areas since the ban in June 2012.

Security agencies warned the Government of likely backlash from the supporters of Maulvi Nazir. "There may be backlash from a Taliban group and the federal government should direct all provincial capitals to increase vigilance against any threat," security officials spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Pentagon (US) welcomed reports that Maluvi Nazir was killed in a drone strike, saying his death would represent a "major development." Pentagon spokesman George Little did not confirm the reports of the killing, but said, "If the reports are true, then this would be a significant blow, and would be very helpful not just to the United States but also to our Pakistani partners."

Nazir was killed along with his five guards when a missile hit his vehicle while he was going to Wana from Birmal on January 2. Maulvi Nazir's key aide Rata Khan was among the other militants killed when the vehicle was attacked near Angoor Adda on the Afghan border, the official said. Nazir had survived a suicide bombing in November 29, 2012. The TTP, the umbrella organisation of Pakistani militant groups, denied its involvement, but Nazir, under pressure from the government, ordered the expulsion of Mehsud tribesmen from Wana. The TTP leadership comes from the Mehsud tribe. He had entered into a peace agreement with the government after his group expelled militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, led then by Tahir Uldashev, in 2007 from the area. Nazir's fighters avoided attacking government and Security Forces' installations in the tribal region and cooperated with the local administration, an official said. The military is believed to have struck a non-aggression pact with Nazir ahead of its 2009 operation against militants in South Waziristan. Nazir was understood to be close to the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network. Nazir had property in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. He earlier used to be a member of the Hizb-i-Islami, an Afghan militant group.

Nazir's group quickly appointed his close aide Bawal Khan as a replacement, according to one of his aides. But a Reuters report named the successor as Salahuddin Ayubi.

In NWA, six militants, a close associate of the TTP's chief Hakimullah Mehsud among them, were killed in a drone attack in Mir Ali tehsil. According to sources, unmanned aircraft fired two missiles at about 9am on a car carrying Shah Faisal and other militants in Mubarak Shahi, some 20 kilometers east of Miranshah. Two others killed in the attack were identified as Israr and Lateef.

Local authorities said that a second drone strike targeted other militants, including TTP 'commander' Faisal Khan and two Uzbek militants in Mir Ali region of NWA on January 2.

Helicopter gunships pounded several areas in NWA, killing three people, including a woman, and injuring four others. Dozens of families fled the area after several houses were damaged by shelling on Matches Camp in Miranshah. Militants were suspected to be hiding in the areas. The administration imposed a curfew in the region for the second day and launched a search operation after a security man and a civilian were killed and four personnel injured in a roadside bomb attack on a vehicle of the Frontier Works Organization.

A Government school was blown up in Mashokhel village in the night. Police officials in the area said the militants bombed the school by placing explosives at the building of the Government High School Mashokhel located the jurisdiction of the Badaber Police Station. The explosion was triggered with a remote-controlled device that destroyed three rooms and caused cracks in other parts of the building.

Twenty militants were killed and 12 others sustained injuries in air strikes carried out by Army warplanes in the Kukikhel area of Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency of FATA. The sources said that fighter jet bombed the sanctuaries of the TTP in Dwatoy and Bragat areas, killing 20 militants and causing injuries to 12 others. The official sources said that 'commander' Abdul Wali alias Umar Khalid, designated head of TTP for Tirah valley, was also present in Dwatoy at the time of the attack. Some reports suggested that he was among the dead. However, it couldn't be verified from independent sources or the TTP due to lack of communication facilities in the Tirah Valley.

The Kukikhel part of the Tirah valley fell to the TTP a few months back after the militant group defeated the Kukikhel Afridi tribal lashkar. The sources said that the Commander Tariq Afridi-led faction of TTP having bases in the valley had claimed responsibility for the assassination of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister Bashir Bilour in Peshawar and also for the killing of 22 kidnapped members of the Levies force in Frontier Region Peshawar. Sources said that TTP cadres had celebrated the death of Bashir Bilour by resorting to festive firing for two hours in Dwatoy and surrounding areas. The fresh airstrikes conducted by the SFs might be a reaction to the assassination of Bashir Bilour and the deaths of 22 Levies personnel.

Seven more bullet-riddled bodies were recovered near Sarobi village area on Miranshah-Razmak road in NWA. The sources said unknown people after killing the seven men placed their bodies near Sarobi village. The residents of Sarobi village went there and saw the seven bodies, but they were not able to recognise them. The villagers said all the seven men were shot dead. They said some of the bodies had several marks of bullet injuries. It was second time bullet-riddled bodies were recovered in the volatile tribal region during the past few days. Nine bullet-riddled bodies were recovered a few days ago from Mir Ali subdivision.

A jirga of Haleemzai tribe in Mohmand Agency decided at Ghallanai to strengthen the local peace committees to protect Government properties in the area. The jirga, held at the hujra of local peace committee leader Malik Mohammad Ali Haleemzai at Sangar village, extended cooperation to SFs and political administration in maintenance of peace in the tribal region.

At least 17 persons, all believed to be suspected militants, were killed and eight others sustained injuries in three separate US drone attacks in the mountainous Babar area of Ladha subdivision in South Waziristan Agency of FATA. According to sources, the drones fired 10 missiles and hit three different compounds of militants located in the remote mountainous Babar area. The compounds were reportedly inhabited by the militants affiliated with Hakimullah Mehsud's TTP and cadres of the Punjabi TTP chapter leader Qari Imran. A cousin of the TTP 'chief' Hakimullah Mehsud, Wali Mohammad Toofan, was among the killed militants. Toofan had been recently elevated to head TTP's 'Fidayee wing' (Suicide wing) after its leader Qari Hussain died in a drone strike.

Ten militants killed and several others were injured when fighter planes shelled in the militants' stronghold of Arghanjoo in Mamozai area in Orakzai Agency. Witnesses said that the planes came into action at around 10am and carried out intense shelling on four houses, razing them to the ground. The dead belonged to Uthmankhel, Ferozkhel and Mamozai areas.

Six persons, including a woman, were killed when unidentified assailants ambushed a car in Dargai area of Jamrud tehsil in Khyber Agency. The sources said that the car was heading to Jamrud Bazaar from Chapri village when armed assailants ambushed it and killed two people and injured four others. All the victims of the shooting belonged to Kukikhel tribe.

At least two security personnel were killed and another one injured in an IED explosion near Albo security check post in Margano Jalaa area of Khwezai tehsil, some 40 kilometres west of Ghalanai, the main town of Mohmand Agency. Assistant Political Agent for Khwezai, Ghazi Nawaz, confirmed that two security personnel were killed and one was injured in the blast.

Tribal elder Malik Amir Nawaz Khan escaped a remote controlled bomb blast at Kassai area of Haleemzai tehsil. Officials said that Malik Amir Nawaz was going to Sangar village to attend a jirga when the blast occurred. He escaped unhurt.

In Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency, Army jetfighters targeted militant hideouts. Sources said that the hideouts were pounded in Khurma Tung area of Akkakhel. Two hideouts were destroyed while militants escaped unhurt as they had vacated the place before the aerial bombing.

SFs arrested four suspected militants during a search operation in Ghundi area of Jamrud tehsil.

At least eight militants were killed and four others injured when US drones fired missiles struck militant compounds in the villages of Haider Khel and Hisokhel, some 25 kilometres east of Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan Agency of FATA. Legal lobby group Reprieve estimates that up to nearly 900 civilians were among the 2,621 to 3,442 people killed by drones in Pakistan since 2004.

A member of a peace committee was killed and another injured in an explosion in Bokhar, remote area of Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency of FATA. Unidentified assailants had planted the bomb near the road that exploded, killing a member of peace committee, Imran, and injured another person, identified as Noor Muhammad.

The dead body of a Sikh man, who was abducted by militants over a month ago after accusing him of acting as a "spy" for a rival group, was recovered from Zakhakhel Bazaar in Khyber Agency. Unidentified militants abducted Mohinder Singh from his shop in Tabbai village on November 20.

Three security men - a khasadar, Khan Akbar, and two personnel of Mehsud Scouts - Naib Subedar Ashraf and Sepoy Asad - were injured when unidentified militants ambush a convoy of SFs in Muslim Dhand area of Bara. The convoy was on its way to Levies centre in Shahkas when it was attacked.

Four children were injured when a mortar shell fell on the house of Askar Khan Malikdinkhel in Sur Kas area of Bar Qambarkhel.

SFs with the help of Shalobar Peace Committee arrested four suspected militants during a raid in Nawgazee Baba area. The arrested men, Mohammad Jan, Khuga Jan, Marjan Khan, Jerman Khan and Zar Mohammad, were accused of having contacts with a Bara-based militant outfit.

Unidentified militants abducted four watchmen at Jandola bazaar in the FR Tank. The sources said watchmen Sultan Khan, Attaullah Khan Bhittani, Shaukat Khan Bhittani and Samiullah were abducted from a private market in Jandola Bazaar.

At least six militants were killed in US drones attack in Heso Khel village on the edge of Mir Ali town, around 35 kilometres east of Miranshah town of North Waziristan Agency of FATA. It was the fifth American drone strike reported in Pakistan in a week. Pakistani security officials said US drones fired four missiles - two at a house and another two at a nearby motorbike, killing four militants in the house and two on the bike.

One soldier, Amir Khan, was injured critically when militants fired at a checkpost in Ajali Nadi area of Shalobar in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency.

Two children received injuries when a mortar shell fell on the house of Hikmat Khan near Aziz Market of Akkakhel area while in Mandi Kas area one Hazratullah was injured in a similar incident.

In the same locality, two rooms of a private school were badly damaged when a mortar shell hit it. An overhead water tank at the house of Malik Waris Khan, a Former Minister of State, was also damaged when it was hit by a stray mortar shell.

Militants blew up a Government school for girls in Hanji Ayub Kallay in Spin Qabar area in the night. The explosion destroyed the school building and caused damage to two nearby houses.

LI warned Zakhakhel tribe to either provide it with volunteers or leave the area. Sources said that LI militants distributed pamphlets and made announcements through loudspeakers in Shalobar area, asking Zakhakhel to send them volunteers or leave the area.

A roadside bomb killed as many as 14 soldiers and injured 21 others in Dosali village, 50 kilometres south of Miranshah, in North Waziristan Agency of FATA. A 'spokesman' for the Mujahideen Ansar, a group dominated by Uzbek fighters, claimed responsibility and said that the attack was retaliation for the Army's complicity in drone strikes. The group is allied to TTP.

A soldier was killed when a shell fired by the militants hit a security checkpost in the Nala area of Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency. The killed soldier was identified as Sepoy Rehmat Hussain. Following the attack, SFs shelled the suspected positions of militants in various areas of Bara.

One person was killed and eight others were injured when a blast struck a passenger coach in Khwar Killay area near Sadda town in Kurram Agency of FATA. A passenger coach, carrying around two dozen passengers, was travelling from Peshawar to Parachinar when it was struck by a remotely detonated IED.

Three khasadar personnel, captured by militants during a clash in Kohikhel area of Shalobar in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency in FATA, were beheaded. At least seven khasadar personnel were injured during clashes. The fighting erupted in the evening after militants attacked three security posts in Kohikhel. The attackers reportedly forced security personnel to retreat from two posts and captured arms and ammunition.

Seven soldiers and four militants were killed in fighting between banned LI and SFs in Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency of FATA. The sources said that dozens of militants of LI attacked the newly-established three security posts manned by personnel of FC, Pakistan Army and Khasadar Force in Arjaleen Adey, Machine Dhand and Mashomanu Adeera in Shalobar area of Bara. Following the attack, the SFs shelled the suspected positions of militants in different areas of Bara from nearby bases. Two helicopters shelled the suspected hideouts of militants in Shalobar and Nala area but no casualties were reported. The sources said that dozens of suspected persons were also arrested by SFs in Sepah and Shalobar area of Bara.

13 bullet-riddled bodies of local people belonging to three families were also found in Alamgudar and Dogra areas of Bara populated by Sepah Afridi tribe. No group or individual claimed responsibility for the killings.

197 Pakistani militants surrendered to the Army in the year 2012 in Bajaur Agency. Political Agent Syed Abdul Jabbar Shah commented, "During the past five years, more than 6,000 militants have surrendered to the government". He further added that ex-militants who surrendered have denounced terrorism and joined mainstream society. Peace committees and the general public has been instrumental in forcing militants to lay down arms, he further said.

LI militants attacked the house of a FC trooper Shabir in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency in FATA and killed his father Abdul Jalil and four brothers. An FC official said that Shabir was not at home at the time of the attack.

At least five persons, including two women and two children, were killed and nine others were injured when helicopter gunships shelled targets in Mir Ali tehsil of North Waziristan Agency of FATA. Sources said the helicopter gunships attacked targets in Hassamkhel, Haiderkhel, Inzar, Aipee and Khushal Toorikhel villages in Mir Ali. Several houses were destroyed in the shelling. According to the sources, the shelling was in retaliation to a remote-controlled bomb attack on security personnel.

At least five volunteers of Aman Lashkar sustained injuries when a bomb exploded in the Shalobar area of Khyber Agency in FATA. An IED was planted on a roadside which exploded. However, no loss of life was reported.

Two security personnel were killed and 11 others injured when a landmine exploded during a search operation in Kanra village under Pandyali tehsil of Mohmand Agency in FATA. SFs with the help of Khasadars and volunteers of a peace Lashkar were conducting the search operation in Kanra village, when the landmine planted by militants went off. Lance Naik Abdul Mehmood and Ziaullah were killed and five security personnel, four Khasadars and two volunteers were injured.

One Frontier Constabulary personnel was killed and another received injuries when militants fired at their vehicle in Zakhakhel Bazaar area in Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency. Officials said that a group of security men was attacked by militants when they were fetching water from a natural spring in the area.

Unidentified militants blew up a Government school in Merikhel village of Akkakhel in Bara. The explosion caused damage to a major portion of the school structure, one of the oldest Government buildings in the area.

Four personnel of the FC were seriously injured when unidentified militants attacked a convoy of the Security Forces on the Thall-Mir Ali Road in North Waziristan Agency of FATA. Sources said a convoy of the Thall Scouts, a wing of the FC, was on its way to Spinwam in Mir Ali subdivision from Thall subdivision in the Hangu District (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) when it was targeted through an IED.

Seven militants were killed and four others were injured in a blast in Jandary Killay in Orakzai Agency of FATA. The sources said that the militants had been using the abandoned house as hideout in Jandary Killay area. Unidentified persons, the sources added, had placed explosive device at the house, which went off at 10 am, leaving seven militants dead and four others injured. The sources said that the house comprising four rooms was destroyed in the blast.

Militants dumped the mutilated body of a purported Afghan spy accused of collaborating on US drone strikes that killed Mullah Nazir on January 2. The body of the man, identified as Asmatullah Kharoti, was found in Wana, the main town of the South Waziristan Agency, which borders Afghanistan. Local officials said he had been shot dead and there were wounds on his neck. Two notes on the body ordered the remains to be left on the roadside until 10am "so that everyone could see the fate of spies", and the second accusing him of being a spy and being responsible for US drone attacks. "He is a spy and was giving information to US and ISAF forces in Afghanistan about our activities," a local official quoted the note as saying. "He is responsible for the killing of five of our senior members, including Mullah Nazir, in drone attacks."

Jet fighters bombarded suspected positions of the TTP in the Kukikhel area of Tirah valley in the night, killing nine people, including six militants.

At least 31 persons were killed when Tariq Afridi faction of TTP militants attacked AI, a pro-Government militants group, in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency in FATA. About 300 Tariq Afridi faction of TTP militants, armed with mortars and RPGs, launched the overnight assault in the Maiden area of Tirah Valley, a maze of valleys on a route from Afghanistan to Peshawar. The AI cadres retaliated, killing 15 TTP militants and capturing eight others, while three villagers, including an elderly woman, were killed in crossfire. TTP militants also killed 13 AI cadres.

The death toll in the ongoing fighting between Tariq Afridi faction of the TTP) and pro-Government militant group AI in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency in FATA climbed to 71. The violence began in Tirah valley three days ago after cadres of the Tariq Afridi faction, who operate in Khyber Agency, captured a building belonging to AI. "The Ansar-ul-Islam group re-took their centre after intense fighting. A senior security official confirmed the approximate death toll and said fighting was ongoing. The area is cut off to journalists and aid workers so it was not possible to confirm the death toll independently. As reported earlier, least 31 persons were killed when TTP militants attacked AI militants on January 26.

A roadside bomb, apparently planted to target a convoy of the Security Forces on Kohat-Hangu road in Utman Khel area in Orakzai Agency, went off. However, the explosion caused no damage or casualty.

With 10 more deaths, the death toll in the fighting between Tariq Afridi faction of the TTP and pro-Government militant group AI in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency in FATA climbed to 81. As reported earlier, 71 persons had died till January 27 in the clashes that erupted on January 25. Due to the volatile situation, thousands of families have been displaced.

13 suspected militants were killed and 16 others were injured when Army warplanes targeted TTP hideouts in Arghanjoo and Mir Qalamkhel area in Mamozai tehsil of Orakzai Agency. Six militant camps and an explosive-laden vehicle were reportedly destroyed in the bombardment. The military offensive during the past few months has cleared Orakzai Agency of up to 90% of its militant presence, security officials said.

At least 24 militants were killed when Army warplanes bombed militant positions in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency in FATA. Officials said the planes attacked targets in Dwa Thoe, Bara Gatt, Wocha Wona and Nakai areas where TTP and LI have their bases or hideouts. Sources said that stores of food and arms were destroyed. A statement issued by Security Forces said militant hideouts were busted during the 24-hour target operation and 24 terrorists, some of them belonging to the TTP and LI, were killed.

Six members of a family were killed when a mortar fell on the house of one Ghani Gul in Sponrhai area of Kukikhel in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency in FATA. Meanwhile, SFs said that curfew would be imposed in the entire Bara subdivision of Khyber Agency from January 31 morning. They made announcements through loudspeakers in most parts of Bara, advising local people to remain inside their houses till next order. The SFs didn't cite any reason for imposition of the indefinite curfew in the entire Bara.

Three soldiers were injured when unidentified militants attacked a military convoy with an IED on Bannu-Miranshah road in Miranshah town NWA. The IED planted on the main road went off when the military convoy was passing through the area. A military vehicle was damaged and three soldiers sustained injuries in the blast.

10 mortar shells fired from across the border in Afghanistan landed in Loli Faqeeran village of Ghulam Khan Area in NWA.

Twelve militants, including two peace committee members, were killed and six militants were injured in clashes in various parts of Tirah valley in Khyber Agency in FATA. The AI claimed it had gained control of 16 TTP centres at Mamozai near Tirah.

Eight volunteers of a peace committee were killed when a mortar shell went off accidentally in a bunker used by volunteers of the Kamarkhel peace committee at Takhtakai when ammunitions were being shifted to another base. Kamarkhel is a neutral tribe and doesn't want to indulge in fighting but recently it has taken up arms to keep Takhtakai from the influence of any militant group. LI has been carrying out sporadic attacks on the Kamarkhel tribesmen to take control of the important location to which the Kamarkhel volunteers are offering resistance. AI wants to push back fighters of LI from Takhtakai area because it is close to Bagh Maidan, the headquarters of AI.

In a clash with Kamarkhel volunteers in the area LI 'commander' Mehar Gul was killed and four of his associates were injured as fierce fighting continued in Takhtakai.

A bomb blast killed two polio vaccination workers in Mali Khel village in Kurram Agency. There has been no claim of responsibility for the killings. "The two-men team was visiting Mali Khel village in upper Kurram tribal region when an improvised explosive device planted along the roadside went off, killing them on the spot," Jawad Ali, in- charge of the campaign in Kurram Agency said.

Eleven members of the Kamarkhel Peace Committee were killed as clashes with LI militants intensified in the Lakai Sar, Madai and Tor Lagad areas of Takhtakai in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency in FATA. The day-long clashes left 11 peace committee members dead and several others injured. However, the peace committee members were able to keep the LI men at bay. The LI men torched a number of houses they had captured in parts of the Takhtakai areas and made bunkers in others.

Six militants were killed when a mortar shell fired by NATO and Afghan troops from across the border hit a bunker in Zeba Ghar area near Angoor Adda, some 60km from Wana, in South Waziristan Agency. Sources said 30 shells had been fired from Macha Dad camp across the border in Afghanistan. One shell hit the bunker, killing six militants and injuring three others. They belonged to Maulvi Nazir fraction of TTP.

The bullet-riddled body of a militant was found in Jandola area of FR Tank. He was identified as Hikmat Bittani, a member of the group headed by 'Commander' Turkistan.

SFs arrested a would-be bomber along with his handler and recovered explosive material during a check-up at Yakaghund Checkpost in Mohmand Agency. The sources said acting on a tip-off, the personnel of the Mohmand Rifles stopped a passenger coach on Yakaghund Checkpost. On thorough search, the law-enforcement agencies arrested a would-be suicide and his handler.

Security officials arrested a terrorism suspect and recovered a cache amount of arms and ammunition during a raid in Shani Khel area under Halemzai tehsil in Mohmand Agency of FATA. During a press conference, Commandant Mohmand Rifles, Colonel Mushtaq Ahmad said a joint operation was conducted by Levies, Khasadars and Mohmand Rifles in Shani Khel. The raid was conducted at the house of Ijaz the alleged mastermind of suicide attack in Yakaghund on January 31. Security officials then arrested Dr Ibrahim, on the information provided by Ijaz on February 3.

As the authorities contemplate officially declaring the troubled Tirah Valley area of Khyber Agency "war-hit zone", more than 2,500 families have been forced to evacuate amid deadly clashes between militant outfits. Outfits including the TTP, AI, LI and the pro-Government peace militia of Qambarkhel have been fighting a bloody turf war in Khyber Agency for 12 days.

Despite repeated attempts, no official of the FATA Disaster Management Authority responded to calls for their comments on the crisis. An official of the PDMA said, however, that after the political agent declares an area war-affected, the Fata authority will send the provincial authority a letter to distribute food and provide other facilities.

Pakistan's ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman, referring to continued drone strikes in FATA, urged the Barrack Obama administration not to cross "red line". Rehman said that drones strikes were "a clear violation of our sovereignty and a violation of international law" that threatened stable relations between the two Governments.

At least 10 militants were killed and several others were injured when jet fighters pounded their hideouts in the TTP stronghold of Mamozai town in Orakzai Agency of FATA. Sources said that the jets targeted militant positions in Arghanjoo and Lando Qamar areas and destroyed four hideouts.

Five persons were killed after six missiles hit a house in Tehsil Spain Warm of North Waziristan Agency.

SFs killed 12 militants in an air raid on militant hideouts in the Mamozai are of Orakzai Agency in FATA. According to sources, five hideouts were destroyed in the attack. Earlier on February 6, 10 suspected militants were killed in a similar raid. It was the fifth such attack on militants this year. According to SFs, the previous four air raids killed around 38 militants, while 11 hideouts were destroyed. However, the exact figures are difficult to verify.

A bomb blast killed 16 persons and injured 27 others in Kalaya, the capital of the Orakzai Agency in FATA. A journalist and one paramilitary personnel were among the dead, said Assistant Political Agent Fazal-i-Qadir. The bomb targeted people from the pro-government Feroz Khel tribe, who have shops in the market, he said. The bomb was planted near the DVD and mobile shop surrounded by small kiosks selling tea and other edibles, he added further.

Following the attack, nine militants were killed after jets bombed militants' hideout in Upper tehsil.

Seven militants were killed and six others injured when the US drones fired six missiles and pounded two separate mud-built houses in Babar area of Ladha subdivision in South Waziristan Agency.

At least five AI militants were killed and four others were injured in clashes with TTP in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency in FATA.

Eight militants were killed and 15 others received injuries as the militants of TTP and AI clashed in Bhuttan area of Tirah valley in Khyber Agency of FATA. The renewed clashes, which started on February 11, continued on February 12 without any letup. Sources said that TTP launched a fresh offensive against AI in Bhuttan area and inflicted losses on it. AI claimed that it had strengthened its hold over two important bunkers in Dwa Stanai area and recaptured Rocket Sangar. Both sides used heavy weapons against each other.

The on-going infighting between the TTP and AI killed 19 more militants from both sides in Drey Stani area of Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency of FATA. Of those 19, 13 were TTP militants and six were affiliated with AI.

A volunteer of a peace committee was killed and more than a dozen houses were set ablaze by militants in Sheen Qamar area of Bara tehsil.

In Barkai area of Storikhel, militants torched the residential compound of a local elder, Malik Almas Khan Storikhel.

The political agent of North Waziristan Agency of FATA submitted complete report of casualties caused by the drone attacks from 2008 to 2012 to the PHC through Deputy Attorney General M Iqbal Mohmand that claimed that around 894 persons, including 48 foreigners, 35 women and 24 children, were killed in the US drone attacks in during the last five years. According to the report, the US drones conducted 147 attacks on various locations in North Waziristan from 2008 to 2012.

An explosion in the village of Hassanzo in Orakzai Agency of FATA killed seven people and wounded 13. In a second attack in the same place, a van carrying civilians was hit by a blast which killed two people and wounded 10.

Eight militants were killed and two hideouts were destroyed in Army air strikes in the Mamozai area of Orakzai Agency in FATA. SFs have been carrying out these air strikes in recent months against TTP militants - killing 250 militants so far, media reported.

10 militants were killed when the jetfighters pounded their hideouts in Jandary Killay, Mir Qalamkhel and others adjoining localities in the TTP-controlled Mamozai tehsil (revenue unit) area in Orakzai Agency of FATA. "Ten militants were killed and four of their hideouts were destroyed in the shelling," an official claimed.

Four soldiers were injured in a bomb explosion in Razmak Town of North Waziristan Agency.

Unidentified militants attacked a convoy of vehicles carrying military equipment bound for NATO operations in Afghanistan, killing two persons, in Landi Kotal town in the Khyber Agency of FATA.

A vehicle carrying NATO supplies to Afghanistan was partially damaged when a bomb planted at a roadside went off at Teddy Bazaar in Jamrud tehsil (revenue unit) of Khyber Agency in FATA.

Another bomb planted nearby was successfully defused by the BDS. Following the incident, Khasadar personnel reached the site and launched a search operation during which they found another bomb weighing eight kilogrammes.

Nine militants were killed and several others injured in shelling and bombing by military jets in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency in FATA. Security sources said that three suspected militant hideouts were bombarded. A huge cache of arms and ammunition was also destroyed in the operation.

At least eight terrorists were killed in air strikes in Upper tehsil of Orakzai Agency.

One civilian was killed when hit by a mortar shell in Takhtakai area of Tirah valley in Khyber Agency of FATA.

SFs arrested over 200 suspected persons during a search operation in various areas of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency. The sources said that the SFs carried out search operation in Gudmalang, Droadda and Baazgarah areas and arrested more than 200 suspected persons and shifted them to nearby Fort Salop FC base for investigation.

The vehicular traffic was disrupted in Haleemzai tehsil of Mohmand Agency in FATA when an improvised explosive device went off on Barokehl-Sultankhel Road.

Fifteen militants and two security personnel were killed in shelling by warplanes on the TTP positions and an encounter between the LI and SFs in Tirah Valley and Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency in FATA.

Sources said the jet fighters bombarded the positions of TTP in Sorkas, Sra Vella and Dwatoy in Kukikhel area in Tirah. At least, 10 militants were killed and eight injured in the air strikes. A vehicle and five sanctuaries of the militants were also destroyed in the aerial attack.

SFs encountered with the LI militants in Nala area during a search operation in various areas of Bara subdivision including Mandikas, Bachi Nehar and Yousaf Talab As a result of crossfire, five militants and two security personnel were killed while 10 soldiers and six militants were injured.

At least seven TTP terrorists were killed when SFs pounded Kukikhel area of Tirah Valley in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency in FATA. Security sources said that the aircraft targeted Kukikhel area and destroyed TTP hideouts.

One FC trooper was killed and six others were injured in a blast at Fort Slope Camp in Khajoori area in Bara tehsil.

In the same Agency, Khasadar Force defused an explosive device planted along the roadside In Jamrud area.

Unidentified assailants shot dead two brothers on Ghundi Road in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency in FATA.

A journalist Malik Mumtaz Khan was shot dead in Miranshah town of North Waziristan Agency.

At least eight militants were killed and 12 suffered injuries as jet fighters pounded militant hideouts in Jendri and Shah Wali villages of Mamozai tehsil in Orakzai Agency of FATA. Sources said jets targeted militant positions in Jendri and Shah Wali villages of Mamozai tehsil at 4:50pm.

Unidentified militants blew up two primary and two middle schools in the Kandharoo area of Safi tehsil in Mohmand Agency. The buildings were empty during the explosions.

Ten militants were killed in an operation by SFs at Lando Qamar, Arghanjoo and Adamkhel areas of the Orakzai Agency in FATA. Two hideouts of the militants were also destroyed.

Seven militants, a 'commander' among them, were killed when PAF jets targeted their hideouts in Sandana and Speen Dhand areas of Sipah area in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency. Independent and official sources said the seven militants belonged to the LI.

SFs had pounded LI positions with heavy artillery in Ghaibi Neeka area of Bara tehsil, injuring a man and a minor girl. The artillery shelling being carried out since March 1 damaged a number of houses and a mosque. Sources said that SFs had positioned tanks and artillery in Mushtari camp and Dari-Lowarrh Kali from where they were pounding LI hideouts and bunkers in Sipah area.

In Shalobar area of Bara, a lieutenant of Mehsud Scouts was injured when unidentified assailants opened fire at him. Security officials said the incident took place during a search operation.

There was no loss of life in a roadside blast in the Mamond tehsil of the Bajaur Agency.

Activists of JUI-S along with tribal leaders held a protest outside the Peshawar Press Club against increasing drone strikes in Waziristan of FATA. JUI-S leader and former legislator, Ikramullah Shahid said that nine drone attacks occurred during Pervez Musharraf's regime from 2002 to 2008, whereas 230 drone strikes have been carried out in Waziristan during the current Government's tenure, killing more than 3,500 innocent people.

A bomb blast injured a polio lady health worker, identified as Sameea Zaib in the Jamrud Civil Hospital of Jamrud District in Khyber Agency of FATA.

Nine militants were killed in a clash with SFs in Mondan area of Mamozai in upper Orakzai Agency of FATA.

Five soldiers were injured in an IED explosion in Frontier Region (FR) Bannu.

Separately, one person was injured in a blast in the Jamrud tehsil (revenue unit) of the Khyber Agency.

Unidentified assailants tortured a polio worker in Landikotal town and warned him and others involved in the anti-polio campaign to quit the campaign or be ready to be killed.

At least 12 militants were killed and several others were injured during an operation by the SFs in different areas of Orakzai Agency of FATA.

Four militants were killed and six others were injured in renewed clashes between TTP and AI in Theerak Sangar and Zeerhak Kandaw areas of Tirah valley in Khyber Agency.

At least 20 militants and a volunteer of peace Lashkar TI were killed in a joint operation carried out by SFs and Zakhakhel tribal Lashkar against the banned LI in various areas of the Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency of FATA. Three hideouts of militants were also destroyed in the military offensive.

Five militants of TTP and three from AI were killed in clashes in Khwajalee Tambu area of Tirah valley.

Three persons were shot dead and another was injured by unidentified assailants in Garigal village of Mamond tehsil in Bajaur Agency.

A US drone strike killed two suspected militants in Degan village of Dattakhel tehsil of North Waziristan Agency of FATA.

A ten-year-old boy was killed and another was injured in a blast at the Asrafkhel link road in Landikotal town of Khyber Agency. During the site inspection, another bomb that was planted near the blast site was recovered and was disposed off by the BDS, sources said. A massive search operation was launched in the area and twenty suspected tribesmen were arrested and sent to the cantonment for interrogation, according to sources.

Two persons were injured when a pickup truck was targeted with an explosive device planted by unidentified militants on roadside near Parao Chinar in lower Kurram Agency.

Three soldiers, including an officer, were killed in a roadside blast in Dogar area of Kurram Agency in FATA.

Several tribal families have crossed over into Afghanistan owing to excessive artillery shelling by the SFs and aerial bombing in parts of Tirah valley of Khyber Agency in FATA. Source said that the people, who were migrating to Afghanistan from Tirah, belonged to Sipah, Malikdinkhel, Akkakhel, Qambarkhel and Kukikhel areas of Khyber Agency.

16 militants were killed and 12 others were injured in fresh clashes between TTP and AI in Maidan area of Tirah valley in Khyber Agency of FATA, tribal sources said.

Twenty militants were killed and another 20 injured as fighting between the TTP and AI outfit continued in the Qambarkhel area of Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency of FATA.

At least five security personnel were severely injured in a remote-controlled blast in the Miranshah area of North Waziristan in FATA.

Ten militants were killed and six others injured when jetfighters pounded their hideouts in Chappar area of Mamozai tehsil in Orakzai Agency of FATA.

Unidentified militants bombed two Government primary schools in Safi tehsil of Mohmand Agency.

Forty six militants, including an Uzbek 'commander', were killed in twin suicide attacks on the TTP in the headquarters of the AI in Bagh area of Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency of FATA.

TTP and LI occupied the Maidan area, the stronghold of pro-Government AI, in Tirah Valley.

Talking to reporters from an undisclosed location, the deputy head of AI, Ezatullah, said that his organisation was intact and would fight from Zakhakhel and Orakzai Agency to defeat the invaders in Maidan.

One security personnel suffered injuries when militants attacked a check post in Sadiqabad area in Bajaur Agency.

SFs arrested at least 11 suspects and recovered explosives and other items used in bomb making during a search operation in Safi tehsil of Mohmand Agency of FATA. SFs recovered at least 100 kilograms of explosives and other item used in bomb making.

Four militants were killed when US drone fired two missiles on a house in Dattakhel tehsil of North Waziristan Agency in FATA.

An armed clash left a militant killed and a security man injured in Dro Adda area of Akkakhel in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency in FATA. Officials said that SFs clashed with a group of militants when the latter attacked a security check post in Dro Adda area. In the firing exchange, a militant was killed and a soldier received injuries.

Unidentified militants blew up a Government school in Meeri Khel area of Akkakhel. Official sources said that militants blew up the girl's school in Misri chowk by planting a huge quantity of explosives inside the building.

Unidentified persons opened fire on a NATO container at Wazir Dhand locality of Jamrud tehsil. Local officials said that a cleaner of the vehicle received minor injuries in the attack.

Prospective candidates of political parties in Hangu District have so far restricted their election meetings to hujras, while some of them have been demanding that elections should be held under the supervision of Army in this volatile District due to threat of TTP attacks.

A suicide bomber rammed a water tanker bomb at a military check post, killing 17 SFs, one civilian and injured 25 others near Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan Agency, in FATA.

SFs arrested 13 suspects and recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition during a search operation in Mohmand area of Mohmand Agency.

The TTP has set up a special death squad to target former President General (retd) Pervez Musharraf upon his arrival, who is expected to land in Karachi on March 24, says a militant video released on March 23. The TTP has also called upon the Baloch insurgents to join hands with the militant outfit to wage a joint-war for implementing Shariah laws in the country.

Two security personnel were killed in a remote-controlled blast in Damadola area of Mamond tehsil in Bajaur Agency of FATA.

More than fifty thousand families have migrated from the Tirah Valley. The Tirah Valley has now become an abode of TTP and LI after they have jointly pushed out the armed fighters affiliated with AI, which is led by Mehboobul Haq.

The candidates for a National Assembly seat in Bara have demanded of the authorities to postpone the upcoming general elections in NA-46 constituency owing to threats from a militant outfit and inability of political administration to devise a foolproof security plan for electioneering.

The Jalozai refugee camp administration has chalked out a new security plan with the help of the DPO for the safety of internally displaced persons (IDPs). The plan includes setting up three security barriers and deploying more police personnel. The UNHCR postponed the registration of IDPs from Tirah Valley at the camp on March 22 following a deadly blast that killed at least 17 people, including a female social worker, and injured 28 others.

The Supreme Court has sought complete report from the FATA secretary regarding the losses of human lives due to terrorist attacks in FATA and PATA since April 12, 2008 to date.

Security Forces killed four Afghan-based militants as the troops repulsed a cross border attack on a security check-point in Nawagal tehsil.

Unidentified militants blew up a filling station in Sadda Bazaar of Kurram Agency in FATA. The sources said unidentified militants placed a bag near the manager's room at the filling station owned by Gul Manan in Sadda Bazaar.

The political administration in Landi Kotal of Khyber Agency has imposed a ban on display of arms and use of indecent language during the election campaign. The decision was taken during a meeting in Landi Kotal that was attended by all the candidates contesting elections from NA-45 constituency of Khyber Agency and Assistant Political Agent Dr Azmat Wazir.

A remote-controlled bomb killing two security personnel patrolling Damadola village of Bajaur Agency, near the border with Afghanistan.

The political administration along with the jirga members destroyed the houses of four militants in the Halemzai tehsil of the Mohmand Agency.

Twelve militants were killed during operation by the SFs in Mamoonzai area of Orakzai Agency in FATA. Three militants' hideouts have also been destroyed in the shelling.

Four soldiers were injuried in a roadside blast in Sheedano Dhand area of lower Kurram Agency.

A man sustained injuries when a hand grenade went off in Amandarra area in Malakand Agency of FATA.

Around 43,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Maidan area of Tirah valley of Khyber Agency of FATA over the past two weeks because of escalation of hostilities between militant groups in the tribal region, the UN Office for OCHA said. According to figures released by the FDMA, around 10 per cent of the IDPs have taken refuge in Kurram Agency and the rest in Hangu, Kohat, Nowshera and Peshawar Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Some of the political parties, like the ANP and PPP-P, are finding it hard to hold big gatherings for electioneering in FATA due to serious threats. These parties are even unable to held corner meetings due to strong hold of non-state actors in FATA.

Eight militants were killed when Army fighter jets bombed suspected militant positions in the Kotkhel area of Orakzai Agency in FATA.

Three militants were killed and some of their hideouts destroyed when fighter jets bombed their positions in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency. Sources said air sorties were conducted at the Ghaibi Neeka area of Sipah and the Nakai area of Malikdinkhel which targeted hideouts of the TTP and LI. Two LI cadres and one TTP cadre were killed in the bombing.

Four militants were killed and five others sustained injuries when militants across the border attacked Bhittai checkpost in Shabak area of Alizai sector in Kurram Agency. Two soldiers were also injured in the attack.

The Governor Shaukatullah Khan said the Government had not contacted militants for holding peaceful elections in FATA. Speaking at a grand jirga (tribal council) during a visit to the Landikotal tehsil of Khyber Agency, he said the Government would utilize all resources to conduct free and fair elections in the tribal region. "There have been no talks with the TTP for elections in the tribal areas," Shaukatullah said. However, he said the Government would welcome any steps taken by tribal jirga for restoration of peace in the FATA.

At least 14 militants, four soldiers and three pro-government volunteers were killed in clashes ensued after the Security Forces launched search operation against the LI in Akkakhel area of Tirah valley in Khyber Agency of FATA. Similarly, backed by the TI, a group of pro-government local militia, the SFs moved from Sheenkamer and Sorghar area, populated by Zakhakhel Afridi tribe, into Akkakhel area where they exchanged heavy fire with the fighters of LI.

The Mullah Nazir faction of TTP assured aspiring candidates that the insurgents would not interfere with the election process in the South Waziristan Agency of FATA. The assurance was made by Mullah Nazir Group 'chief' Salahuddin Ayubi, locally known as Bahawal Khan, in a meeting with over 50 candidates contesting NA-41 (Tribal Area-VI, South Waziristan) or their representatives in Wana, the main town in South Waziristan Agency.

Though he assured the candidates that his group would not interfere in the voting process, he attached some stringent conditions for trouble-free balloting in the constituency. Firstly, the candidates will have to stage public rallies in an open place outside Rustam Bazaar, the main market in the area, due to security concerns. Secondly, candidates with no popular vote bank should better not contest the elections. Thirdly, the candidates have to avoid indecent criticism of their rivals in their speeches. Fourthly, the candidates of three parties - PPP, MQM and ANP - were told about the security threats they might face in the region.

Ten militants were killed and five soldiers injured during the clashes between SFs and LI militant in remote areas of Akkakhel in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency in FATA.

Seven militants were killed when SFs targeted their hideouts with gunship helicopters in Gowak and Mithari areas of Orakzai Agency.

Two tribesmen were killed when their motorcycle struck against a landmine planted along a road in Mir Ali subdivision of North Waziristan Agency.

The business centres remained closed and traffic was off the roads owing to imposition of curfew in North Waziristan Agency. The local people said that the curfew was imposed after an attack on Esha checkpost.

Elsewhere, the SFs repulsed an attack by militants at Nargas checkpost in the outskirts of Bara town. Officials said that militants used rocket launchers, but no one was hurt in the attack.

Thirteen soldiers and an unspecified number of militants were killed during heavy fighting between troops and militants at a flashpoint near the Afghan border in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency in FATA. The clashes signalled a fresh military push in the Tirah valley, where the military has been targeting TTP and LI.

Security sources said that at least 30 soldiers and nearly 100 militants have been killed in fierce fighting over the past four days following a ground offensive launched by the Army. The officials claimed that the Army has successfully seized control of a large portion of the valley from the TTP and their ally, LI. The claims could not be independently verified.

Security Forces claimed to have killed eight militants and five others were injured in shelling through gunship helicopters in Gorak area of Orakzai Agency.

The military authorities said that they had launched a major military operation against the militants in the remote Tirah Valley of the Khyber Agency in FATA in which 110 militants and 23 soldiers had been killed.

A ten-year-old boy was critically injured when he picked up a toy bomb in Alamgudar area of Bara tehsil.

House of a local resident in Shalobar area was badly damaged when a stray mortar fell on the house. Sources said the mortar fired by unidentified men landed at the house of Haji Mohammad Salim, general secretary of Khyber Union, a local political organisation.

Mangal Bagh, the 'chief' of LI has become supreme leader of both the LI and TTP for the Khyber Agency. "The decision to elevate Mangal Bagh to the status of supreme commander for Khyber Agency was taken at a joint Shura (council) of TTP and LI 'commanders'," highly placed Government officials said.

Nine militants were killed and two security personnel injured in a gunbattle in Kago Qamar village of Dabori area in Orakzai Agency in FATA. Sources said a group of militants launched a two-pronged attack on a security post in Kago Qamar village.

19 persons, including nine soldiers, seven militants and two volunteers of TI, a pro-Government armed group, were killed during heavy fighting between troops and militants at a flashpoint near the Afghan border in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency in FATA. Sources said that SFs and volunteers of TI, moved forward into Sipah area and took control of LI strongholds of Sandana and Sheikhmal Khel after heavy fighting which left nine soldiers and seven militants dead. Twelve militants were injured.

A person, identified as Haris Khan was killed in a landmine blast in Manatu area of central Kurram Agency.

The house of a local candidate of the ANP, Munaf Afridi, was attacked in a remote area of Khyber Agency that borders Afghanistan, in FATA. However, there was no casualty reported.

SFs have killed seven militants in the ongoing military operation in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency in the FATA. Two important hideouts of militants have been busted and areas of Kata Kanrai and Sniper Morcha in Sipah area have also been captured.

Four militants were killed by a US drone strike in the Manzarkhel area of Dattakhel town, 35 kilometers west of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan Agency in FATA.

The driver of a NATO container was killed and his assistant received injuries in an attack near Teddi Bazaar in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency.

Nine militants and a soldier were killed in a clash between the SFs and militants in Dabori area of Orakzai Agency in the FATA.

A member of the TI, also known as Zakhakhel tribal Lashkar (militia), was killed in a bomb explosion inside a bunker in Dari area of Tirah valley in Khyber Agency.

A mortar shell fired from unknown location fell on a cloth making factory in Alamgudar area of the Bara tehsil.

Eleven militants and a soldier were killed in clashes at Kago Kamar locality of Dabori area in Orakzai Agency of FATA.

Nine soldiers were killed and eight others injured in a suicide attack on a military vehicle and nearby roadside checkpoint in the Saidgai area of North Waziristan Agency.

Six militants were killed and five others received injuries during a clash with SFs when dozens of militants attacked the Shan Khel Kore checkpost near Mohammad Ali Chowk in Akkakhel of Khyber Agency.

A minor girl was injured when a mortar shell fell on a house in Sanzal Khel area of Akkakhel.

Thousands of persons fled the Akkakhel area and shifted to different localities of Peshawar after receiving threats from banned militant group LI of Khyber Agency.

Nine militants, including five foreigners, were killed in a US drone attack in Bobar Samal area of South Waziristan Agency of FATA.

One person was killed and 20 others were injured when the Pakistani army and Afghan Taliban militants exchanged fire near the Afghanistan border in Miranshah District.

Four persons were killed when gunship helicopters pounded residential areas and suspected militant positions in Mir Ali sub-division of North Waziristan Agency in FATA. The sources said that four people were killed in the shelling and eight others injured.

Five militants were killed in retaliatory action by Security Forces (SFs) when militants try to ambush security personnel in the Dabori area of Orakzai Agency in FATA. Three security personnel were injured in the attack.

Four persons were killed and eight others injured in a rocket attack on an election rally in Wana town of South Waziristan Agency. Unidentified militants fired four rockets at a rally for independent National Assembly (NA) candidate Malik Naseerullah Khan, who is running to represent NA-41, South Waziristan. Naseerullah narrowly escaped without any injury. The TTP threatened anybody who holds or attends election rallies in and around Wana Bazaar, and two days ago the militants "fined" Naseerullah for defying them.

A female suicide bomber blew herself up outside a hospital in a lawless tribal area of northwest Pakistan and killed at least four people and wounded four others, officials said. The attack took place in Khar, the main town of Bajaur in FATA bordering Afghanistan.

A roadside bomb targeting a military convoy killed four Army soldiers and injured four more in Mir Ali town of North Waziristan Agency in FATA.

The TTP execute an Afghan in the Kari Kot village, about 10 kilometers south west of Rustam Bazaar, in Wana town of South Waziristan Agency in FATA. Mai-u-din, belonging to the Zedran tribe of Afghanistan, was brought handcuffed into an open place near the small bazaar of Kari Kot. The militants then shot him dead in front of the public. Mai-u-Din was 'arrested' by the local TTP about a week back.

Abu Ubaidah Abdullah Al Adam, the 'intelligence and internal security chief' of the terrorist group, has was on April 17 in a drone attack in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan Agency in FATA. Even though al Qaeda has not yet issued an official 'martyrdom' statement about the death of Abu Ubaidah Al Adam, there are credible reports in the Western media to suggest that he was killed in an April 17 US drone attack. Two of his close aides - Al Wathiq Billah and Sanafi Al Nasr - have tweeted that Abu Ubaida has been killed in an American drone strike in Pakistan.

A Palestinian national, who was in fact raised in Saudi Arabia, Al Adam had replaced Mohammad Khalil Hasan Al Hakaymah alias Abu Jehad Al Misri, the former 'intelligence chief' of the terrorist group, who was killed in a US drone strike on November 1, 2008, in NWA.

A tribesman died and three others were injured when a roadside landmine exploded near the Sports Complex in Parachinar, the headquarters of Kurram Agency, in FATA. According to the political administration, the blast took place when a tractor-trolley hit a landmine.

The dead bodies of three missing SF personnel were found in Adamkot area of North Waziristan Agency in FATA. Suspected militants had abducted the three troopers from a checkpost in Wacha Bibi area of Dattakhel tehsil in North Waziristan in the night of April 26 and shifted them to an undisclosed location.

A driver was killed when unidentified assailants opened fire on a NATO container in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency. Security officials said that the assailants opened fire on the container coming from Afghanistan, killing the driver.

At least eight militants were killed as jet fighters pounded their hideouts in Dabori area of Orakzai Agency in FATA. Police said the bombing resulted in the destruction of four militant hideouts and the killing of eight militants.

Two security officials were injured as a result of cross-border firing from Afghanistan at a security checkpost in Mohmand Agency.

A candidate of the Qaumi Watan Party, Akbar Khan, who is running for a National Assembly seat (NA 40, North Waziristan Agency), was abducted from an area near Mir Ali of North Waziristan Agency.

Four militants and one security official were killed during a clash when militants tried to ambush a security checkpost in Ladha area of South Waziristan Agency in FATA.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Engineer Shaukatullah approved the long-awaited compensation policy for the terrorism-affected people of FATA. Apart from the introduction of financial assistance criteria for the heirs of martyrs, the policy has also determined the compensation amount to help those whose vehicles, houses, shops, plaza, petrol pumps and CNG stations have been destroyed and animals killed. The Police have clearly defined the process for submission of claims and disbursement of the compensation. It merits a mention here that the policy is the first document of its nature in respect of FATA and to materialise it speedily, special efforts are already underway.

According to the details, all Government employees in FATA will get equal treatment and incentives which are already being granted in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to compensate the real heirs of those who embrace martyrdom, a communiqué said. Apart from this, in FATA Rs 6,000 will be paid for each sheep and goat killed in both natural calamities and terrorism-related incidents, while Rs 20,000 will be provided for each cow, buffalo, horse, donkey and camel lost.

At least eight militants were killed and three hideouts destroyed in Security Forces' action against militants in Upper tehsil, including Qismat Sanga and Sheen Qamar, of Orakzai Agency in FATA.

A local tribal leader Haider Khan was shot dead after unidentified militants barged into his house in the Sanober area of Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency.

A landmine blast was reported in Baizrot area of Orakzai Agency, but no loss of life was reported.

The SFs destroyed two militant hideouts and killed 16 militants after heavy overnight fighting at a flashpoint near the Afghan border in the Tirah Valley in the Khyber Agency of FATA in which two soldiers also died. The fighting took place in the wake of a fresh military push in the Tirah Valley where the military has been targeting TTP and LI militants.

Two SFs personnel were killed and three others, among them a captain, injured when their convoy was hit by a bomb blast on the Razmak-Esha road at Kam Sarobi area near Razmak town of NWA.

The main entrance to the house and adjacent hujra of PTI for NA-40 NWA were damaged in a blast caused by an IED in Mir Ali. Family members of the PTI candidate Engineer Abdul Qayyum Khan said that unidentified persons had planed an IED near the main entrance to his house and hujra at Haiderkhel village in Mir Ali subdivision.

Twenty-three persons were killed and more than 70 others injured in a blast at the election rally of JUI-F candidates at a Madrassa in Sewak village in Kurram Agency of FATA. Along with the local tribesmen, two bodyguards of the JUI-F candidate from NA-38, Munir Orakzai, and six of his close relatives were also injured in the blast.

TTP claimed responsibility for the attack on the JUI-F rally and said Munir Orakzai was the target. It added that the JUI-F party activists weren't a target. TTP 'spokesman' Ehsanullah Ehsan said they had been trying for long to locate and kill Munir Orakzai as he had remained an active member of the coalition Government of the PPP, MQM and ANP. TTP 'chief' Hakimullah Mehsud had mentioned Munir Orakzai's name in a videotape released in the past by his organisation

Afghan forces attacked a border checkpost in Mohmand Agency, injuring four Pakistani soldiers. Security sources said the Gursal checkpost was attacked at around 9am with rockets, mortars and other heavy weapons. Pakistani forces retaliated and the exchange of fire lasted over two hours. This was a second attack from across the border in a week. Two Pakistani troops were injured when Afghan forces attacked the Gursal and two other checkposts four days ago.

At least nine militants were killed and their three hideouts destroyed in an operation by SFs in Mamozai and surrounding areas of Orakzai Agency in FATA. According to details, SFs engaged the suspected militants in Mamozai and surrounding areas with heavy artillery fire. In SFs' bombing three hideouts were destroyed resulting in the death of nine militants injury to several others. Sources said that death toll may rise further as many militants were reported buried under the rubble of destroyed hideouts.

A security official was killed and another injured in a landmine explosion in Shahidano Dhand area of Parachinar in Kurram Agency. Local officials said the two security personnel were on routine patrol in the area when a landmine planted by militants on a village track exploded, killing one of them and injuring the other.

SFs freed 13 persons in Kalaya of Orakzai Agency who were abducted by militants from Peshawar January 31, 2012. The hostages included three WAPDA workers, nine labourers and a Policeman. Sohail Ahmed, one of the freed WAPDA workers, said he and his co-workers were working at a 132kV grid station in the Gula Khan Bagh area of Badhaber when about 30 armed militants abducted them and took them to the Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency. The militants tortured them and forced them to work as slave labour, he added.

An internally displaced person was killed and six others were injured when a bomb planted at the office of NA-41's candidate exploded in Mir Ali tehsil of North Waziristan Agency. An official of the political administration in Mir Ali said that around 3:00pm a huge explosion occurred in Mir Ali Bazaar.

A boy was killed and four others injured when an explosive device went off inside a playground in Rashkai area of Bajaur Agency. Local residents and officials said the blast occurred during the final of a cricket tournament.

Nine militants and three soldiers were killed in a gunfight in Parachamkani area of Kurram Agency in FATA. According to official sources, militants launched an attack on SFs in Mohammad Top area early in the morning, killing three soldiers and injuring four others. The assault was followed by a heavy exchange of fire between the two sides in which nine militants were killed and eight wounded, the sources added. Locals said militants had also abducted four persons.

"More than 1,000 families have left their houses due to disturbance in Parachamkani," said a source at the office of the assistant political agent of central Kurram. The official said 500 families comprising 20,000 individuals had been informally registered with the administration and a large number of displaced people had gone to live with their relatives.

Four persons were killed and 21 others injured in a bomb blast occurred at the Khwaja Jan Chowk in Miranshah bazaar of North Waziristan Agency near the election offices of candidates for the NA-40 seat. Sources said the explosive device placed on a motorcycle parked near the offices was detonated by remote control at about 10am. The election offices belong to the candidates of PML-N, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam. Another, blast took place in Gora Qabristan on the Miranshah-Bannu road.

Five persons sustained injuries in a blast in Uthmankhel bazaar in the Orakzai Agency. The sources said unidentified persons had placed explosives in the grocery store of Zar Maluk in Uthmankhel bazaar, which went off at 5pm.

The SFs recovered two roadside bombs in Ferozkhel area.

The LI asked the people to stay away from the polling stations and threatened to impose fine amounting to PKR 50,000 on those who take part in the polling. In a leaflet circulated in Akkakhel area of Bara tehsil, the LI also threatened "to chop off the thumb" of those who cast their ballots. Tribal sources said the leaflets had been pasted on the walls of shops, mosques and houses in Sanzalkhel, Madakhel and Merikhel areas in Akkakhel.

At least 16 persons were killed in a blast that ripped through a passenger bus in Miranshah town of North Waziristan Agency of FATA. The nature of the blast could not be ascertained immediately.

The Government has formally declared 29 villages in Parachamkani area of Kurram Agency in FATA a conflict zone, where, officials say, Security Forces are gearing up for action against militants. An official source in FATA Secretariat told Dawn that the office of the FATA secretary (law and order) on May 13 had notified 29 villages of Parachamkani as a conflict zone and that notification had been issued to all authorities concerned.

The FDMA in collaboration with the United Nations aid agencies is planning to begin registration of around 5,000 internally displaced families from May 16. Officials said around 6,000 more families would be dislocated from the area in the next few days and the relevant authorities had requested the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to intimate its partners to make all necessary arrangements to provide relief to displaced families.

Unidentified assailants opened fire on NATO supply truck passing through Peshawar near the Afghan border, in the Jamrud area of Khyber Agency in FATA. "Two gunmen on a motorcycle fired at a NATO truck and killed its driver," local official Asmatullah Wazir said.

One Levies personnel was killed when an anti-polio vaccination team was fired upon by unidentified persons in Mamond tehsil in Bajaur Agency of FATA.

A member of the BDS was injured in a roadside bomb explosion in Manzai area of South Waziristan Agency.

Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) militants torched houses of several peace activists and pro-Government elders in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency.

Two security personnel were killed and four others injured when unidentified militants blew up an electricity tower in Dargai area of South Waziristan Agency in FATA.

In the Batkhela area of Dargai, unidentified assailants shot dead a prayer leader. Sources said that the assailants entered the mosque in Dargai in the night and opened fire on its prayer leader Habibullah (33), killing him on the spot.

20 militants and four security personnel, an army captain among them, were killed in a clash in the Zara Mella area of Parachamkani in Kurram Agency of FATA.

Two personnel of Levies Force were injured in a militant attack on a checkpost in Yousafabad area of Khar tehsil in Bajaur Agency.

The BDS averted a possible bid of terrorism by defusing a bomb at Doaba in Orakzai Agency of FATA. Assadullah, in charge BDS, said officials of BDS rushed to the spot and found a roadside bomb concealed in a tin of vegetable oil. The officials diffused it successfully. The bomb was of 10 Kg.

The Army and Paramilitary Forces killed 14 militants and destroyed their three hideouts located in Parachamkani, a central subdivision of Kurram Agency in FATA.

A soldier was injured after militant ambushed a vehicle of Khyber Rifles near Landi Kotal bazaar in Khyber Agency.

The Army and Paramilitary Forces killed 15 militants and destroyed their five hideouts located in Parachamkani area of Kurram Agency in FATA.

A US drone strike killed the deputy 'chief' of the TTP Waliur Rehman, the number two in the TTP, along with at least five other militants in Chashma village near Miranshah town of North Waziristan agency.

A Foreign Office spokesman, in a statement, said, "The Government of Pakistan has expressed serious concerns over the US drone attack that occurred in North Waziristan on May 29." "The Government of Pakistan has consistently maintained that the drone strikes are counter-productive, entail loss of innocent civilian lives, have human rights and humanitarian implications and violate the principles of national sovereignty, territorial integrity and international law."

At least 18 militants were killed and several others were injured when Pakistani jets bombed militant hideouts in Tabay area of central Kurram Agency in FATA.

At least 34 militants and three SFs were killed in gunfight in an area between the tribal Districts of Kurram and Khyber in FATA.

At least 23 suspected militants and two soldiers were killed after clashes in Bara Chamkani area of the Kurram Agency in FATA. Five soldiers were also injured during the shootout with militants. SFs cordoned off the area after the clash.

Two SFs were injured in a remote-controlled IED attack in North Waziristan Agency of FATA. Unidentified miscreants targeted a vehicle of SFs with an IED near the Esha checkpost in Miranshah, which damaged the vehicle and injured two soldiers.

A US drone strike killed seven militants at Shokhel village of North Waziristan District in FATA. The missiles hit a compound in the village that is known as a stronghold of Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked militants. The US drone fired two missiles targeting the militant compound.

35 militants were killed and 15 others injured by SFs during operations in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency in FATA.

Three soldiers were killed and four others were injured in bomb attacks on military convoys in North Waziristan Agency.

Unidentified militants attacked a roadside security checkpoint with rocket-propelled grenades on the Razmak-Miranshah road and killed three soldiers and injured another one.

Six persons were killed when militants attacked three NATO containers in Shagai area of Jamrud tehsil of the Khyber Agency in FATA. Jaish-e-Osama, a militant outfit, claimed responsibility for the attack.

An army officer, identified as Lieutenant Colonel Sajid, was killed in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in the Maidan area of Tirah valley in Khyber Agency of FATA.

Two personnel of Khasadar Force were killed in an attack on a checkpost near Mirali Town in North Waziristan Agency of FATA.

A militant was killed and two others were injured in exchange of fire with Police in Secretary Pul area, of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency of FATA.

After fierce clashes with the militants, the SFs have managed to clear the Maidan area of Tirah valley in Khyber agency. According to ISPR, Maidan area of the valley has been completely cleared. It further said that Pakistani flag has been hoisted at Bagh Markaz of Tirah Valley.

COAS General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said the army would maintain its presence in South Waziristan Agency of FATA until the local people were satisfied with the law and order situation. General Kayani appealed to the IDPs from the war-ravaged South Waziristan Agency to return to their areas, assuring them military support.

Two members of the peace committee were killed and two Levies Force personnel were injuries when the militants attacked a checkpost in Khar, headquarters of Bajaur Agency of FATA.

A Government primary school was blown up in Pandialai tehsil of Mohmand Agency. Officials said militants had planted explosives to the building of Khan Wali Kor School. They said that the number of schools destroyed in militant activities in the agency had risen to 118.

A bomb explosion killed two volunteers of Peace Lashkar, a Pakistani pro-Government militia at Chamarkand town in Bajaur Agency of the FATA. They were killed when an IED went off near them while they were inspecting the site of an earlier IED blast.

One person was killed and five others sustained injuries in a car explosion in Sadda town of Kurram Agency in FATA. "Unknown persons had fixed explosives to the car, which exploded near the Karkhano checkpost when they were on their way back home," official sources added.

A blast took place near the house of one Hakim Khan in Wazirdhand in Jamrud tehsil in Khyber Agency of FATA in the night. The explosion caused a minor damage to the building.

A girl was killed while six others were injured when a toy bomb went off at Lapakai village of Maidan area in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency in FATA.

An explosion killed four volunteers of an Amn Lashkar and three soldiers in Miranshah of North Waziristan Agency in FATA. 15 volunteers and 12 soldiers were also received injuries.

At least 17 suspected militants were killed and two others injured by a US drone which attacked a house in Sirai Darpakhel area near Miranshah in North Waziristan Agency of FATA. Intelligence sources confirmed the death toll, adding that a key militant leader had been targeted whose identity was not known as yet.

A member of Tawheed ul Islam, a pro-government peace militia, was killed in a landmine blast in Zakhakhel Bazaar area of Khyber Agency. Khyber administration officials said the volunteers were on a routine patrol when two of them stepped over a landmine planted along a track. One volunteer was killed on the spot while the other received critical injuries.                                                       

Unidentified assailants shot dead a pro-government tribal elder at Badan area in Mamond tehsil in Bajaur Agency. Malik Gul Farosh Khan, a local peace committee member, was on his way home when he was ambushed at Badan area.

A woman was killed when an explosive device planted in a field went off in border area of Kitkoot. Local officials said the woman (40) was working in the fields when the blast occurred.

The return of thousands of IDPs from Mohammad Khwaja relief camp in Hangu (Hangu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) to Chaper Perozkhel area in Orakzai Agency was postponed at the eleventh hour over threats of terrorist attacks. FATA Disaster Management Authority had made preparations for the return of over 26,000 IDPs to Chaper Perozkhel area from Tuesday (July 2). The next date for the IDPs’ return will be announced later on, according to the relevant officials. The political administration and FDMA had joined hands for the rehabilitation of IDPs from the Mohammad Khwaja relief camp in Hangu to Chaper Perozkhel area in Orakzai Agency after the return of normalcy in the region. Officials said suspected militants had sneaked into Chaper Perozkhel area and therefore, acts of sabotage were imminent.

Following the July 3, 2012, drone strike in NWA of FATA targeting the Haqqani Network, the TTP reiterated its earlier stance that civilian Government had little or no reply to the American drone strikes and therefore there is no use of talking with it. TTP spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan announced that the TTP would take revenge, blaming Pakistani authorities for sharing information with the American CIA on presence of militant leaders. He said that “the political Government was unable to demonstrate its authority or took any bold and independent decisions”. “We would not like to talk to a Government which is unable to exercise powers against the will of security establishment which is still wielding power and calling shots,” he alleged, adding, “We have not only learnt militancy but we also have attained sufficient political tricks and know well how and when should we sit on the negotiation table”.

It was second strike in NWA in two days targeting the Haqqani Network. The TTP claimed that none of the Taliban leaders was killed in the attack which claimed 18 lives. TTP had earlier withdrawn their talk offer after May 29, 2013, missiles attack in SWA of FATA in which TTP’s ‘deputy chief’ Waliur Rehman Mehsud was killed.

TTP said that its militants have increased attacks on SFs to avenge the killing of the Wali-ur-Rehman Mehsud. TTP spokesperson claimed responsibility for the attack on a check post on July 2 that killed six Frontier Constabulary personnel in Urmar area of FR Peshawar, as part of their plan to take revenge. He also claimed injuring 10 more FC personnel but avoided comments on reports that several security men are missing. “We will keep on targeting the security forces during the revenge attacks,” he added.

At least five Security Force personnel were killed and three others injured in a suicide attack on Bowia check post in North Waziristan Agency of FATA. According to the security officials, the suicide bomber crashed an explosive-laden vehicle into the security check post leaving five security officials dead.

Four persons, including three women, sustained injuries when the rockets fired by militants from Kunar province of Afghanistan hit a house in Kaga village in the Mamond tehsil in the Bajaur Agency. The injured were identified as Muhammad, Zarfari Bibi, Yasin Bibi and Ruqiya Bibi.

Government Primary School for Girls in Sirki Kot area of Wana in South Waziristan Agency was blown up by unidentified militants at 3.30am. Explosive devices had been planted in the verandah of the school.

Two persons were killed and three others injured when unidentified assailants opened fire on a passenger van at Bara town of Khyber Agency in FATA. According to political administration, the passenger van was heading towards Akakhel from Bara. The slain persons were identified as Mohammad Khan and Juma Dar, while Abdul Matin, Zar Khan and Noor Said sustain injuries. 

Scores of suspects were arrested as the Police and Security Forces’ joint search and clean-up operation in FR Peshawar entered its second consecutive day. SFs have imposed a curfew in Sambi Khel area of FR Peshawar and no one is allowed to leave their homes. A local elder, requesting anonymity, said: “They have surrounded Sambi Khel village, which is a hub for militants in the area.”

The operation began early July 4-morning with hundreds of troops along with helicopter gunships and heavy police contingents entering Sambi Khel area from Matani. Later in the day, a gunfight erupted between two militants and both Army and Police personnel. The militants and Matani Police Assistant Sub-Inspector Daud Khan were killed in the shoot-out, while Frontier Constabulary Constable Shah Zeb sustained injuries. The operation was launched a day after a Frontier Constabulary check post was attacked on the border of the provincial capital and FR Peshawar. The attack killed six FC men and injured seven.

A ‘commander’ of the Haqqani network and an al Qaeda operative were among the 17 persons killed in drone strike in Sirai Darpakhel area near Miranshah in North Waziristan Agency of FATA. Sources said those killed in the strike included Mullah Akhtar Zadran, a ‘commander’ of the Haqqani network, and Abu Saif Al-Jazeri, an operative of Al Qaeda. Also killed in the strike are said to be two Punjabi militant ‘commanders’ — Rana Ashraf and Naveed Butt. The other 13 victims were ‘foot soldiers’, the sources added.

An offshoot group associated with TTP has come to the fore to avenge the killings in Waziristan by drone attacks. Hitherto known as “Ansarul Mujahideen”, the group has claimed responsibility for attack on Bovia Check post and vowed to make life difficult for the United States and its friends in return for drone attacks.

Abu Baseer said the US and its friends must know that we have hundreds of suicide Fidayeen and they would make life difficult for them.  He said they respect independent journalists but nowadays majority of channels and journalists were supporting US in return for a few dollars.

The Frontier Corps Inspector General Major General Ghayyur Mehmud claimed that all internally displaced families of Tirah will soon return to their homes as Security Forces have cleared the valley of militants. He was speaking at the opening ceremony of cultural and heritage centre at the Khyber Rifles Mess in Landi Kotal.

Unidentified militants demolished the house of a member of peace committee and took away all the household items in Sanzalkhel area of Akkakhel in Khyber Agency of FATA. Sources said that scores of militants riding pick-up trucks entered the house of Siraj Khan in Sanzalkhel area and collected all the household items along with furniture. They destroyed the house by planting explosives in it. Siraj Khan is member of a local peace committee that is assisting Security Forces against militants in the area. The report did not mention about the whereabouts of Siraj Khan.

At least two militants of foreign origin were killed in a US drone strike in Mosaki village near Mir Ali town of North Waziristan Agency in FATA. "The two men, probably foreigners, were passing through Mosaki village in Mir Ali subdivision when the drone fired two missiles and hit them," a Government official in Mir Ali said.

Pakistan Air Force jet fighters struck the militants hideous in Akakhel area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency of FATA destroying at least three of their secret bases while seven militants were killed and injured many others. Senior military official confirmed that air strikes had taken place "somewhere between Orakzai and Khyber".

Two persons killed in US drone attack in Mosaki village near Mir Ali town of North Waziristan Agency, were identified as two militants of foreign origin. "The two men, probably Arab nationals, were passing through Mosaki village when the drone fired two missiles and hit them," said the official. Their identities were not clear. Another security source said they were foreign militants of Turkmen origin.

Police arrested 11 suspected persons and destroyed six hideouts of the militants in the Frontier Region Peshawar. Talking to reporters, Deputy Superintendent of Police Izhar Khan said that Elite Police Force and Nowshera Police launched midnight operation in Jaroba, Sheikh Babar Baba forest, Jabba Khushk, Jabba Tar and other areas. He said that the Police also raided the hideouts of two proclaimed offenders Shamsul Qamar and Mamraiz. He said the Police arrested Fahad, Salar, Zulfiqar, Namdar Mamraiz and recovered a cache arms and ammunition from the hideouts.

Mullah Nazir faction of TTP banned the use of "tight or thin" clothes both for men and women in the holy month of Ramzan and warned of one month imprisonment for not fasting in SWA. The Ramzan code of conduct guidelines was issued in a pamphlet after the Mullah Nazir Taliban Group held a Shura (council) meeting in Wana headquarters of SWA. Tight or thin clothes have been banned for both men and women during the holy month, the pamphlet stated. "We warn the shopkeepers and tailors with severe punishments (for violating the rule). Fine up to PKR 50,000 would be imposed on those found guilty," the pamphlet read.

Two members of a peace committee were killed and six injured in exchange of fire in Tirah valley area of Landi Kotal tehsil in Khyber Agency of FATA. Sources in the area said some members of the peace committee in Bagh Maidan were opposed to the command of Meenar Khan alias Meenari.

Unidentified militants shot dead Malik Yarzaman Khan, a member of Salarzai Peace Committee, in Singery area of Salarzai tehsil in Bajaur Agency.

A cadre of an unspecified outfit was killed by a volunteer of a local peace committee in Nawgazee Bara area of Shalobar in Bara tehsil.

Three members of anti-militants peace committee were killed when a remote controlled bomb went off in Badan area of Mamond tehsil in Bajaur Agency of FATA. Local people and officials said that two peace volunteers were also injured in the blast.

Two soldiers were killed and four others received injuries when militants attacked them in Kamar area. Sources said that militants attacked a vehicle of the SFs with automatic weapons when the Dir Scouts soldiers were patrolling the area in the night.

At least six militants were killed and five others injured in SFs' operation in Akkakhel area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency of FATA. The SFs conducted operation against militants by gunship helicopters.

Two FC personnel were killed in a roadside IED blast in Akkakhel area. According to FC officials, the patrolling party was hit by a roadside IED in the area, killing two FC personnel on the spot.

NATO aircrafts continued violation of Pakistani airspace, third time in a week. SFs sources said NATO fighter jets entered Torkham border area and continued flight for 10 minutes. It was third time NATO aircrafts entered Pakistani areas in three days.

A pamphlet highlighting punishments and orders for the month of Ramazan was issued by the TTP in Wana area of South Waziristan Agency. The pamphlet states the orders and punishments were unanimously decided upon in a Shura meeting of the Mullah Nazir faction of TTP.

At least 28 militants and six SFs were killed during clashes in Khyber Agency in the FATA.

SFs killed 10 militants in Akkakhel area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency and destroyed their two hideouts. Two SFs were also killed during the clashes.

18 militants were killed during fighting in Khurmatang area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency where PAF fighter jets pounded militant compounds and razed two hideouts to the ground. Four SFs were also killed during the battle.

The dead bodies of 20 suspected militants were recovered from the Khurmatang area of Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency in the FATA. Assistant Political Agent Bara Tehsil Nasir Khan said that the suspected militants were killed in the Khurmatang area of Bara on the border of Frontier Region Dara Adamkhel. Codenamed Khyber-2, the operation involving helicopter gunships and Frontier Corps ground troops was launched against the TTP hideouts in the Zawa and Khurmatang areas of Akkakhel in Bara on July 19.

One child was killed and five others were injured in the night when a mortar shell appearing to be a toy exploded in the Nasirabad Kausar area of Khar in Bajaur Agency when the children were playing with it.

At least 48 persons were killed and 100 others were injured in a coordinated twin suicide attacks at Parachinar in the Kurram Agency of FATA. Suicide bombers on motorcycles blew themselves up within a minute of each other outside an Imambargah in Parachinar bazaar. "One suicide bomber blew himself up first in one corner of the bazaar and a minute later the second bomber carried out the attack in another corner, causing widespread destruction," an unnamed Government official said. Ansarul Mujahideen, a sub-network of the TTP, claimed responsibility for the attack. The spokesman of AM, Abu Baseer, saying that the Shia community members were the target, claimed, "We have planned more similar attacks against the Shia community in Pakistan to seek revenge of the brutalities of Shia on Sunni Muslims in Syria and Iraq."

Two persons were killed and seven others were injured in an IED attack targeting a double-cabin pickup vehicle in the Kharpati area of Kurram Agency.

A child was killed and four others were injured when a mortar shell exploded in the Kosar village of Khar tehsil in Bajaur Agency.

Eight militants were killed when a US drone fired two missiles at a house in the Shawal valley of the North Waziristan Agency in FATA. Tribal sources said the drone hit a three-room structure where some militants, were having an Iftar dinner. There was also speculation that four of the slain people were foreign fighters.

One person died and two injured in a bomb blast in Pawar Tungi area of Parachinar in Kurram Agency. According to the political administration of the area, a vehicles travelling to Pawar Tungi from Parachinar in Upper Kurram near Pak-Afghan border was severely damaged by the roadside bomb blast.

Residents of Parachinar held a protest against July 26's bomb blast in which 60 persons lost their lives and 180 were injured.

A FC soldier sustained injuries when militants attacked a security post at Khuga Khel in the Landikotal area of Khyber Agency in FATA. Sources said that the militants, equipped with rocket launchers and other weapons, attacked the FC post.

Reacting to a TTP pamphlet asking men to stop wearing tight clothing, Sher Muhammad Khan, head of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan's KP chapter, said The TTP have no right to dictate to others in such a way. "It is the prime duty of the government, not the militants, to implement laws," he said.

Two rival groups in the Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency have entered a secret deal for what they call restoration of peace in the Tirah and Bara-Kajorai areas of Khyber Agency in FATA. Sources privy to the clandestine negotiations between Amr Bil Maroof wa Nahi Anil Munkir and Khujalkhel sub-tribe of Bar Qambarkhel said that both the groups agreed on a verbal peace deal. The talks were held at the residence of Haji Mohammad, leader of Khujalkhel tribe, in the Bara Qambarkhel area few days ago. Haji Niaz Gul is the leaders of the Amr Bil Maroof.

A drone strike in Shawal valley of North Waziristan Agency of FATA on July 28 killed three al Qaeda operatives who ran a training camp in neighbouring Afghanistan to prepare militants for attacks, including July 29's jail break in Dera Ismail Khan, an unnamed TTP 'commander' said. The 'commander' said that those killed in the strike included three al Qaeda training experts who had crossed the border from Afghanistan to look at ways of setting up a similar camp on Pakistani territory. The TTP source identified the three as Abu Rashid from Saudi Arabia, Muhammad Ilyas Kuwaiti from Kuwait and Muhammad Sajid Yamani from Yemen.

According to TTP sources Shahbaz Taseer, the son of slain Governor of Punjab Salman Taseer, was killed in a drone attack in Shawal valley of the North Waziristan Agency in FATA in 2012. Shahbaz Taseer was abducted from Lahore District of Punjab on August 26, 2011.

They further claimed that Shahbaz was buried in the Shawal area on the same day and the Jirga that was making efforts to get Shahbaz released also returned to their hometown in sheer disappointment. The sources confirmed that the TTP are now shifting the abductees to the areas where chances of drone attacks are at higher possibility to use them as human shields.

The Political Administration in militancy-hit Bara area of Khyber Agency in FATA decided to reopen several roads in Bara subdivision, almost four years after they were initially shut down in the wake of a military offensive against extremist militants. Motahir Zeb, Political Agent in Khyber agency said that the Administration had decided to open some areas as, he claims, the situation has vastly improved since the successful Bara Khurmatang military operation. SFs had launched a major offensive in September 2009 to expel the outlawed LI and to restore the writ of the State in the Bara region.

Unidentified militants blew up a Government girls' primary school in the Rashkai area of Khar tehsil in the Bajaur Agency of FATA in the night. Though the school building was completely destroyed, no casualty was reported in the explosion.

A pro-Government tribal elder was shot dead by unidentified assailants in the Masozai area of Kurram Agency in FATA. Khan was also a member of the village defence committee and took part in a number of assaults against militants.

The residents of the Lashora village in Bajaur Agency of FATA foiled a bid to blow up an under-construction school. The sources said the militants hurled a hand-grenade into an under-construction government school for boys in the Lashora village at night. Following the explosion, the watchman opened fire on the militants from inside the building. Hearing the gunshots, the residents and members of the peace committee also reached the spot and the militants managed to escape. At least 110 schools have been blown up in the Bajaur Agency so far.

Peshawar Corps Commander Lieutenant General Khalid Rabbani announced that SFs, along with the help of tribesmen, had eliminated militants from Bajaur Agency (FATA) and that the region's borders have now been secured. Rabbani was addressing soldiers during a visit to the border areas of Nawagai tehsil and thanked them and the locals for restoring the Government's writ, adding that the residents of the agency were the "most loyal" and "peace loving" of the country.

A school student was among two people killed in the mine blasts in different villages of the Kurram Agency in FATA. The sources said the first incident was reported from Shakh village where a car carrying three people hit an anti-personnel mine planted by unidentified militants. One student was killed while another two persons sustained injuries. The second mine blast occurred in the border village of Pewaar. The victim was identified as 55 year-old shepherd, Asghar Ali. The third terror act was witnessed in the Baghdi village where the victim stepped on a mine planted on the boundary of Dilasa village.

The residence of a journalist, Zafar Wazir, was destroyed when a bomb planted by unidentified militants exploded in the Dabkot area of Wana, headquarters of South Waziristan Agency. The official informed unidentified militants had planted a high-intensity bomb outside.

The FC IG Major General Ghayur Mehmood Khan termed Mohmand Agency the most peaceful region of the FATA. "Mohmand Agency is cleared of militants and the nation cannot forget their sacrifices," he said.

Levis Forces arrested two suspects, identified as Bakht Zaman and Haider Zaman, and averted a bid of arms smuggling by recovering 40 mortar shells from a vehicle on Alizai Road in Lower Kurram Agency. Administration also arrested two persons on the spot.

Unidentified assailants killed a tribal elder, identified as Ajab Khan, at Damadola area of Mamoond tehsil of Bajaur Agency.

A pro-al Qaeda 'commander' of TTP, identified as Ghulam Jan, his uncle, Juma Khan, and three of his close aides Mir Gul, Asmatullah and Kharote were killed in roadside bomb explosion targeting his vehicle in Birmal tehsil in South Waziristan Agency. Jan was believed to be harbouring foreign Uzebk, Tajik and Central Asian militants and was earlier in 2007 ousted from the area by the pro-government Mullah Nazir group.

Punjab Chapter of TTP welcomed a call for dialogue by PM Nawaz Sharif with extremists. PM Nawaz Sharif made the offer to extremists on August 19, 2013. "We welcome the offer of talks by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif," TTP Punjab 'chief' Ismatullah Muawiya said in a statement distributed in Wana town of South Waziristan Agency of FATA.

SFs arrested a suspect and seized 12 tonnes of explosives during a raid in the Shakas area of Jamrud tehsil in the Khyber Agency.

Three soldiers and a civilian were injured when an explosion took place while transporting the explosives.

At least four TTP militants and two soldiers were killed while nine soldiers were injured when the militants attacked on a SFs camp in Sara Rogh area of South Waziristan Agency in FATA. Security personnel engaged in retaliatory firing killing three attackers whereas the fourth militant detonated a suicide vest that he was wearing. TTP spokesperson Shaidullah Shahid claimed responsibility for the attack.

The tribesmen of Orakzai Agency in FATA abducted eight people from Ublan Afghan refugee camp in Kohat District for trespassing on their area. Police said that the kidnapped persons had entered the area of Bezote tribe of Orakzai Agency to collect stones for construction of houses. Four of the kidnapped men were identified as Basharullah, Qismatullah, Sawab Khan and Raeed Khan. The names of remaining four men could not be ascertained. The Bezote tribe had banned entry of shepherds and labourers for taking soil, stones and wood from their area.

A US drone killed at least four militants in a missile strike targeting a compound in Heso Khel village of North Waziristan Agency.

At least nine soldiers were killed and as many injured in a bomb attack on a military convoy in the Boya area of North Waziristan Agency in FATA. Ansarul Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attack.

TTP militants raided the house of sacked TTP Punjab chapter 'chief' Asmatullah Muawiya in the suburbs of Miranshah.

Suspected militants fired a rocket at Gosh check post on Miranshah-Mir Ali Road. The rocket damaged the check post but did not cause any casualties, a security official said.

Army cleared Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency of FATA of the TTP militants and restored the Government's writ after a successful operation that killed 104 militants and injured 64 others. At least eight soldiers, including an officer, were lost during the operation. Operational Commander Major General Humayun Aziz said the militants have fled to Afghanistan to avoid arrest or being killed by the forces. Foreign militants of Uzbek origin have also been killed in the operation that continued for 22 days, starting on May 28 and culminating on June 20, he added. The operation was conducted in 99 villages of Maidan and Bagh. The militants have burnt 90 percent of houses in both the areas, he said, adding that initially Army had reports of the presence of 1,000 to 1,500 militants in these areas but during the course of fighting they were found to be no more than 500.

Major General Humayun Aziz further said that TTP militants associated with different outfits from Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Bajaur, Mohmand and Orakzai agencies of FATA had taken shelter in these areas. The militants had occupied hilltops in the area and continued to fire at the forces from their positions which have now been captured. General Aziz said that 40,000 persons were dislocated due to operation in Tirah valley.

All public and private schools at Miranshah in North Waziristan Agency of FATA have reopened after successful negotiations between the TTP and local administration. As per media reports, students have started going to school again after a gap of four months and 20 days. Local TTP had imposed the ban on children going to school after a blast occurred on a checkpost in Miranshah on May 12, 2013.

At least six suspected militants were killed in a US drone attack in the Ghulam Khan tehsil of North Waziristan Agency in FATA in the wee hours. According to sources, the US drone targeting a house located in the area fired two missiles.

The second-in-command of the Haqqani Network, Mullah Sangeen Zadran (45), was among those killed in the September 6, 2013 US drone attack in North Waziristan Agency of FATA. While talking to the media, a local security official confirmed Zadran was killed in the drone strike along with five other suspected militants. Seven others, he added, were injured in the attack.

Zadran, hailed from the Zadran tribe in Paktika province of Afghanistan. He was a popular leader among militants and played an influential role in bringing different banned outfits, including the TTP, al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban, together. In August 2011, the US State Department added Zadran to its list of designated global terrorists.

Clashes between the peace committee and militants in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency in FATA killed five committee members while militants have abducted several others.

A militant was killed and two security officials injured in a fire fight and bomb blast in Kalingar SFs check post in Miranshah, headquarters of the North Waziristan Agency. More than six militants attacked Kalingar security forces check post. One militant was killed while his accomplices escaped, a security forces official said.

SFs spotted a bomb planted on Miranshah-Ghulam Khan Road and called the BDS to defuse it. During defusing process, the bomb detonated and severely injured two security personnel.

After the explosion, SFs backed by gunship helicopters launched a search operation on the outskirts of Miranshah however, no one was arrested. During their patrol on Datta Khel-Miranshah Road, SFs discovered another IED near Amin check post which was successfully defused.

Five tribesmen were abducted by unidentified militants in Para Chamkani of Kurram Agency. The tribesmen were chopping trees when the incident is said to have taken place. Central Kurram APA Naeem Khan said the five men had gone to the mountainous area to cut wood September 6 evening and were abducted by militants on the way back.

Militants beheaded three members of a peace committee and abducted four other members in the Landi Kotal area of Khyber Agency in FATA.

A leader of the Bara Aman Lashkar was killed from the Jalozai Camp by unidentified militants. The leader, Mirza, was returning to Jalozai internally displaced peoples' camp from market when unidentified motorcyclists opened fire at him.

Unidentified persons killed a school watchman in Halimzai tehsil of Mohmand Agency in the night. The sources said watchman Usman Khan, brother of local journalist Noor Muhammad Mohmand, was on duty at the Government Primary School in Malik Ajan Killay when unidentified persons forced their entry into the school at night and shot him dead. His bullet-riddled body was found dumped in a seasonal stream next day.

SFs and the TTP swapped prisoners in SWA of FATA as a 'confidence-building measure' ahead of formal peace negotiations. According to sources, six TTP prisoners were handed over in exchange for two security personnel in Shoyee Khel area of Shawal in SWA.

ISPR denied the report. An official said no swap of prisoners had taken place and the report in this regard was just a rumour.

Unidentified militants destroyed a NATO vehicle in the Sado Khel area of Landi Kotal in Khyber Agency of FATA. However, no causalities were reported. Sources from the political administration said unidentified militants attacked a truck carrying the NATO military vehicle. Later on, the attackers burned the truck, which severely damaged the NATO vehicle. After the incident, the attackers and the driver and cleaner of the truck fled.

BDS defused a 12-kilogramme bomb planted on the roadside near Dandar area in the Khurram Agency.

A bomb explosion killed two members of a pro-government militia and wounded four others during an archaeological dig on the Afghanistan border in Darra area, 30 kilometers northeast of Khar, the main town of Bajaur Agency in FATA. "About a dozen members of the local peace committee were digging at an excavation site when a remote controlled bomb went off, killing two members and wounding four others," senior local administration official Sardar Yousuf said.

Eight officials of Gomal Zam Dam Project in South Waziristan Agency, who were abducted two years ago, were released unconditionally by their abductors. The eight men were handed over to the local administration on the border of South and North Waziristan. The officials were kidnapped on August 15, 2012, while they were travelling to Tank from the dam site. The released men included Sub-Divisional Officer Shahid Ali Khan, Sub-Engineer Sanaullah, four security personnel and two other staffers. Tribal elders in South Waziristan have played an important role in securing the release of these officials, sources said.

Two soldiers were killed and three others sustained injuries in an explosion in the Miranshah town of North Waziristan Agency in FATA.

A Government-run school was partially damaged when a rocket fired by suspected militants hit the school at Janikhel in the FR Bannu. No casualty was reported in the incident.

The political administration distributed compensation amount among the victims of the suicide blast in the Parachinar town of Kurram Agency. Political Agent Riaz Mehsud distributed cheques worth PKR 0.3 million among the families of the 44 persons who were killed in a blast in Parachinar town on July 26. Cheques for PKR 0.1 million were also distributed among 105 persons who were injured in the blast. The official said the injured were provided free treatment at the public sector hospitals in Peshawar.

The authorities suspended repatriation of displaced Bar Qambarkhel tribal people to Tirah valley in Khyber Agency of FATA after rival factions of the tribe failed to agree on formation of an impartial peace body. Assistant Political Agent Mohammad Nasir said that he had held a jirga with elders of three sub-tribes of Bar Qambarkhel at Kalaya in Orakzai Agency a day before Fata Disaster Management Authority announced return plan for all internally displaced families of Tirah valley. The jirga remained inconclusive as some misunderstanding regarding formation of a Qaumi Sareshtha (tribal peace committee) existed between rival groups of Bar Qambarkhel tribe owing to which their repatriation was put on hold for the time being, he added.

Political administration's officials recovered 35 shells of artillery from a vehicle near Pak-Afghan border in Kurram Agency of FATA and arrested two accused. Kurram Agency Political Agent Riaz Khan Mehsud told the media that 35 shells of artillery were seized from a vehicle near Pak-Afghan border that was being smuggled to Kurram Agency for subversive activities, adding that two accused riding the vehicle were arrested.

The three doctors, who were released by TTP, were reportedly released in North Waziristan Agency of FATA. The doctors were identified as Nasrullah Ghilzai, Muhammad Anwer Shabozai and Ayaz Ahmed. According to details, they had been kidnapped from the Loralai District of Balochistan and taken to North Waziristan Agency. "After successful negotiations with the kidnappers, the doctors were released near Khajori area of Mir Ali tehsil and handed over to the political administration officials of FR Bannu, who shifted them to the Bannu Circuit House," the official said.Earleir, it was reprote dthat the doctors had been arrested from Zhob District.

Over PKR 35 million was paid to TTP militants for their release. The Government officials had claimed that the doctors were freed without payment of ransom to the kidnappers. "There is no truth in the officials' claim that the doctors have been freed after successful negotiations between local tribal elders and the militants and that no ransom amount was paid to the kidnappers," the sources said, adding that the ransom amount of over PKR 35 million had been arranged by the doctors' relatives and friends.

At least six suspected militants were killed and three others were injured in a US drone strike on a militant compound in Shawal area of North Waziristan Agency in FATA. "US drones fired four missiles into a militant compound. At least six militants were killed and three others were wounded," an unnamed security official said. The officials said the identities of those killed were not yet clear.

Three militant commanders, including a spokesperson for LI, were killed when the IED they were making exploded in LI Markaz in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency. LI 'spokesperson' Younas and commanders Ghufran and Abu Darda of Tariq Afridi faction of TTP were killed in the explosion.

The tribal elders from the FATA asked the Government to take them into confidence on dialogue process with the TTP. Speaking at a news conference at Peshawar, patron-in-chief of the FATA Grand Alliance Malik Khan Marjan said the Government should consult the tribal elders before initiating talks with the TTP if it wanted to make the peace process meaningful. Flanked by the elders from South Waziristan Attaullah, Niaz Mohammad, Mir Saman, Khan Zada from Mohmand Agency, Khaista Khan of Frontier Region Kohat and Noor Zaman, he said the Government was going to initiate dialogue process after consultation of political parties, which he called a welcoming step but demanded the tribal consultative "Jirga" must be consulted before holding talks with TTP.

Mortar shells fired from Afghanistan hit a border Bange Dar village in North Waziristan Agency of FATA, killing two civilians. Two unnamed officials said that six mortar shells fired from the eastern Afghan province of Khost landed in Bange Dar village. All the victims were from same family.

Three persons were killed and seven others were injured in a militant attack on Gandau dam in the Halimzai area of Mohmand Agency in FATA. The dam also got damaged during the attack. The 'spokesman' for TTP Mohmand Agency, Umar Khalid Khurasani, in a statement claimed to have killed three persons, including two engineers and the contractor, and abducted two other persons.

A US drone strike killed at least six suspected militants in the Dargamandi area, seven kilometres north of Miranshah, the headquarters of the NWA, in FATA. "Four US drones had been circling a militant compound around 11am," a security official said. "One of them launched two missiles at the target, killing six militants and injuring three others," he added. According to the official, the suspected militants belonged to the Qari Abbas faction of the Punjab chapter of TTP.

US drones fired missiles at a residential compound in Char Khel area of Boya in NWA near Afghan border, killing at least three suspected militants and injuring another one. Sources said that four drones were still hovering over the area. Identities of the deceased were not known.

A Levies official, escorting an anti-polio team in the Mamond area of Bajaur Agency in FATA, sustained injures in an IED explosion.

Unidentified militants ambushed the vehicle of Orakzai Agency Political Agent Mehmood Aslam, injuring a levies official in Feroz Khel area of Orakzai Agency in FATA. The PA said that he came out of his office around 10:30am and was on his way to Feroz Khel from Utman Khel when unidentified militants sprayed his vehicle with bullets. Farman Khan, a levies official working as a guard for the PA, was injured in the attack.

The journalist, Lal Wazir, who was abducted by unidentified militants from Azam Warsak town of South Waziristan Agency on October 3, was released by his captors. Lal Wazir (38), who works for a local newspaper Azam Warsak, was taken from a shop by six masked militants. Lal Wazir also works for an Islamabad-based think tank specialising in tribal affairs, the FATA Research Centre.

Three persons were injured in two separate blasts in Kurram Agency of FATA. The sources said one blast took place in Boshera Killay area where unidentified militants had placed explosives outside the house of one Rehman Ali, whose son Hidayat Ali suffered wounds in the blast. Another blast occurred in Boshera Jauzak village, where too explosives had been planted next to the wall of a house. Two persons identified as Suleman and Zaman sustained injuries in the explosion.

The Political Agent of Khyber Agency (FATA) refused to conduct fresh trial into the case of Dr Shakil Afridi accused of colluding with LI and its chief Mangal Bagh. Samiullah Afridi and Qamar Nadeem Afridi, counsels for Dr Shakil Afridi, said that Political Agent of the Khyber Agency Mutahir Zeb had informed them that he was not going to conduct fresh trial into the case of Dr Afridi.

A suicide bomber drove a car filled with explosives into a military convoy, killing at least two soldiers in the Wana town of South Waziristan Agency in FATA. The bomber crashed his white Toyota Corolla into a vehicle travelling in a military convoy in Wana. "At least two security forces personnel have embraced martyrdom and two others were wounded," a senior security official said.

Two children were severely injured in two separate landmine explosions in Kurram Agency located in the FATA of Pakistan. The first incident took place in the Tri-Mangal area at 9 am where a child lost a leg when he stepped on a landmine. Around half an hour later, another child became a victim of another landmine in the Gobazna Road area.

Although the scourge of militancy has resulted in the destruction of 58,312 houses in three tribal Agencies of FATA, yet the question about compensation to the affected families is still unanswered. A baseline survey conducted by FDMA in South Waziristan, Orakzai and Kurram Agencies shows that reconstruction of the damaged private houses requires approximately PKR 17 billion. The FDMA has conducted door-to-door survey to assess damage in the militancy-stricken areas of the three agencies. An official said that FDMA had approached the Federal Government and USAID to provide funds for the housing compensation project in three tribal agencies.

The Federal Government, USAID and other foreign donor agencies had paid compensation for the damaged houses in Swat, Bajaur Agency and parts of Mohmand Agency at the rate of PKR 400,000 for fully damaged and PKR 160,000 for partially damaged house. "Like Swat, Bajaur and Mohmand, the government is bound to pay housing compensation to the people in these three agencies," said another senior official.

Peace was restored in Bajaur Agency but militants could still pose a threat in the border areas, said Political Agent Abdul Jabar Shah at Khar, the headquterer of Bajaur Agency in FATA. Addressing a jirga of Mandal tribe, he said that normalcy returned to the region after elimination of terrorists, however, durable peace would need some time. The tribal elders, members of peace committees and senior officials attended the jirga. The elders of Mandal tribe assured the local administration of their support in maintaining writ of the Government in the region. "There are still threats from militants in the areas along the Afghan border," the political agent told the jirga. He urged the tribal elders to realise the situation and remain alert to face challenges because it was responsibility of every citizen to defend the area against anti-state elements.

Three rockets fired from Afghanistan into the Sarakai checkpost under Mamond tehsil in Bajaur Agency of FATA injured two FC personnel. Umer Said Khan, the political administration officer of the Mamond tehsil, confirmed the attack saying militants had fired rockets from the Afghan side on Sarakai village but was unable to cause any human or material loss as the rockets had missed the residential areas.

One soldier was killed and three others were injured in a blast near the Afghan border of Miranshah, the head quarter of North Waziristan Agency in FATA.

A bomb killed five Pakistani soldiers in a village near the Afghan border in the South Waziristan Agency of FATA. "Number of martyred soldiers due to IED explosion in South Waziristan has raised up to five," a senior security official said.

A drone fired missiles at a room and vehicle in the Miranshah Bazaar of North Waziristan Agency, killing at least three persons.

A private school teacher was shot dead in Ghundi area of Jamrud in Khyber Agency. The bullet-riddled body of Qasim Khan was found dumped.

Three persons sustained injuries when an explosive device went off in a bargain centre of vehicles in Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency in FATA. The sources said unidentified persons had placed an explosive device on the rooftop of the bargain centre of tribal elder Malik Taj and triggered the explosion with a remote-control. Three persons Siraj, Fazle Rehman and Tariq sustained injuries in the blast.

The authorities claimed to have arrested a most-wanted kidnaper belonging to Afghanistan at Torkham border of Khyber Agency. The Khasadar Force personnel raided a general store at Torkham border's bazaar and arrested an Afghan national Abdul Malik (42), official of the political administration, Miraj, said. He said Abdul Malik was allegedly involved in several kidnapping for ransom cases who was wanted to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police.

Hakimullah Mehsud, the 'chief' of the TTP, was killed in a US drone strike in Dandy Darpakhel area, five kilometers (three miles) north of Miranshah, the main town of NWA in FATA. Intelligence officials said Hakimullah was leaving from a meeting at a mosque in Dandy Darpakhel area when the drone targeted their vehicle. Five militants, including Abdullah Bahar Mehsud and Tariq Mehsud, both key militant commanders and close aides of the TTP chief, were also killed with two others injured in the drone strike, multiple sources confirmed.

Hakimullah Mehsud along with other militants killed in the drone strike, was buried in NWA. Sources said that besides Hakimullah Mehsud, his uncle, driver and other aides buried at different places NWA.

Unidentified militants launched three rocket attacks at a camp of SFs in Miranshah, the main town of NWA in FATA. According to military sources, the rocket attacks were carried out at 1 am in the morning. However, no loss of life or damage was reported.

While the Government is preparing a roadmap for peace talks with militants, a faction of TTP asked people living near Miranshah to move their families to safe areas by November 1. The Shura Mujahideen North Waziristan, led by Commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur, also directed shopkeepers in Miranshah town to shift their expensive goods to other areas.

More than 50,000 IDPs have so far returned to their homes in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency in FATA as the first phase of the repatriation process is about to complete. FDMA, which was tasked to supervise the return of over 17,000 registered families to Tirah, said in a daily report that 12,024 families comprising 53,951 individuals left Durrani camp in Kurram Agency and Jarma transit point near Kohat for their respective localities till November 4. FDMA had first fixed October 15 as the final date for the completion of first phase of the return process, started on September 15. The date was later extended to November 5 owing to the eagerness shown by majority of the displaced families to go back to their homes. The return process of all Tirah displaced families would be completed in two phases. The second phase of the return process will be started on March 1. According to official figures, 17,140 families of Bar Qambarkhel, Malikdinkhel, Shalobar, Zakhakhel and Adamkhel were registered with the FDMA when residents of Tirah were forced to leave Bagh-Maidan and its surrounding localities after TTP captured the area on March this year.

The driver of a NATO supply vehicle got injured when unidentified militants opened fire on it at bypass road of Jamrud tehsil in Khyber Agency of FATA. The sources said an Afghanistan-bound trailer bearing registration no. GLT-4086 loaded with NATO supply assignments was on its way to its destination in Afghanistan, as it was intercepted by unidentified militants who opened indiscriminate fire on it. Resultantly, the driver of the truck identified as Wali Mohammad, resident of Landi Kotal got injured.

Unidentified militants opened fire on two trucks carrying NATO vehicles in Jamrud area of Khyber Agency near the Afghan border in FATA, wounding two drivers. "The two trailers were on their way to Karachi when gunmen attacked them at different locations in Jamrud and opened fire on them, wounding their drivers," a local intelligence official told AFP. A senior local administration official, Jehangir Azam Wazir, confirmed the incident and said the attackers had fled. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Two men, identified as Sajidullah and Inamullah Khan, were injured when SFs opened fire at them while they were working in their fields in Mir Ali tehsil of North Waziristan Agency in FATA. Authorities imposed a curfew in order to provide protection to a military convoy. Helicopter gunships kept flying over the convoy. In addition, an IED planted along the road at Karamkot in Mir Ali tehsil was defused. A large number of people were stranded in FR Bannu because of curfew.

According to details given by the locals, earlier, on the night of November 10 SFs had resorted to heavy shelling following an attack by the militants on Amin checkpost in Miranshah. Officials said SFs took the retaliatory action after militants fired at checkpost. Heavy exchange of fire continued for over an hour. However, no casualty was reported.

A Khasadar force official was injured when a roadside bomb went off on the Pak-Afghan highway in Landikotal area of Khyber Agency in FATA. Sources said that unidentified militants had planted two remote-controlled explosive devices on the highway to target NATO supply vehicles. One of the planted bombs, the sources added, went off when the convoy of NATO trucks passed by. As a result, a Khasadar man, who was deployed to guard the highway, was seriously injured. The injured official is identified as Hussain Ahmad.

A roadside bombing killed two Khasadar Force personnel on the Pak-Afghan Highway near the Takhta Beg check-post in Jamrud tehsil (revenue unit) in Khyber Agency.

The hujra of a tribesman, identified as Shah, was damaged in Ghundi area in the Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency in FATA. The gate and portion of the boundary-wall of the structure were damaged in the explosion. However, no human loss was reported in the blast.

SFs arrested two alleged terrorists and recovered arms and explosives from their possession in Khuna Gandao area of Shahidano Dhand in Kurram Agency. 55 land-mines, six hand-grenades, mortar shells, eight chemical masks, four kilogram explosives, binocular, compass, cameras and thousands of rounds were recovered from the possession of the arrested terrorists. The identity of the arrested persons was not disclosed to the media.

Two soldiers were injured when a SFs convoy came under a remote-controlled IED attack near Karam Kot area in Mir Ali subdivision of North Waziristan Agency in FATA.

The house of one Shehzad Khan was blown up by unidentified militants in Ghundi area of Jamrud tehsil in Khyber Agency. Sources said that the militants had planted explosives to the house of the tribesman and triggered the explosion at midnight. The empty house of Shehzad was destroyed while another adjacent house was partially damaged in the explosion, the sources said. However, no casualty was reported in the incident.

Seven TTP militants, including a local 'commander' Qari Saifuddin, were killed when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle carrying TTP militants in the Mir Ali area of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan Agency. There was no immediate claim of responsibility and the motive of the attack was not clear.

Two dead bodies, identified as that of Abdul Wahab and Abdul Rahim, were found in the Mulagori area of Jamrud tehsil in Khyber Agency. They hailed from the Daudzai area in Peshawar.

A bullet-riddled dead body of a man, identified as Roohullah, a resident of Tarnab in Peshawar, was found in Wazir Dhand area of the Jamrud.

TTP militants abducted 11 teachers, involved in a polio vaccination campaign for schoolchildren, from the private Hira Public School in the Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency. Local official, Khyali Gul said the armed militants took the teachers to an area controlled by militant leader Mangal Bagh and his Taliban-affiliated Lashkar-e-Islam group.

At least three persons, including two students, were killed and one other injured in two separate explosions that took place in Kurram Agency. According to the political administration of the area, a roadside bomb was detonated near a car in the Shablan area of Upper Kurram Agency. Subsequently, two people were killed whereas one person sustained injuries. The second explosion occurred in the Dal area of Upper Kurram Agency, killing one person.

Two soldiers were killed and five others injured when a roadside bomb was detonated near a SFs' convoy on the road near Karamkot in Mir Ali tehsil of NWA. According to sources, a remote-controlled bomb, planted along the road near Karamkot, was detonated when the SFs' convoy was travelling from Miranshah to Mir Ali. Subsequently, two soldiers were killed on the spot whereas five others were injured.

A police constable, who had allegedly been kidnapped by militants on October 22, 2013 while on his way to work, was found dead by a road side in Karam Kot. The Police assumed he had been kidnapped.

Due to a lawyers strike, the FATA Tribunal adjourned the hearing of a review petition filed by former Khyber Agency surgeon Doctor Shakil Afridi to December 9, 2013. After the last hearing on November 5, 2013 when the tribunal ordered the Khyber Agency political agent to compile a report on the accused and his case, lawyers confirmed Dr Shakil Afridi's records have been submitted. Dr Afridi had filed a review petition through his counsel - Advocates Abdul Latif Afridi, Samiullah Afridi and Qamar Nadeem, seeking a fresh trial and bail.

Army Sector Commander North Brigadier Haider while speaking at a ceremony to inaugurate a month-long cleaning drive in Khar town of Bajaur Agency said that peace had been restored and writ of the government established in the whole area after the successful operation by Security Forces against militants in Bajaur Agency. He appreciated the tribesmen and personnel of Bajaur levies forces for their outstanding efforts in restoration of peace in the Agency.

At least three suspected militants were reported killed and several others injured when two missiles were fired by a US drone on a compound in Angar Kalli area near Miranshah tehsil in North Waziristan Agency of FATA. The sources said that drones had been hovering over the area for hours. According to sources, two militants killed in the attack were from Punjab and were fighting in Afghanistan.

At least three security officials were killed and two injured in a terrorist attack on a security check post in Mohmand Agency of FATA. According to sources, unidentified armed attackers opened fire on the check post in Baizai area of Mohmand Agency near Afghan border.

A FC official, identified as Dilawar Khan, was killed when unidentified militants opened fire at a security camp in Speen Wam tehsil of North Waziristan Agency.

A roadside IED exploded in Dirdoni, Ghulam tehsil of NWA. However, no casualties were reported.

SFs defused a roadside bomb on Bannu-Miranshah Road in Khadi.

TTP Chief Mullah Fazlullah along with 15 aides arrived in North Waziristan Agency. Sources said there were reports that newly appointed TTP chief has reached in North Waziristan Agency from Afghanistan along with his 15 aides. They further said Mullah Fazlullah will preside over the meeting of Taliban Shura in few days.

Four FC officials, identified as Rafiq, Zabitullah, Rasool Khan and Javaid, were injured when an IED planted by unidentified militants along a roadside in Malik Shagha exploded in Ghundai area of Jamrud tehsil in Khyber Agency.

The Upper House of the Parliament was informed that over 32% of the education institutions in the tribal areas of Pakistan have been destroyed in militancy. Minister for States and Frontier Regions (Safron), Lieutenant General (retired) Abdul Qadir Baloch informed the National Assembly that over 1,029 educational institutions are non-functional in the FATA. He added that majority of the schools were destroyed in the military operation against militants.

Providing a breakdown, the written reply informed the Parliament that as many as 944 schools were destroyed in military operations, while 31 in sectarian violence, 16 in floods and eight schools were damaged in local disputes.

TTP Chief Mullah Fazlullah moved from North Waziristan Agency in FATA to Dir District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to sources Mullah Fazlullah has decided to use Dir District as the headquarters of TTP instead of North Waziristan which has been declared insecure by his aides due to the growing intensity of drone attacks. TTP chief first went to Kunar in Afghanistan and then shifted to an undisclosed location in Dir District of KP. However, the TTP sources have not confirmed the movement of Mullah Fazlullah.

The upcoming by-elections scheduled for December 15, 2013 in PK-67 Kulachi tehsil may be targeted by terrorists, said Dera Ismail Khan Commissioner Mushtaq Jadoon. Jadoon added that after receiving information of potential terrorist acts, the administration had beefed up security to ensure a peaceful election. Kulachi tehsil is on the border of South Waziristan Agency.

Around 700 'missing persons' have been shifted to the notified internment centres in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the FATA during the last few months, according to a report produced in the Peshawar High Court. While submitting the 25-page report of the Task Force on Missing Persons said 643 people were shifted to internment centres in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 64 to such centres in tribal areas.

At least four soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in Spinwam village of North Waziristan Agency. Ansar-ul-Mujahideen, a little known militant group linked to the TTP claimed responsibility for the attack. "It is in retaliation to the drone strike in Hangu," said Abu Baseer, the 'spokesman' of the outfit, threatening more attacks.

Unidentified armed militants shot dead a polio worker, identified as Yousaf Khan, in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency.

The Yousufkhel tribe in Landikotal town of Khyber Agency announced its boycott of the anti-polio campaign to press for the release of nine of their elders who were arrested a few days ago.

At least six suspected militants were killed in a drone strike in Mach Magai area of Khyber Agency.

A PML-N leader from Bajaur Agency, identified as Gul Karim Khan, escaped a remote-controlled IED attack along roadside in Tangi area of Salarzai tehsil in Bajaur Agency.

A landmine explosion killed at least two tribesmen and wounded two others in Pewaar area of Kurram Agency.

At least five soldiers were killed and 34 others, including 28 soldiers and six FC personnel, were wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a military checkpoint in Mir Ali tehsil of Miranshah in North Waziristan Agency. Ansar-ul-Mujahideen, a militant group linked to the TTP claimed the responsibility for the attack. Abu Baseer, the 'spokesman' for the group, said they carried out the attack as an act of revenge for the killing of former TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud.

Tribesman, Aqeel Khan, carrying water for the levies force was injured in a bomb blast in Charramang area of Bajaur Agency. He routinely provided water to the levies post from a nearby place.

A tribal tribunal on sent back the case of Dr Shakil Afridi, who was convicted of aiding a militant group and helping the American CIA track down al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, to the FCR commissioner. Chairman Shah Wali Khan and members Pir Fida Muhammad and Akbar Khan of the three-member FATA Tribunal declared authorities' decision "ambiguous and self-contradictory" directing the commissioner to review the previous decision".

Troops mounted helicopter and mortar attacks on militants in North Waziristan Agency, where officials said that at least 33 militants and three civilians have been killed. A senior military official said 23 militants were killed overnight in fighting with Security Forces in North Waziristan Agency. Later, 10 more militants - most of them Uzbeks - were killed in a fresh search operation in Mir Ali town, the military said.

Three passengers were killed after SFs opened fire on a vehicle during curfew hours near Khajori check post in North Waziristan Agency. Troops resorted to retaliatory firing when miscreants fired three rockets at a security forces' base near Mir Ali town. Artillery and mortar shells rained on residential compounds in Mirali, Mosaki and Epi village. Indeed, the entire chain of events that has left the whole of North Waziristan under a curfew for four days is shrouded in confusion. The residents said that SFs encircled two hotels and that the dead were non-combatants. Hundreds of tribesmen including women and children are stranded for the last four days in Miranshah Bus Stand in FR Bannu and different parts of North Waziristan Agency due to ongoing curfew.

Unidentified militants shot dead a polio worker, identified as Galiab Khan, in Ghundi area of Jamrud tehsil in Khyber Agency. Some official sources also said that gunmen threw a pamphlet next to the polio worker, after opening fire on him, with a warning that all those who were part of any polio vaccination campaign or found working for any Non-Governmental Organisation would be targeted in a similar manner.

Two people were injured when an artillery shell hit a house in Manan Kot area near Mir Ali town of North Waziristan Agency. Locals said that Security Forces, backed by artillery and helicopter gunships, fired back after terrorists attacked a convoy in Manan Kot.

DPC's national jirga in a unanimously approved resolution demanded from the Government an immediate halt of the military operation in North Waziristan Agency, to allow Pakistan Air Force to shoot down the US drone and get out of the US war on terror. The resolution announced by JUI-S chief Maulana Samiul Haque further stressed on resolving all issues through negotiations, asked the Government to hold talks with the TTP, stop military operation immediately, while those affected during FATA operation should be given compensations.

Polio vaccinators backed out from the next immunisation drive in Khyber Agency after his Galiab Khan's murder. Volunteers and EPI staff have been gripped by fear after Ghilaf was targeted, said Dr Usman Afridi, who is field supervisory medical officer for the EPI.

Curfew imposed after December 18, 2013 suicide bomb attack on a mosque near a checkpost and subsequent clashes between militants and security forces in North Waziristan Agency was lifted, following successful talks among the Administration, representatives of TTP local chapter and members of a grand tribal jirga in Miranshah.

According to tribal elders of Mir Ali, the administration and members of the TTP shura announced in Miranshah and adjoining villages that a ceasefire had been declared in accordance with a peace agreement signed in 2006.

Residents of North Waziristan Agency claimed that dozens of civilians were killed during the December 19-20, 2013 military operation. Military officials claimed more than 30 militants were killed in the offensive. Residents, however, insist that those killed were civilians. "From the first day of the attack to up till now 70 civilians have been killed," said a tribal elder in Mir Ali on condition of anonymity.

A US drone fired two missiles at a compound near Qutab Khel in Miranshah town of North Waziristan Agency, killing at least four suspected militants. The dead bodies could not be immediately identified.

A leader of the TTP, identified as Mohammad Hashim Khan, was found dead in his hotel room in Miranshah town of North Waziristan Agency. Officials said that Khan hailed from Khost province of Afghanistan and had been staying in the hotel for a long time.

JeI chief Munawar Hassan warned that the army would suffer a debacle if it continued with the military operation in North Waziristan Agency. "I want to make it clear to the Government that North Waziristan is not like South Waziristan, Buner and Swat and if it (Government) doesn't stop military operation there, then the military is bound to suffer a disastrous failure and thus, harming national interest," Hassan said.

In the wake of threat to the polio workers from the terrorists and their refusal to carry out the polio drive, the political administration of Khyber Agency decided to deploy Khasadar Force personnel to conduct the vaccination campaign. The region has registered two more polio case in December increasing the number of cases to 19 during 2013, the highest in any District of Pakistan.

At least one person was killed in a cross-border missile strike in Hashim village in Charmang tehsil of Bajaur Agency. An official belonging to the political administration of Bajaur Ageny's Khar tehsil headquarters confirmed that rockets were fired from Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.

SFs arrested seven suspects during a joint search operation in Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency. Official sources said that seven rockets and several missiles were also recovered during the operation.