Daily Times reported that Taliban
militants
attacked
a
security
post
on
the
outskirts
of
Khar,
headquarters
Bajaur
Agency
in
the
FATA
on
October
26.
Troops
retaliated,
killing
six
Taliban.
Five more militants were killed when troops
attacked
a
suspected
Taliban
base
in
the
Charmang
district,
another
security
official
said.
Meanwhile, elders from Salarzai
tribes
on
October
25
said
that
there
should
be
no
dialogue
with
the
Taliban,
as
they
are
extremists
killing
innocent
people.
Addressing
a
press
conference,
the
Salarzai
elders
claimed
that
some
political
parties
were
criticising
tribal
lashkars
(militias)
without
any
justification,
while
it
was
only
because
of
these
armed
tribesmen
that
the
Taliban
had
fled
the
agency.
Major
(r)
Malik
Karim
Khan,
defended
the
decision
to
raise
tribal
lashkars,
as
‘the
Taliban
are
killing
innocent
people’.
He
said
a
tribal
lashkar had become
a
necessity
for
the
Salarzai
tribes
to
defend
themselves. |
