At least 11 people, seven of them Frontier
Corps
personnel
and
three
Khasadars,
were
killed
and
five
injured
on
October
26
in
a
suicide
attack
in
the
Mohmand
Agency
of
FATA,
Dawn reported. The channel quoted sources as saying that a suicide
bomber
rammed
his
explosives-laden
car
into
the
Naqi
check
post,
killing
the
10
security
force
(SF)
personnel
and
a
technician.
Talking
to
the
channel,
Mohmand
Agency
Assistant
Political
Agent
Saeed Ahmad Jan, however, denied that anybody had died, saying that the attack had only injured nine SF personnel.
Meanwhile, Political authorities in Mohmand
Agency
have
rejected
a
grand
tribal
jirga’s (council) offer to mediate between the authorities
and
the
local
Taliban
militants
for
attaining
peace
in
the
area.
According
to
the
channel,
the
authorities
said
that
security
operations
would
continue
until
the
area
was
cleared
of
the
Taliban.
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