January 1
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Three US missile
strikes hours apart killed 18 persons in a terrorist stronghold
near the Afghanistan border in North Waziristan Agency of FATA.
A total of 118 such strikes, carried out by unmanned aircraft,
were launched in 2010 in the Tribal areas, killing up to 2,100
people, most of them terrorists, according to the Washington-based
policy think-tank New America Foundation.
At least 11 suspected
militants were killed in two US drone attacks in North Waziristan
Agency of FATA.
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January 2
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Khasadar Force personnel, Raees
Khan, was injured during search operation against militants in
Ziarai Mountain of Landikotal in Khyber Agency of FATA.
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January 3
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One person was killed and another
injured when SFs opened fire on a suspected car in Sheratala area
of North Waziristan Agency in FATA.
TTP chopped off a hand of a tribesman,
Abdul Khaliq, after a Sharia (Islamic Law) court found him "guilty"
of committing a theft in Qureshan Chowk in Mamozai area of Orakzai
Agency.
TTP attacked a
NATO oil tanker with a remote control bomb near Ali Masjid area
in Landikotal tehsil of Khyber Agency, destroying it completely.
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January 4
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TTP militants attacked a convoy
carrying food items, medicines and other goods to Parachinar at
Denari near Sadda town in Kurram Agency of FATA and torched seven
vehicles.
A group of militants attacked
a checkpoint in the Bhai Corr area of Mohmand Agency along the
Afghanistan border, triggering a brief encounter and prompting
SFs to arrest 39 militants.
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January 5
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Three persons were killed when
their vehicle hit roadside IEDs near Badragai village in Shakai
tehsil of South Waziristan Agency in FATA in the afternoon.
TTP militants chopped off the
hand of a man, Abdul Khaliq (31), convicted of theft in a self-appointed
Sharia court in Orakzai Agency. The TTP court found Abdul Khaliq
guilty of stealing from a shop on December 23.
SFs bombed suspected positions
of militants and arrested 23 tribesmen following an attack on
a convoy taking medicines, foodstuff and other goods to Parachinar
in Khuram Agency on January 4.
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January 6
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Six militants, including three
'commanders', were killed in a clash with the Qaumi Lashkar in
Saifaldar town, near the Afghanistan border, of Orakzai Agency
in FATA. Three militants were injured in the clash.
A caravan of 500 IDPs families
reached their native town Chagmalie from Tank and Dera Ismail
Khan Districts in the second phase of repatriation plan, under
tight security arrangements by the Government.
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January 7
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A US drone fired four missiles
at a vehicle in Datta Khel town of North Waziristan Agency in
FATA, killing six suspected militants.
Unidentified militants set on
fire two empty NATO oil tankers at Landikotal bypass in Khyber
Agency while they were on the way back to Peshawar after delivering
NATO fuel at Bagram airbase of Afghanistan.
SFs arrested 46 militants from
the Durrani area of Lower Kurram Agency. Nine hideouts were destroyed
and 1,800 bags of fertilizers (used for making explosives) were
recovered from their possession.
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January 8
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Four FC personnel were injured
in a roadside landmine blast and mortar attack in Qandharo area
of Safi tehsil in Mohmand Agency of FATA.
One FC trooper was injured when
militants fired a mortar shell at the FC camp in Mahmadghat tehsil
of Mohmand Agency.
The headless bodies of two local
tribesmen were found at a deserted place in Zakhakhel Bazaar area
of Khyber Agency. They were identified as Mian Khel son of Gula
Khan and Shala Baz Torkhel.
A special committee of the PAC
in a meeting informed that terrorist hideouts in the FATA were
insignificant in number because terrorists were constantly on
the run due to the war on terror by the Government of KP.
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January 10 |
Five militants, including a local
'commander', were killed when two rival militant outfits clashed
in Zangi area of Kurram Agency in FATA. Sources said that the
killed militants belonged to Al Badr outfit.
Unidentified militants blew up
two girls' primary schools in Merikhel and Mathakhel areas of
Landikotal in Khyber Agency. The total number of destroyed or
damaged schools in Khyber Agency has crossed 30.
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January 11 |
A girl was killed when a shell
landed in the residential area after militants attacked a checkpost
in Mohmand Agency. Sources said that militants attacked a security
post in Ali Zaman Ghundai area.
Six pro-government tribal elders
were injured in a roadside explosion in Katkot area of Loe Mamond
tehsil in Bajaur Agency.
Pakistan has indefinitely postponed
a full-scale military offensive against the Haqqani Network in
NWA of FATA because of the freezing winter there that normally
lasts over six months, an unnamed source said.
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January 12 |
Seven militants were killed and
10 other militants injured when SFs heavily pounded terrorist
hideouts near the Afghanistan border in Orakzai Agency of FATA.
Five militants were killed when
a US drone targeted a suspected militant compound at Haider Khel
village in Mir Ali tehsil of NWA.
Two SF personnel, identified as
Abdul Shakoor and Izhar, were killed and another, Jumma Khan,
was injured in a roadside landmine blast near Sarokai area on
Wana-Jandola Road in SWA.
A soldier, identified as Naik
Zamin Khan, was killed when militants fired mortar shells at Bhai
Dag FC camp in Baizai tehsil of Mohmand Agency.
16 militants, six would-be suicide
bomber children among them, surrendered to SFs in Ferozkhel area
of Khyber Agency.
Political administration and FC
officials held a grand tribal jirga for peace at Landikotal Jirga
Hall of Khyber Agency. Prominent maliks and elders from
Zakha Khel, Koki Khel, Shinwari, Shelmani and Malagori tribes
participated.
The US Vice President Joe Biden
made it clear that the US patience was running out with Pakistan's
indecision on military action against militants' hideouts in NWA.
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January 13 |
Mortar shells fired from across
Afghanistan border killed eight persons, including five men and
three women, in Tity Mada Khel village in the North Waziristan
Agency of FATA.
A Police official, Syed Marjan,
was killed and four others were injured in a bomb blast near Qambarkhel
checkpost in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency.
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January 14 |
SFs killed 11 militants, including
foreigners, and injured many others in Chinarak area near Afghanistan
border in Kurram Agency of FATA.
FC personnel killed three militants
and injured four others in retaliatory firing when a group of
unidentified militants attacked the FC camp in Bhaidaq of Mohammad
Agency with rockets and mortar shells.
A Government-run boys' school
was blown up in Baizai tehsil along Afghanistan border
in Mohmand Agency. With the latest incident, the number of destroyed/torched
schools in Mohmand Agency has reached 74.
All major operations have successfully
been completed in FATA and momentous success has been achieved,
Peshawar Corps Commander Lieutenant General Asif Yasin Malik,
said.
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January 15 |
Six militants were killed when
a vehicle carrying militants hit a landmine in the Mamozai area
of Orakzai Agency in FATA.
SFs shot dead four militants in
a retaliatory firing when a group of militants attacked a security
checkpost in the Toda Khora area of Orakzai Agency.
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January 16 |
A roadside explosion injured five
paramilitary personnel of Shawal Rifles in Razmak area of NWA
in FATA.
Unidentified militants blew up
a basic health unit by detonating an explosive device planted
to it in Adezai area of Mohammad Agency.
TTP warned tribesmen of NWA against
joining the Army, Frontier Corps or Levies Force. A pamphlet distributed
in Miranshah on behalf of the Shura-i-Mujahideen (council of holy
fighters) said the Government had been recruiting locals in the
army, Frontier Corps and Levies Force to use them against the
TTP.
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January 17
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An oil tanker carrying fuel for
NATO troops in Afghanistan destroyed completely after a bomb planted
in the vehicle exploded at a terminal near the Torkham border
crossing in the Khyber Agency of FATA.
A group of 12 Canadians are reported
undergoing militant training at an al Qaeda camp in NWA in FATA
in plots to carry out terror attacks back home.
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January 18
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At least seven suspected militants
were killed when the US drone fired two missiles at a compound
in Daska village, about 40 kilometres from Miranshah, in Dattakhel
tehsil of NWA in FATA. Three persons were injured in the
attack.
Three soldiers were killed and
three others injured when militants attacked a camp of SFs in
Razmak town of NWA in FATA
SFs repulsed an attack by unidentified
militants on a check post near the Bara grid station in the evening
in Bara town of Khyber Agency in FATA
SFs arrested a high ranking militant
‘commander’ of LI, identified as Mobeen Khan, along with three
other associates from Ziyarhai area of Landi Kotal in Khyber Agency.
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January 19
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The bullet riddled dead bodies
of three abducted oil tanker drivers were recovered on Torkham
Bypass Road in Khyber Agency of FATA.
Militants abducted five tribesmen
from Alisherzai area of Khuram Agency.
Two personnel of Levies Force
went missing in lower tehsil of Kurram Agency.
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January 20
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Three persons were killed when
a tractor trolley struck against a landmine in Gram village of
Kurram Agency in FATA.
Unidentified assailants shot dead
an official of Levies Force, identified as Ali Nabi, outside his
home in Zawoon Kallay in Orakzai Agency.
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January 21
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Four militants were killed in
a retaliatory firing by SFs when a group of militants attacked
a security checkpost in Miranshah, headquarters of NWA of FATA.
Suspected militants shot dead
two persons of Bangash tribe in Tooda Cheena area of Kurram Agency.
A bullet-riddled body of militant
‘commander’ Qari Abdullah was recovered from Tirah in Khyber Agency.
Several militants were feared
dead as gunship helicopters pounded militant hideouts in Dwaizai
area of Pindyali tehsil.
A pro-government tribal elder,
Malik Khaista Gul and his driver were injured when unidentified
militants ambushed their car near Shal Kor in Yakka Ghund of Mohammad
Agency.
Two SF personnel were injured
in a roadside explosion in Shawa Farsh area of Safi tehsil
in Mohmand Agency.
The SFs conducted a search operation
in Akora Khattak area of NWA and arrested six militants, including
two important ‘commanders’ belonging to Mohmand Agency.
Hundreds of tribesmen rallied
to demand an end to US drone attacks, which they said were killing
innocent people in the Tribal Areas in FATA.
The World Bank approved a $250
million loan to assist Pakistan’s recovery efforts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
and FATA.
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January 22
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Two levies personnel and a civilian
were killed while one soldier and six civilians were wounded in
an explosion in Lower Orakzai Agency in FATA.
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January 23
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A series of US drone strikes in
North Waziristan Agency in FATA killed at least 13 terrorists,
as tribesmen took to the streets to protest against the aerial
campaign.
Former ISI official, Sultan Amir
Tarar aka Colonel Imam, was killed in North Waziristan Agency
of FATA for non-payment of a ransom worth Rs 4.5 million.
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January 24
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A young boy was killed and two
of his sisters sustained injuries when a mortar shell landed in
their house in Chora area of Landikotal town.
Militants destroyed a girls' school
in Landikotal town.
Mystery shrouded the death of
Sultan Amir Tarar alias Colonel Imam, a former ISI official, amid
conflicting reports about the cause.
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January 26
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At least 18 suspected militants
were killed and 22 others were injured when gunship helicopters
and fighter jets bombed militant hideouts in different parts of
Mohmand Agency in FATA. At least three people, including a woman,
were killed in Shamsha area of Safi tehsil.
Militants blew up Musa Neeka Public
School in South Waziristan Agency.
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January 27
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At least 11 terrorists, including
one suicide bomber, were killed in separate incidents in the Tribal
Areas bordering Afghanistan. In one incident, Pakistani troops
and helicopter gunships killed 10 terrorists in a raid on their
hideouts in Mohmand Agency.
In Mohmand Agency, six people,
including three women and two children, were killed in Swezai
area of Pandyali tehsil when stray shells hit their houses.
A suicide bomber blew himself
up in Khar in Bajaur Agency when he was challenged by law enforcement
personnel. However, no other casualty was reported.
A Levis personnel, Mohammad Jan,
was killed by a mortar shell in Sagi Bala area of Safi tehsil
in Mohmand Agency in FATA. Two security personnel were injured
in a roadside landmine explosion in Qayumabad area of Safi tehsil.
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January 28
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SFs bombed terrorist hideouts
in a tribal region near the Afghan border on January 28, killing
28 terrorists. It was reported that 30 terrorists were wounded
in the operation while eight houses belonging to militants were
caught fire.
Five terrorists, including a 'commander',
were killed by SFs in different areas of Mohmand Agency in FATA.
In Sagai Upper, a shell hit a hideout and as a result local militant
'commander' identified as Kakim and two other militants were killed
on the incident site. Stray shells also destroyed several houses
in Gurbaz area killing two other militants, identified as Haji
Qasim and Deldar Khan.
In Bajaur Agency, the SFs arrested
at least 58 suspects during a search operation in different areas
of Nawagai tehsil.
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January 29
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SFs, in an air strike, killed
nine militants belonging to the TTP in Safi tehsil of Mohmand
Agency near Afghan border.
The SFs arrested six suspected
militants from a camp in Nahqi area of Mohmand Agency.
Two civilians were killed and
six were injured as SFs convoy was ambushed by militants in Khyber
tribal region's Bara tehsil.
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January 30
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At least 26 terrorists were killed
in separate incidents during an action of SFs in Pandiali, Safi,
Banizai and Ambar tehsils of Mohmand and Orakzai Agency of FATA.
16 terrorists were killed and several others were wounded while
their four hideouts were dismantled in Mohmand Agecny. SFs killed
ten TTP terrorists in Orakzai Agency.
20 TTP militants and six Turi
Bangash tribesmen were killed and two TTP militants were injured
when militants attacked a village in Kurram Agency in FATA after
a grand jirga (tribal assembly) headed by lawmakers had
announced a truce between Turi Bangash tribes and TTP.
A person was arrested while planting
a landmine in Jhanda Masood area of Safi tehsil in FATA.
Two children died when one of the victims stepped on a landmine.
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January 31
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Around 21 terrorists were killed
when the SFs launched operations in different areas of Mohmand
Agency in FATA. This search operation occurred on the pretext
of an earlier attack by the militants on the SFs checkpost. At
least two SFs were injured as unidentified terrorists fired six
rockets on the Aranda Police checkpost in Shabqadar area of Mohmand
Agency.
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February 2
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18 militants and three SFs were
killed as fierce fighting continued in Mohmand Agency in FATA.
Clashes started after the militants attacked Anargi security post
with heavy weapons, killing three SF personnel and injuring four
others. 18 militants were killed and several others were wounded
after SFs opened fire in retaliation. The Mohmand chapter of the
TTP spokesman Sajjad Mohmand said over phone that only seven militants
were killed and three were injured. He claimed killing 17 SFs
and injuring four in the clash.
Captain Jehan Zeb of 22-Punjab
Regiment was killed and three soldiers were injured in a landmine
explosion in Dwezai area of Pandyali tehsil in Mohmand
Agency, FATA.
One Pakistani soldier was killed
and seven others were injured in an exchange of fire with Afghan
troops in Tangarhi area near the border in North Waziristan Agency.
A clash erupted after a barrage of mortar shells fired from the
Afghan side hit the Bangi Dar post, near Ghulam Khan town (FATA),
jointly manned by the army and FC.
Unidentified armed militants shot
dead a driver and wounded a conductor of a NATO supply oil tanker
in a Landikotal bazaar in Khyber Agency in FATA while coming back
from Afghanistan.
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February 3
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Three TTP militants and a soldier
were killed during a shootout in Kalya tehsil in Orakzai
Agency.
Gunship helicopters heavily pounded
terrorists' positions near Afghan border in Kurram Agency killing
10 terrorists.
The gunship helicopters targeted
terrorists' hideouts at Alisherzai area in Orakzai Agency, injuring
eight terrorists and destroying three of their hideouts.
Terrorists detonated an IED planted
at a Government primary school in Saidan Kalay.
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February 5
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Three persons were killed and
two others were injured when a bomb planted in a car exploded
in the Barqambarkhel area of Khyber Agency FATA.
Militants shot dead four men for
alleged spying and dumped their bodies outside Karak town of North
Waziristan Agency in FATA.
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February 7
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TTP welcomed a peace agreement
between Shia and Sunni groups in Kurram Agency and pledged to
abide by it.
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February 8
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16 militants were killed as jet
fighters bombed their hideouts in different areas of Orakzai Agency.
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February 9
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SFs arrested three would-be women
suicide bombers along with five other people after a raid on a
house in Khar tehsil area of Bajaur Agency.
Rival Sunni and Shia communities
in Kurram Agency have agreed to end a four-year conflict that
claimed hundreds of lives.
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February 10
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Three persons, including two khasadars,
were killed by militants in NWA in FATA on charges of spying.
In Bajaur Agency, SFs warned militants
to lay down arms within 15 days or face military operation that
would be launched against militants if they failed to lay down
arms and surrender to SFs by February 25.
A girls’ college, Government Degree
College for Women, in Merazai area of Orakzai Agency was blown
up destroying six rooms and a computer lab.
Political authorities claimed
to have averted a terrorist bid by arresting a burqa clad
terrorist from the political compound in Frontier Region Tank.
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February 11
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A Levies trooper and a suspected
militant were killed in exchange of fire at Dabo Dheri checkpost
in Prang Ghar tehsil in Mohmand Agency in FATA.
Malak Sab Khan, head of Ambar
peace committee, of Ambar tehsil in Mohmand Agency and
three volunteers sustained injuries when their vehicle hit a landmine
near Ghaljo Darra as they were returning after attending a jirga
of the peace committee.
The SFs during search operation
destroyed houses of five militants in Ghaljo Dara and Lowi Shah
area of Ambar subdivision in Mohmand Agency.
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February 13
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At least eight militants were
killed and five others sustained injuries in a clash with SFs
in Dabori area of Orakzai Agency.
Unidentified assailants killed
one Khasadar, Afzal Afridi, in Landi Kotal Bazaar of Khyber
Agency in FATA.
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February 14
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Three cadres of Muqami Tehreek-e-Taliban
(Local Taliban Movement, MTT) received injuries when their vehicle
was targeted with a roadside explosive device at Sarki Qamar in
Qambarkhel area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency.
Abdul Qayum, a worker of an NGO,
received injuries when he was fired at by unidentified assailants
in Alamgudar area of Bara.
The TTP set ablaze the house of
a commander of LI in Akakhel area of Khyber Agency.
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February 15
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Militants publicly shot dead two
persons, among them an Afghan national, in New Adda area of Dattakhel
in North Waziristan Agency of FATA.
Mohmand Agency official, Amjad
Ali Khan, said SFs have cleared terrorists from 90 percent of
targeted Tribal Areas near the Afghan border in Mohmand Agency
during a three-week offensive.
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February 17
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Ten militants were killed during
clashes in different parts of Orakzai Agency of FATA.
Militants blew up three power
pylons in Razghar Mela, disrupting electricity to seven villages
of Sheikhan tribe in Orakzai Agency.
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February 18
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A trooper was killed and three
others were injured when militants attacked a Security checkpost
in Mohmand Agency of FATA.
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February 19
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Militants attacked a Security
checkpoint in Baizai tehsil of Mohmand Agency near the
Pakistan-Afghan border. 20 militants were killed and 25 others
injured in the clash that lasted three hours.
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February 20
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SFs attacked a hideout of militants,
killing 11 militants and injuring six others, near Dabori area
in Orakzai Agency of FATA.
A US drone attack killed at least
five militants in Kaza Panga village, 15 kilometres west of Wana,
the main town of SWA.
Two tribesmen were killed by militants
in North Waziristan Agency on a charge of spying for the US.
The dead body of ISI former official
Sultan Amir Tarar alias Colonel Imam was found from a roadside
in Mir Ali of North Waziristan.
Two khasadars
were killed and as many received injuries in an attack by unidentified
assailants in Wana town of South Waziristan Agency in FATA in
the night.
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February 21
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Ten suspected
militants were killed and another four injured when a US drone
attacked a suspected militant hideout in Miranshah, the headquarters
of North Waziristan Agency, in FATA in the night.
The SFs arrested
three local militant ‘commanders’ during a search operation in
Kausar area of Khar tehsil in Bajaur Agency.
SFs demolished
four hideouts of militants in Safi tehsil of Mohmand Agency. SFs
and volunteers of a local peace committee launched a joint search
operation in Jhanda Masood locality of Safi tehsil and demolished
four houses suspected to be used by militants.
An Iraqi al
Qaeda operative was believed to be one of the seven militants
killed by a US missile strike on a house in the village of Kaza
Panga in the Azam Warsak area of South Waziristan Agency on February
20, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
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February 22
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Two suspected
persons were arrested and arms were recovered from their possession
during search at Zalampul point near Bajaur-Dir border in Bajaur
Agency.
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February 23
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At least 10
militants were killed and several others were injured as SFs targeted
militant hideouts in Kurram Agency FATA.
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February 24
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At least six
persons were killed when the US drone missiles hit a house and
a car in a village in Dilkhel Degan area of the North Waziristan
Agency in FATA.
Five SF personnel
were killed and another two injured in a militant attack on a
check post in Landi Kotal area of Khyber Agency.
At least 32
militants laid down arms and surrendered to the SFs in Mamond
tehsil of Bajaur Agency. Maj Kamran, in charge of military operation
in Warr Mamond, said that the militants surrendered unconditionally.
He said that they also included four local ‘commanders’.
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February 27
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The dead body
of abducted tribal elder, Haji Abdul Wadud Afridi, chairman of
Khyber Agency’s Zakat (compulsory religious donation) committee,
was found dumped at a deserted place in Landi Kotal town of Khyber
Agency of FATA. Haji Abdul Wadud, who was the former Amir of Jamaat-i-Islami
(Khyber Agency), had been abducted on February 19. Sources said
that Habib Khan was associated with the militant outfit, LI, in
the past.
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March 1
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The TTP militants shot dead four
local tribesmen alleged of spying for the US. The bullet-riddled
bodies were dumped on a roadside in Miranshah, the main town of
North Waziristan Agency in FATA. The notes pinned on their chest
read, "We killed them because they were spying for America,
anyone who acts like this will face the same fate."
A roadside landmine planted by
militants in Ghalingar area of Safi tehsil of Mohmand Agency went
off, killing two tribesmen and injuring another. Also, Jaffar
Khan was killed when he stepped on a landmine planted by suspected
militants in Mansor Kor area of Safi tehsil in Mohmand Agency.
In Shalobar area of Bara tehsil
in Khyber Agency, a woman was killed when SFs opened indiscriminate
firing after an attack on their convoy on Machani check post.
Militants beheaded Aqal Mohammad
for his involvement in January 2011 drone attacks in Tirah valley.
The locals found the head of Aqal Mohammad in Qambarkhel area
while his torso was dumped at Nari Baba area.
Four troopers of Khasadar Force
were abducted from Ali Masjid area of tehsil in Khyber Agency.
The four tribal Policemen, identified as, Samad Khan, Khewa Khan,
Khan Sher and Ibad Gul, were reported "missing" after
an attack on Machani check post.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani
announced PKR 1 billion in the current budget and PKR 700 million
in the next year’s budget for rehabilitation of around 32 thousand
residents of the Kurram Agency who left their homes due to sectarian
riots and militancy.
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March 3
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Six officials of the Khasadar
Force were killed and three others injured when their vehicle
was ambushed by militants in Aalam Godar area of Bara tehsil in
Khyber Agency of FATA. The six personnel killed in the assault
were identified as Islam Gul Malik Deen Khel, Mirab Jan Aka Khel,
Noor Wali Zaka Khel, Noor Janan Qamar Khel, Abdul Wahid Aka Khel
and Shakoor Satoori Khel.
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March 4
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Unidentified militants blew up
Government schools for Boys with IEDs at the Shalobar in Khyber
Agency. However, no loss of life was reported in the blast.
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March 5
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SFs killed six militants during
an operation near Afghanistan border in Kurram Agency of FATA.
According to sources, the SFs pounded militants’ hideouts with
artillery in central Kurram. Two hideouts were also destroyed
in the shelling.
Unidentified militants attacked
a check-post of volunteers in Manzari Chena area of Bezai tehsil
in Mohmand Agency in the night. Eight volunteers were injured
and taken to hospital where one succumbed to his injuries. Sources
said that two other volunteers were also missing.
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March 6
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Ten militants were killed and
another eight injured when the helicopter gunships attacked militant
hideouts in Chinarak and Spairkat areas of Kurram Agency along
the Orakzai Agency border in Federally FATA. Eight hideouts were
destroyed.
One of the four khasadars (tribal
police force) personnel abducted on March 1, was found dead near
Ali Masjid in Landi Kotal town of Khyber Agency. Sources said
that the body of slain official Khewa Jan was recovered from Lala
Kandao near Ali Masjid along with a note and a sharp knife.
Unidentified militants abducted
two children, Akbar Hussain and Jalil Hussain, belonging to the
Turi tribe from Makhizai area of Kurram Agency.
The Khyber Agency Political Agent
Shafeerullah Khan said that a full-fledged military operation
would be launched in Bara areas very soon in order to purge the
area of militants and anti-social elements.
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March 8
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Ten militants were killed in two
US drone attacks in North and South Waziristan Agency of FATA.
Official sources said that three missiles fired by a drone hit
the house of Fazal Karam in Landi Dag area, about seven kilometres
south of Wana bazaar of South Waziristan Agency, in the afternoon,
killing five militants and injuring two others.
The Pakistan Army for the first
time gave the official version of US drone attacks in the FATA
and said that most of those killed were hardcore al Qaeda, Afghan
Taliban and TTP militants and a fairly large number of them were
of foreign origin. General Officer Commanding 7th Division Major
General Ghayoor Mehmood said in a briefing that "Myths and rumours
about US predator strikes and the casualty figures are many, but
it’s a reality that many of those being killed in these strikes
are hardcore elements, a sizeable number of them foreigners.
Major General Ghayoor said that
"Well we have over 820 checkposts along the border to stop militant
movement and there is strict vigilance, but unfrequented routes
are an exception for which alternate means, including intelligence-sharing
between coalition troops and the Army, are in place."
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March 10
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Unidentified militants blew up
a Government school for girls in Landi Kotal tehsil of Khyber
Agency in FATA. The residents of the area said that the two-room
building of the school in Sadukhel area turned into rubble when
explosives, planted inside it, went off around midnight. Sources
said that militants have so far destroyed about 31 Government
schools in Khyber Agency during the last one year.
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March 11
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At least 16 persons were killed
in three separate US drone strikes in two different locations
in the NWA of FATA. The first drone fired two missiles targeting
a suspected militant vehicle in Khaisur town, about 30 kilometres
north of Miranshah, the main town in the NWA.
Unidentified militants blew up
a Government girls’ primary school in Ali Masjid area of Jamrud
tehsil in Khyber Agency. According to a source, at least 34 Government-run
schools have been destroyed in the Khyber Agency.
Militants destroyed three bridges,
a girls’ school in Jamrud and an under-construction room of the
technical college in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency during
the last 24 hours.
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March 12
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Eight militants were killed and
three soldiers suffered injuries during an encounter in upper
tehsil of Orakzai Agency in FATA. Sources said that militants
attacked a checkpost in Ghelju area and injured three soldiers.
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March 13
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A US drone strike targeting a
militant vehicle and a compound on March 13 killed six militants
and injured five others in mountainous Spalga village, 15 kilometres
northeast of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan Agency
in FATA.
Three members of khasadar personnel
Asil Badshah family were injured when a rocket fired from unspecified
location hit his house in Jammu area of Frontier Region Kohat.
A SFs official
was killed and his colleague and a child were injured in a rocket
attack on a security base in Razmak Town in the night. Officials
said that eight rockets were fired at the main base from an unspecified
place.
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March 14
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Five militants
were killed when a US drone fired missiles on a car at Tapai village
in North Waziristan Agency of FATA. This was the third missile
attack during the past 24 hours in the area, raising the death
toll to 15.
Two officials
of the FC were injured in a remote-controlled IED attack on an
FC vehicle near Changai area of Khyber Agency.
Unidentified
militants blew up a Government primary school for boys at Rehmatullah
village in Changai area of Landikotal. The total number of schools
destroyed in Landikotal has reached 13.
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March 15
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Ten militants
were shot dead by SFs in retaliatory attack at San Pakka Kandau
area of Orakzai Agency in FATA. Two SFs personnel were also sustain
injuries.
SFs killed
six more militants in retaliation action after militants attacked
a security checkpost in Torgar area of Tal tehsil.
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March 16
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Ten militants
were killed and one security man was injured in a clash in Ghaljo
area of Upper Orakzai Agency in FATA. A security convoy coming
from Bori in Sukkur District of Sindh province to Ghaljo was attacked
by militants. One security man received injuries in the ambush.
A United States
(US) drone fired missiles at a militant hideout at Amboor Shega
area in Dattakhel tehsil in North Waziristan Agency, killing six
militants.
Three schoolchildren
were injured when a mortar shell exploded near Parvera area in
Zorbandar area of the Bajaur Agency.
Three NATO
helicopters violated Pakistan’s airspace and flew over Angoor
Adda, a border town in South Waziristan Agency.
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March 17
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A US drone
missile strike killed at least 41 persons in the Datta Khel of
North Waziristan Agency in FATA. The death toll was one of the
highest in a drone missile strike. An official said the drone
attacked a vehicle in the area that was passing by a house where
local tribesmen were holding a meeting, killing them. "It wasn't
a militant gathering, but a meeting of tribal elders from Ismail
Khan village to sort out some differences over a business deal,"
tribesman Zia-ur-Rehman said.
The TTP killed
an alleged spy and threw his body in Shni Kalay area of Frontier
Region Kohat. The deceased was later identified as, Hamid Khan
Afridi, a resident of Pirwalkhel village located in Akhorwal area.
Tariq Afridi faction of TTP claimed responsibility. The militants
also left a leaflet along with the body warning the tribesmen
of similar fate if they did not stop providing information about
TTP to Government agencies.
Unidentified
militants blew up a Government girls’ primary school in the Alam
Khani area of Sheikhmal Khel in Landikotal. The total number of
Government schools destroyed in Landi Kotal has reached 14 whereas
the figure in the entire Khyber Agency has crossed 40.
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March 18
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Four SFs personnel
were injured when their convoy was targeted with a remote-controlled
bomb in the Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency in FATA.
Reacting to
the deadly drone attack on a traditional jirga (tribal council)
on March 17 in the Datta Khel of North Waziristan Agency in FATA
that killed 41 civilians, the tribal elders announced waging jihad
against the US and its allies. Speaking during a hurriedly called
press conference at the Peshawar Press Club, head of the North
Waziristan’s Peace Committee Malik Jalal Sarhadi Wazir described
the March 17’s drone attack as a barbaric and inhuman act against
innocent people. He urged the tribesmen to stand up against the
atrocities of US and its stooges, who had been indulging in worst
type of human rights violation.
TTP threatened
to avenge the death of innocent people in the drone strikes. A
statement issued by TTP ‘spokesman’ Ihsanullah Ihsan said the
attack was a ‘blind retaliatory’ operation launched by the US
government in revenge for imprisonment of Raymond Davis in Lahore.
The US led
NATO commander in Afghanistan General David Petraeus said ON March
18 that it was ‘hugely important’ that Pakistani Army take action
against terrorists in North Waziristan Agency of FATA. General
David Petraeus credited Islamabad with battling terrorists elsewhere
but said the campaign needed to move to North Waziristan, where
members of the al Qaeda and Haqqani networks are based.
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March 19
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Unidentified
militants blew up a bridge in Shindand area of Bara tehsil in
Khyber Agency of FATA.
Hafiz Gul Bahadur
faction of TTP protested against the drone attacks in North Waziristan
Agency in FATA and said that if drone attacks were not brought
to an end, he would end the peace deal with the Government.
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March 21
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Militants shot dead four alleged
US spies, an Afghan national among them, in the NWA of FATA. One
body was found along a road in Dattakhel, two in Dosali and the
body of the Afghan national was recovered from a place in Mir
Ali. Since January, 17 alleged spies have been killed.
A trooper was injured when he
stepped on a landmine in Chinari area of Safi tehsil in Mohammad
Agency.
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March 22
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Six SFs personnel were injured
and their vehicle was destroyed when their convoy hit a roadside
bomb in Alam Godar area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency of FATA.
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March 23
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Unidentified militants blew up
a power pylon and damaged a telephone exchange in Jamrud tehsil
of Khyber Agency in FATA.
Officials said that they neutralised
another powerful explosive device in Jamrud tehsil.
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March 24
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Eight militants were killed when
SFs pounded suspected locations with artillery shelling in Ghiljo
tehsil of Orakzai Agency in FATA. The injured SFs personnel were
identified as Rehman Khattak and Mohammad Rehman Bhettani.
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March 25
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At least 13 passengers were killed
and eight injured, while around 33 were abducted by suspected
militants in an attack on a convoy of passenger vehicles in the
Kurram Agency of FATA. Sources said that the victims were Turi
tribesmen who belonged to the Shia sect. The convoy had entered
Kurram Agency after crossing the Chapari check-post via Thall
tehsil in Hangu District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Sajid Hussain Turi, the Member
of National Assembly from Kurram Agency, has said that the attack
on the minibus proved that the agreement signed by the two warring
tribes on February 5 is a useless document. The attack on passengers
by terrorists was a failure of security agencies and a serious
breach of the Amman Jirga (peace deal) that the Sunni and Shia
tribes had signed, he added.
Unidentified militants killed
one Sajjad Ali (16) on charges of spying and his bullet riddle
dead body was recovered from Spin Qabar area of Bara tehsil of
Khyber Agency.
Militants blew up two more girls
schools in Landi Kotal and Bara tehsils and demolished with explosives
another bridge at Akakhel. Sources said that a Government middle
school in Akakhel was blown up while a girl’s primary school in
Sultankhel area of Landi Kotal was destroyed. Militants have so
far destroyed 36 educational institutions in different parts of
Khyber Agency. The number of bridges destroyed in Bara during
the last one month has reached 12 with 10 in Akakhel and two in
Sipah area.
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March 26
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The Government will pay compensation
to the families of 39 people who died in a US drone strike in
North Waziristan Agency of FATA. Civilians and Police were among
those killed when missiles hit a compound in Datta Khel, 40 kilometres
west of Miranshah on March 17. Tribal administration official
Asghar Khan said a compensation package was ready for the victims’
families. "Three hundred thousand rupees each will be paid
to 39 families, while 100,000 rupees will be paid to six injured,"
Khan said, adding that payments would commence from March 28.
The Government pays compensation to Police and civilians who get
killed in bomb blasts or terror attacks but this will be the first
time that compensation has been paid to US drone attack victims.
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March 27
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Four persons, including a woman,
were killed and several others sustained injuries when unidentified
militants fired a rocket at a vehicle in Shahidano village near
Kurram Agency of FATA.
The elements within the TTP, based
in North Waziristan Agency of FATA, have established a separate
vigilance cell to hunt down persons suspected of providing vital
intelligence to guide the United States in its drone campaign.
Known as Lashkar-e-Khorasan (LeKh), the group’s only purpose is
to identify, capture and execute persons allegedly working for
what is described as a web of local spies created by the CIA.
The LeKh draws it strength from both the Haqqani network and the
Hafiz Gul Bahadur group, two militias that control the regions
along the Afghanistan border. Though the exact number of members
in LeKh is unknown, one source in the tribal areas said it was
more than 300. The regions where the cell works are Datta Khel,
Miranshah and Mir Ali town of North Waziristan, as well as surrounding
areas where US drone strikes have been frequent. An intelligence
official at Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi and several
local sources from Mir Ali and Miranshah also confirmed the existence
and activities of the LeKh, but appeared unaware of its structure.
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March 28
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At least 14
paramilitary troops, among them two senior officers, were killed
in a militant ambush on their convoy in the Akakhel area of Bara
tehsil in Khyber Agency of FATA. "The Frontier Corps (FC)
personnel were returning to their base after carrying out a search
operation in the nearby Sipah area when ambushed by militants,"
a senior security official said on condition of anonymity. The
slain officers were identified as Lieutenant Colonel Sheraz, Captain
Islam. The troopers belong to the paramilitary Mehsud Scouts and
Khyber Rifles.
Unidentified
militants blew up a primary school for girls and a high school
for boys in Jawaki area of FR Kohat. Sources said that several
time devices were planted in the classrooms and boundary walls
of both the schools.
Political administration
officials neutralised a sabotage attempt by defusing explosive
device planted by suspected militants at a Government-run school
in Gang area of Salarzai tehsil in Bajaur Agency.
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March 29
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About 90 per
cent of Orakzai Agency has been cleared of militants and the internally
displaced people should now quickly return to the safe areas,
said Orakzai Political Agent Riaz Khan Masud said.
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March 31
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SFs killed
eight militants and injured several others during a search operation
in Kurram Agency of FATA. A cache of arms and ammunitions were
recovered during search operations in the area.
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April 1
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Nine militants
were killed when Security Forces launched a counter-offensive
after the militants attacked a checkpost in Dabori area of Orakzai
Agency in FATA. Three SFs personnel, identified as Sajid, Mirza
Tabassum and Azeem Khan, were injured during the offensive.
Unidentified
militants beheaded three watchmen at a NATO trucks’ terminal near
Landi Kotal railway station in the Khyber Agency. The slain watchmen,
Hijran Ullah, Hafiz Ullah and Amaldar Shinwari, belonged to the
local Shinwari tribe.
The under construction
portion of Samendar Kot high school was blown up in Dandy Darpakhel
area of North Waziristan Agency.
A tube-well
was blown up in Doog village in the South Waziristan Agency.
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April 2
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Four militants
were killed while another 12 injured in the factional clash between
Mangal Bagh-led LI volunteers and their opposition force, led
by commander Toti Khan, in the far-flung areas of Zakha Khel Bazaar
in Landikotal tehsil of Khyber Agency in FATA. So far,
four militants have reportedly been killed, including an LI ‘commander’
identified as Toti Khan, while, 12 others from both sides were
injured, local sources of Zakha Khel confirmed. Many prisoners,
who were kept for extortion money, fled from the private jails
of the LI when the two sides fought each other, a source in Malik
Deen Khel tribe in Kata Koshata informed.
11 soldiers
were injured when a convoy of SFs was ambushed with a remote-controlled
device in the Akakhel area of Khyber Agency.
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April 3
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SFs killed
seven LI militants through gunship helicopter shelling in the
Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency in FATA.
The factional
clash between Mangal Bagh-led LI volunteers and their opposition
force, led by commander Toti Khan turns a new turn when the Ansarul
Islam joined the Zakha Khel tribe’s militants in Mira Kholey.
Earlier on April 2, it was reported that four militants, including
LI opposition force ‘commander’ identified as Toti Khan, were
killed. Toti Khan belongs to Zakha Khel tribe. Ansarul Islam militants
attacked a secret jail of Lashkar-e-Islam and rescued 20 persons
who had been abducted by LI from Peshawar and Khyber Agency for
ransom.
The voluntary
repatriation of internally displaced families from the conflict-hit
Bajaur and Mohmand Agency will start from April 11. The FATA Disaster
Management Authority said that the programme of voluntary return
would continue till May 20. However, officials said that none
of the IDPs would be forced to leave the camps, set up for them
in Jalozai and Risalpur. Presently around 15,000 IDP families
have been residing in these camps. The plan of voluntary repatriation
is also applicable to around 65,000 displaced families living
off-camps. "The return of these IDPs will be in accordance
with international standards, which does not allow forced return,"
said Allah Dad Khan, in-charge of Jalozai camp, situated around
10 kilometres off the G.T. Road from Pabbi town.
The Director
General of FATA Disaster Management Authority, Arshad Khan, also
said that they had finalised arrangements so that all Bajaur and
Mohmand IDPs, who left their homes as a result of operation against
militants in their respective areas, could go back with honour
and respect. According to FATA Disaster Management Authority,
the number of displaced families from Bajaur Agency are 50,000
whereas the displaced families from Mohmand Agency are over 30,
800. The IDPs living off-camps include 37,000 families from Bajaur
and around 29,000 families from Mohmand. Mr Allah Dad said that
Jalozai camp, the largest of all, housed over 13,000 displaced
families from Bajaur and over 1,500 families from Mohmand Agency.
The same camp also provides shelter to over 4,000 families belonging
to Bara, Khyber Agency, but so far that area had not been cleared
by the SFs and no returning plan has been announced for them.
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April 4
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Dushmankhel
tribe chief, Sardar Amanuddin Mehsood, was killed in Wana, the
head quarter of South Waziristan Agency, in FATA. According to
sources, unidentified militants had abducted him two months ago
and his body was found near the Shewkai Narai area of Wana.
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April 5
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Three ‘commanders’
of LI were killed in fighting with Zakhakhel lashkar in Tirah
valley of Khyber Agency in FATA. Sources said that the lashkar
killed Khan Zakhakhel, the suspected head of the LI execution
squad, along with his family after torching his house on the second
day of fighting. The sources claimed that Khan Zakhakhel carried
out executions on the orders of Mangal Bagh. Two other LI ‘commanders’,
Mula Zahuruddin and Policai (real name not known) were also killed
along with Khan. Another two LI ‘commanders’ reportedly surrendered
to the Zakhakhel lashkar in Bar Qambar Khel and Brug areas, after
the latter took control of Ziarhai heights. The sources also added
that Ansarul Islam militants re-established control over Sandapal
after Zakhakhel tribesmen, previously loyal to LI, had abandoned
the area. The LI had ousted Ansar from Sandapal three years ago
after a fierce gunbattle. Meanwhile, the political administration
in Landi Kotal has held consultations with Zakhakhel elders and
assured them of the Government support against LI.
Two militants
belonging to TTP were killed when TTP and Ansarul Islam exchanged
heavy fire in Peer Mela Zakha Khel area in Tirah Valley in Khyber
Agency. Three other TTP militants were also arrested by the Ansarul
Islam.
A TTP ‘commander’,
Noor Mohammad Khwaidadkhel, and his bodyguard, Fazl Mahmood, were
killed and two civilians injured when unidentified assailants
opened fire at a weekly festival in Baggun village of Kurram Agency.
Noor Mohammad was an important member of the TTP and its slain
leader Baitullah Mehsud had appointed him as his deputy in Kurram
Agency. The sources said a militant outfit led by ‘Commander’
Sattar had rivalry with the Noor Mohammad group.
Two government
schools and a basic health unit were blown up in different areas
of Haleemzai tehsil in Mohmand Agency. Sources said that a boys’
primary school in Shaha Beg area and a boys’ primary school and
basic health unit in Mominabad area were blown up with explosives.
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April 6
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Three children
and a woman were killed and another woman was injured when a shell
hit the house of one Toor Mulla in Selai area of Bezai tehsil
in Mohmand Agency of FATA.
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April 7
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Fifty militants
and four SFs personnel were killed in bombings and clashes in
different areas of Mohmand Agency of FATA. During the second phase
of Operation Brekhna (lightning) in militant-infested areas along
the Afghanistan border, SFs backed by warplanes, helicopter gunships
and artillery pounded militant hideouts in Suran Darra, Mosakhel,
Bahadar Kalley, Matai, Shinwari and Ghalingar areas of Bezai and
Safi tehsils (revenue unit). Administration officials said 50
militants were killed and several others injured as air strikes
destroyed several hideouts in the intervening night of April 6-7.
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April 8
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Two tribesmen
and an Afghan national were killed on charges of spying for United
States in two separate places in North Waziristan Agency of FATA.
Sources said that the dead body of Aziz, an Afghan national, was
found near Nowrek village in Mir Ali tehsil and those of two local
tribesmen, Inayatullah and Shah Wali, were spotted in Pir Kali
area near Miramshah. Chits strapped to the bodies said the three
had been killed because they were spying for the US.
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April 9
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One Army official
died in a clash with militants in Saafi area of Mohmand Agency
in FATA.
30 suspected
militants were arrested and five land mines were also neutralised
by the SFs in Saafi area.
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April 10
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Four LI militants
including a ‘commander’ were killed during the clash with the
members of Zakhakhel lashkar in Bazaar Zakhakhel area in Tirah
Valley of Khyber Agency in FATA.
Two SFs personnel
were killed and seven others injured when militants ambushed the
convoy in Baizai tehsil of Mohmand Agency. Officials said that
SFs were engaged in a search operation in Suran Darra area of
Baizai when they came under attack. The SFs arrested 30 suspects
during a search operation in the area after the incident.
Behram Khan,
the main accused of plotting twin suicide attacks on Syed Sakhi
Sarwar’s shrine near Dera Ghazi Khan District of Punjab on April
3, was arrested from Gharigaal area of Mamond District in Bajaur
Agency along with five other associates.
Atleast hundred
families have migrated from Bazaar Zakhakhel area in Tirah Valley
of Khyber Agency to safer places due to fresh clashes between
Zakhakhel tribe and LI. Amid the intense gunbattle between Zakhakhel
lashkar and Mangal Bagh-led LI, locals have started migrating
to safer places in Landikotal, Jamrud and Peshawar via Ali Masjid
route. Mehboobul Haq-led Ansarul Islam is also backing the Zakhakhel
lashkar in Maidan, Sanda Pal and other areas in Tirah Valley.
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April 11 |
Three people, including a religious
cleric, were killed and 13 others, including a woman and children,
were injured in a landmine explosion in Kanrakai area of Kurram
Agency in FATA. According to details, a pick-up taking commuters
from Kanrakai to Parachinar, the headquarters of Kurram Agency,
when it hit an anti-tank explosive planted by unidentified militants.
Unidentified militants blew up
two power transmission towers in Qayum Abad and Bayankhel areas
of Safi tehsil in Mohmand Agency.
Army jet fighters and helicopter
gunships pounded suspected militant hideouts in Baizai and Safi
tehsils. The artillery also targeted militant positions in Mattani
and Suran Darra. However, no casualty was reported.
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April 12 |
Eight militants were killed and
12 others injured when jet fighters, helicopter gunships and artillery
pounded their hideouts in Mattani, Suran Darra, Wali Dad Kor,
Ghanam Shah and Sheikh Baba villages in Baizai and Safi tehsils
of Mohmand Agency in FATA.
Unidentified militants blew off
Bacha Khan Education Foundation middle school at Khuga Khel in
Shinwari area of Landikotal in Khyber Agency in the night. However,
no human loss has been reported in the blast.
Militants who were driven out
by the 'spring cleaning operation' of FC in the FR of Peshawar
in February 2010 are returning to their old strongholds. "Militants
fleeing the ongoing operation in Tor Sapari area of FR Kohat have
moved back to Maroofkhel, Tauda Cheena, Pakhi Parizi and Aka Khel
areas bordering the Peshawar District, FR Peshawar and Khyber
Agency," said the sources.
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April 13 |
Only a day after a four-hour meeting
between the heads of ISI and the CIA of the United States held
to reset strained ties between the two agencies, missiles fired
by US drones killed seven suspected militants and injured four
others near Angoor Adda in SWA of FATA.
Pakistan lodged a protest with
the United States over the Angoor Adda drone attack, describing
the continued drone raids as a 'core irritant' in counter-terrorism
cooperation. "Pakistan strongly condemns the drone attack at Angoor
Adda today. We have repeatedly said that such attacks are counter-productive
and only contribute to strengthening the hands of terrorists,"
Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir told US Ambassador Cameron Munter
while lodging the protest with him. "Drone attacks have become
a core irritant in the counter-terror campaign," a statement by
the Foreign Office said.
The timing of the latest attack
is also being seen as meaningful because it took place at a time
when ISI Chief General Shuja Pasha was on his way home from Washington
after talks with his counterpart, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta.
A Washington Post report quoting
US defence officials have claimed that there is no plan to suspend
or restrict the CIA's drone campaign in Pakistan, and that the
agency has not been asked to pull any of its employees out of
Pakistan.
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April 14 |
At least 18 militants were killed
and another 25 injured in clashes with SFs in Baizai and Safi
tehsils of Mohamad Agency in FATA. Two soldiers were killed and
10 others injured in the clashes. The hideouts attacked were in
Suran Darra, Wach Kohi, Khaili Kor, Baidmani and Wali Dad Kor
areas along the Afghanistan border.
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April 15 |
Two SFs personnel and a militant
were killed during a clash when a group of militants attacked
a security post in Khapyanga area of Kurram Agency in FATA. The
deceased SFs personnel were identified as Wasim Khan and Hakeem
Khan.
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April 16 |
Three TTP militants and a trooper
were killed during an encounter in Tangi Badinzai area of Laddah
tehsil in SWA of FATA in the night. The militants attacked a checkpoint
in Tangi Badinzai area, killing a member of security forces and
injuring two others. The sources said that three militants were
killed when SFs retaliated. An unnamed TTP 'spokesman' claimed
responsibility for the attack on the checkpoint.
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April 17 |
At least 600 IDPs families of
SWA will return home during the third phase of the repatriation
programme starting on April 30. These people belong to Berwand
and Maula Khan Serai areas of SWA. Some 900 families comprising
6,133 individuals returned to their homes in the first two phases
of the repatriation plan.
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April 18 |
Two militants were killed and
one SF sustained injuries during clashes in Koz Chamarkand area
of Safi tehsil in Mohmand Agency in FATA.
Unidentified militants shot dead
a tribesman, identified as Imdad Hussain, in Hewas village of
Kurram Agency.
SFs arrested a commander, identified
as Abdul Akbar, of TTP Chapter of Orakzai Agency belonging to
Hakeemullah Mehsud group along with his accomplice from a clinic
in Frontier Region Kohat.
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April 19 |
Fighter jets and helicopter gunships
bombed suspected militant hideouts in different areas, including
Suran Darra, Walidad Mena and Seem Ghakhi of Mohmand Agency in
FATA. However, no casualty was reported.
SFs neutralised four landmines
and recovered seven boxes of Kalashnikovs cartridges, 600 cartridges
of various calibres during search in Sheshmahal area of Pandyali
tehsil.
At least 80 militants, wanted
in various cases, surrendered before SFs in Safi tehsil.
A jirga of Masud Safi and Dawaizi
tribes in Mohmand Agency assured full cooperation to the SFs and
political administration and unanimously decided to impose PKR
two million fines and set ablaze the house of tribesman providing
shelter to militants in the area. Colonel Gul Hassan said that
the SFs had cleared almost 90 per cent of affected areas in Safi
and Dawaizi tehsils along the Afghanistan border.
The interlocutors and guarantors
of Kurram peace deal will meet in Islamabad to chalk out a strategy
for recovery of 35 passengers, who were abducted from Thall-Parachinar
Road in March 26, 2011.
Lawmakers and tribal elders of
Kurram Agency unanimously decided in Islamabad to take up the
issue of 35 passengers abducted from Thall-Parachinar Road on
March 26, 2011, with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor besides pressing
the SFs for ensuring safety on the route.
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April 20 |
Nine militants and one SF personnel
were killed during a clash and shelling in different areas of
Mohmand Agency in FATA.
The TTP killed a truck driver
and his helper in Baizai town of Mohmand Agency for supplying
livestock to East Afghanistan province of Nangarhar.
Masked militants slit the throat
of a tribesman, identified as Malang Meerak, for assisting SFs
in Sheen Drang area of Bara tehsil (revenue unit) in Khyber
Agency.
A spokesman of militant outfit
LI contradicted the news about fleeing of their leader Mangal
Bagh to Afghanistan. Talking from an undisclosed place the LI
spokesman said that Mangal Bagh was still in Tirah valley leading
his volunteers against Zakhakhel lashkar and Ansarul Islam.
Unidentified terrorists blew up
a commercial market belonging to a Naib Subedar of the Levies
Force in Ferozkhel area of Lower Orakzai Agency causing a loss
of PKR eight million.
Elsewhere in the Khyber Agency,
SFs arrested five suspected LI militants, identified as Sher Rehman,
Mohammad Rehman, Gulmir Khan, Yaqub Khan and Qabil Shah, from
Landikotal Bazaar.
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April 21 |
The bodies of eight abducted passengers
who were abducted on March 26 were found in Shahidano Dhand area
of lower Kurram Agency FATA, were handed to elders of Turi tribes.
The rest of the tribesmen are suspected to be in the custody of
Mullah Toofan faction of TTP, operating in parts of Orakzai and
Kurram Agencies.
TTP in Baizai District of Mohmand
Agency killed a truck driver and his helper for supplying cattle
to Afghanistan. It was reported that around 20 terrorists armed
with automatic weapons opened fire on three trucks soon after
they entered the Baizai District dropping supplies across the
border in east Afghanistan.
Around 23 terrorists, including
some senior commanders of Mamoond tehsil of Bajaur Agency, voluntarily
surrendered to the SFs.
Top 'commander' of TTP Waliur
Rehman praised Mehsud tribe for not siding with the Government
against Taliban in the South Waziristan Agency. "We congratulate
the Mehsud tribe for rendering great sacrifices," Rehman said,
adding, "Fellow tribesmen would always demonstrate such character
in future. The Government had formed tribal militias against Mujahideen,
however these militias were unable to fulfil the objectives set
by the Government.
It was reported that the Army
claimed to have cleared the Suran sector in Mohmand Agency of
militants and initiated the consolidation phase II of 'Operation
Brekhna' launched to clear Suran sector adjoining Afghanistan
border.
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April 22 |
At least 25 persons were killed
when US drone attack a compound owned by a tribesman, Gul Sharif
Wazir, in Yazz Khula village of Spinwam area in North Waziristan
Agency of FATA. Earlier The News reported that seven people
were killed. Out of 25 persons, 18 were militants and seven were
civilians.
TTP militants abducted a pro-government
tribal elder Malak Sher Khan alias Sheray from his house
in Gakizai area of Lakkaro tehsil in Mohammad Agency. Later,
his body was found in the area. The TTP Mohmand chapter 'spokesman'
Sajjad Mohmand told reporters that they had killed him for having
close links with political authorities. He said the man was going
to head a tribal lashkar against TTP.
In another incident in the same
area, a six-year-old girl was killed when a landmine planted by
unidentified militants in front of her house exploded.
At least 63 militants laid down
arms and surrendered to the Security Forces at a jirga at Dwaizai
in Mohammad Agency. Sixty-two of them belonged to Dwaizai, Pandyali
tehsil and one to Sagai area of Safi tehsil.
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April 23 |
SFs killed six militants and neutralised
two hideouts in Khadezai area of Orakzai Agency in FATA. Officials
said that a curfew was imposed in the area to carry out a search
operation, adding that during the operation an encounter took
place between the SFs and militants. Six militants were killed
and two hideouts were destroyed, an official said, adding that
landmines and explosives were recovered.
A suicide bomber struck the vehicle
of an anti-Taliban militia leader killing him and four others
in Salarzai area, 65 kilometres (40 miles) northeast of Khar,
the main town of Bajaur Agency. "A suicide bomber blew himself
up before the vehicle of Malik Manasib Khan killing him and four
others including a paramilitary soldier and wounding five others,"
Police official Javed Khan said. Malik Manasib Khan was the chief
of Salarzai tribe, which had raised a village force and expelled
TTP militants from their area. He was on a patrol along with paramilitary
officials when the suicide bomber struck.
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April 24 |
The body of a local trader, identified
as Jauhar Ali, who was abducted by unidentified assailants near
his hometown Khungi in Dir town of Dir District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
was found dead in Alizai area of Arang in Bajaur Agency in FATA.
A woman was killed when a stray
shell hit a house in the Kamalkhel village of Kandahari area of
Safi tehsil of Mohmand Agency.
Gunship helicopters continued
to shell suspected positions in the Sheikh Baba area of Safi tehsil.
However, no casualties were reported.
Five accused on suspicion of involvement
in the abduction and killing of a tribal elder, Sher Mohammad,
were arrested. Mohammad was reported to be abducted on April 22.
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April 25 |
Militants released a trader, Haji
Asghar Hussain Turi, also a former agency councillor, after receiving
PKR 5.4 million as ransom in Kurram Agency of FATA. The abducted
trader, Haji Asghar Hussain Turi, had been kidnapped along with
35 other passengers when militants attacked a convoy at Beggan
area of Kurram Agency on March 26. Three passengers had also been
killed and two others injured in the attack. The bodies of seven
hostages were found in Shaheedan Dhand area near Afghan border.
Narrating his ordeal, Haji Asghar Hussain Turi said that he was
going in the convoy from Peshawar to Parachinar when militants
attacked it near Beggan. He said that he jumped off the vehicle,
ran away and hid in the nearby fields but local people captured
him. He said that he was carrying PKR 600,000 cash with him at
the time of attack on the convoy. He said that local people, who
captured him, snatched the amount from him and later handed him
over to militants. He said that he had no information about the
other hostages.
Federal Minister of Interior Rehman
Malik assured the National Assembly that law-enforcement personnel
would be deployed within two days to secure the Thall-Parachinar
road in Kurram Agency and help the besieged people of the area.
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April 27 |
The dead bodies of three LI militants
were found in various areas in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency in
FATA. The body of Mohammad Ayub alias Boda, a local 'commander'
of LI, was found in Sepah area of Bara.
Omar Hayat, an abducted lineman
of TESCO, reached his home after he was released by his abductors.
Six linemen of TESCO were abducted on January 8, 2011 by unidentified
militants from Alamgudar area of Bara. One of them, Jan Mohammad,
was released in the first week of February while Sabir Mohammad
was freed one week ago. Aftab Hussain, Fateh Mohammad and Niaz
Ali were freed on April 24 and Omar Hayat was released on April
27.
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April 28 |
At least 33 militants, two pro-Government
tribesmen and one trooper were killed in separate incidents in
Kurram, Orakzai and Mohmand Agencies of FATA. Helicopter gunships
pounded three militant hideouts in Mirandy, Sangraba and Chinarak
areas of Kurram Agency, killing 25 militants and two tribal volunteers
while injuring several others.
Eight militants were killed when
SFs pounded suspected militant hideouts with heavy artillery in
Khadizai and Mamozai areas of Orakzai Agency. Three hideouts were
destroyed. SFs recovered a cache of weapons and dismantled several
landmines in Ghaljo, Kandi Kalli and Takhshak villages.
A trooper was killed and five
were injured when a landmine hit a security patrol in Ghalingar
area of Safi tehsil in Mohmand Agency.
A rural health centre was blown
up by unidentified militants in Dhand Kodakhel area of the Mohmand
Agency.
The Zakhakhel lashkar captured
the main mountain tops from the LI militants in their fresh offensive
in Khare Mela, Khar Ghot, Maidanak and Mangal Bagh Kandaoe, an
official of Khasadar Force said. According to a Khasadar official,
the Zakhakhel tribe and the forces have controlled most of the
areas of Zakhakhel Bazaar, adding that only Soor Ghar mountain
was still under the occupation of LI fighters, which would soon
be taken over. He further said that now the whole Zakhakhel Bazaar
area was under the control of SFs and the Zakhakhel lashkar.
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May 01 |
At least 25 militants and a trooper
were killed and several were injured in Baizai tehsil of Mohmand
Agency in FATA when SFs destroyed their hideouts by gunship helicopters.
According to sources, SFs targeted terrorist hideouts in the rural
areas of Baizai tehsil near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border including
Soran Dara, Sheikh Baba and Walidad Kor, destroying many hideouts.
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May 02 |
Seven LI militants were killed
and two others injured in an aerial firing by the SFs in the remote
Bazaar Zakha Khel area near Khar Ghot in Landikotal town of Khyber
Agency in FATA.
Two blasts hit two NATO oil tankers
in separate incidents in Khyber Agency. An oil tanker, carrying
fuel for the US led NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan, was
blown up near Ali Masjid in a bomb blast. In the second incident,
a bomb blast hit a NATO oil tanker at Torkham town.
A general store was also destroyed
due to a powerful bomb blast near Charwazgai checkpost in Landikotal
town of Khyber Agency.
A MNA Sajid Hussain Turi belonging
to Parachinar, the capital of Kurram Agency, demanded the Government
to launch a military operation against the TTP in Kurram Agency
for killing hundreds of innocent people and to restore the Thal-Parachinar
road, which links the region to the rest of the country. Criticizing
the Government for its non-serious attitude in resolving the issue,
he said, "I boycotted the National Assembly's session last week
and I will continue to protest till our demands are fulfilled".
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May 04 |
Ten militants were killed and
as many others injured in a clash between the Hafiz Daulat and
Nabi groups in Kurrat area in Kurram Agency in FATA. Both groups
used light and heavy weaponry and fired mortar shells at each
other's positions.
A soldier was killed and four
others were injured when TTP ambushed SFs convoy in Serwakai area
of South Waziristan Agency. Sources said that SFs were returning
to their base camp after conducting a raid and search operation
in the area when they came under attack. The SFs retaliated but
the militants managed to escape.
Unidentified assailants killed
a local person hours after abducting him from Bara Bazaar of Bara
tehsil. Sources said that assailants abducted three persons, including
two hailing from Punjab. Identity of the killed one could not
be established immediately.
Also in Bara, a 10-year-old girl
Nazia was killed when a mortar shell fired by SFs fell on the
house of Qismat Khan in Zangal Kallay of Malakdin Khel area.
Unidentified armed assailants
opened fire on a truck in the Mohsinzai area of Kurram Agency,
injuring the driver, identified as Noori. A number of militants
have shifted to Kurram Agency due to the military operation in
Orakzai Agency and are allegedly engaged in hostilities against
the local population and SFs.
Three rockets were fired at Wana
scouts camp in intervening night of May 3-4. No loss of life or
property was reported. Sources said that soon after the rocket
attack security SFs pounded suspected locations in Doag, Korezai,
Peer Bagh and Musa Qilla areas with light and heavy weapons. Musa
Qilla, which is considered a stronghold of TTP, was also hit during
the firing, which continued for at least one hour. Sources added
that a centre of TTP in Musa Qilla was slightly damaged in the
firing. However, no loss of life was reported from the area.
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May 05 |
One militant was killed and two
others were injured when SFs shelled suspected locations in Baizai
tehsil of Mohmand Agency in FATA. Sources said that SFs pounded
militant positions in Baizai area near Afghan border. A militant,
identified as Mukamal Shah, was killed while his two accomplices
were injured in the action.
A shepherd, identified as Naseer
(15), was injured when a landmine exploded in Ashrafabad locality
of Khwazai tehsil in Mohmand Agency.
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May 06 |
The US drones fired missiles into
a compound in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan Agency in FATA,
killing at least 17 militants. Four US drones took part in the
attack which came just four days after US commandos shot dead
top al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the garrison city of Abbottabad.
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May 08 |
Two FC personnel were killed in
an explosion in Asman Manza area of South Waziristan Agency (SWA)
in FATA in the morning. Sources said that the FC personnel were
going from Kaniguram to Laddah when they were hit by an explosive
device. The deceased were identified as Shan and Mashan.
Intelligence sources in Dera Ismail
Khan and Wana, headquarters of South SWA, said that a member of
the 13-man committee of the Hakeemullah Mehsud led TTP was killed
in an attack by the rival Qari Zainuddin faction. Sources said
that the slain, Mufti Noor Wali, was an important 'commander'
of the Hakeemullah group.
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May 09 |
Militants killed a tribesman,
identified as Shamsur Rehman, from Orakzai Agency in FATA on charges
of spying in Khwasi Banda area of Kohat District. Waris Khan,
victim's brother, alleged Bilal and Behram for the killing of
Shamsur Rehman and said that his family had been receiving threats
from TTP for quite long.
Differences which cropped up among
the leaders of Adezai Qaumi Lashkar over the deployment of law-enforcers
in their area, raised fears that the TTP may exploit the situation.
According to official sources Dilawar Khan, who heads lashkar
and his deputy Fazal Malik were not ready to accept each other's
leadership any longer.
The elders of Khyber Agency in
FATA expressed grave concern over military operations and killing
of innocent people in drone attacks. They demanded immediate end
to military operations in the tribal areas. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
leader Iqbal Afridi said that after killing of al Qaeda leader
Osama bin Laden there was no logic in continuing drone attacks.
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May 11 |
Bomb disposal squad neutralised
an explosive device planted at a house in Ustarzai village in
Orakzai Agency of FATA. Police said that unidentified militants
had planted an improvised explosive device, filled with liquid
and attached to non-electric fuse and cartridges of 12 bore.
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May 12 |
A US drone fired two missiles
into a vehicle in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan Agency in
FATA, killing at least eight suspected militants. However, the
identities of those killed have not been confirmed.
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May 13 |
Three militants were killed when
a US drone fired two missiles into a vehicle in the Kharkamar
area, 40 kilometres west of Miranshah, in the North Waziristan
Agency of FATA.
Eight tankers carrying oil for
NATO forces in Afghanistan were destroyed after a blast ripped
through a parking lot at Torkham along the Afghan border in Khyber
Agency. A group identifying itself as Abdullah Ezam Brigade claimed
responsibility for the blast.
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May 14 |
Five militants were killed and
several injured in a clash during the ongoing Army operation Brekhna
(Thunder) in Suran Dara area of Mohmand Agency in FATA. The TTP
'spokesman' also admitted that three militants were killed in
the exchange of fire with SFs. SFs claimed more gains in violence-plagued
Baizai and Safi tehsil of Mohmand Agency.
Five SFs personnel and two civilians
were injured when a landmine exploded in Bankhel area of Safi
tehsil in Mohmand Agency. Sources said that soldiers were patrolling
the area when explosive device planted on a dirt track in Bankhel
area near Afghanistan border went off. Five soldiers, a girl and
a driver received injuries, sources added.
Militants fired seven rockets
at the residence of chief of Haleemzai Peace Committee, Haji Mohammad
Ali, in Haleemzai tehsil in the night. The committee head remained
unhurt.
Bomb Disposal Squad neutralised
an eight-kilogram IED in Yakaghund area of Mohmand Agency.
Unidentified militants blew off
Haji Mawez Kaley Government Boys' Primary School in Bakarabad
area of Jamrud tehsil in Khyber Agency in the night. However,
no loss of life was reported in the incident. The attack brings
to 3, the total number of schools destroyed in Jamrud while the
tally stands at 40 in the whole of Khyber Agency.
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May 15 |
TTP militants killed two persons
after accusing them of spying for the United States in the Nawi
Adda and Boya areas of the Datta Khel areas in North Waziristan
Agency of FATA.
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May 16 |
At least 12 militants were killed
and another four injured in twin US drone attack in Mir Ali Town,
some 40 kilometres east of Miranshah, in North Waziristan Agency
of FATA.
Two children were killed and another
injured when one of them stepped on a landmine, planted by unidentified
militants, in the empty house of Shah Nawaz in Wali Kor area of
Safi tehsil in Mohmand Agency.
A member of anti-Taliban peace
committee was shot dead by militants in Jawaki village of Frontier
Region Kohat. Militants claimed that they killed Ghani who had
attended a jirga the other day.
Three persons, including a woman,
were injured when militants attacked Shalowzan and Khaiwas villages
with heavy weapons in Kurram Agency. The attackers fired rockets,
mortar shells and other heavy weapons from their hideouts Tangi
and Nari areas at both the villages.
A Government-run school was blown
up in Mamond area of Bajaur Agency. Locals said unidentified militants
planted IED at Government primary school for boys in Gari Yagal
area. The number of destroyed schools in Bajaur Agency has reached
to 106.
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May 17 |
The dead bodies of two tribesmen,
killed on charges of spying for the US, were found in North Waziristan
Agency of FATA. The body of Sakhi Jan was found on Miramshah-Madakhel
Road and another body of one Gul Zaman found in Derga Mandai area.
Two soldiers, identified as Basharat
and Ajmal, were killed and another received injuries in a landmine
explosion in Dabori area of upper tehsil in Orakzai Agency.
Two NATO helicopters violated
Pakistan's airspace at Admi Kot post in North Waziristan Agency.
The troops stationed at the post fired at the intruding helicopters
and, as a result of exchange of fire, two of Pakistan Army soldiers
received injuries.
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May 20 |
16 persons, including 8 members
of a family, were killed when NATO oil tankers were set ablaze
in two separate incidents at Landikotal and Torkham areas of Khyber
Agency in FATA. The sources said in the first incident at 10:30
p.m. the militants torched a NATO oil tanker in Khugakhel area
on the Landikotal bypass. The tanker was parked on the roadside
when it was dynamited with a time device, the sources said. Six
people died immediately after the incident while injured were
taken to hospitals where 10 more succumbed to their injuries.
Second incident took place after a few minutes at Torkham where
an explosive device went off in an oil tanker at the Torkham parking
hub, officials said. Soon after the blast, the fire spread and
engulfed three more oil tankers parked near it.
Six persons were killed when missiles
fired by a US drone hit their car near Esha Check post in the
North Waziristan Agency. Sources said that two missiles were fired
at the vehicle going from Miramshah to Spalga village.
SFs targeted militant positions
in Khadezai area of Orakzai Agency with artillery fire, killing
six suspected militants. Two hideouts were destroyed.
Five TTP militants were killed
when a double-cabin vehicle on its way to Sadda in Kurram Agency
from Mamozai, went off near the border area of Ghunza in Orakzai
Agency.
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May 21 |
Eight militants were killed when
helicopter gunships pounded their positions in Khadezai and Saigel
Darra areas of Orakzai Agency in FATA. Sources said that four
militant hideouts were also destroyed in the shelling. Militants
have established hideouts in the upper tehsil, which is still
not in the control of SFs.
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May 23 |
Eight militants and a soldier
were killed during a clash in Suran Darra area of Mohmand Agency
of FATA. Three personnel of SFs were also injured in the clash.
Seven militants were killed when
a US drone strike destroyed a vehicle on the outskirts of Mir
Ali, around 30 kilometres east of Miranshah, in North Waziristan
Agency.
Three LI militants were killed
while six volunteers of the Zakha Khel tribe sustained bullets
injuries during a clash between Mangal Bagh led LI and Zakha Khel
volunteers in Zakha Khel area of Khyber Agency. The LI militants
had reportedly tried to capture some of the posts in Soor Ghar
and Alwayi, but the Zakha Khel militia repulsed their attack,
administration sources said.
A volunteer of Sultan Peace Committee,
identified as Sher Afzal, was injured in a landmine explosion
in Utmankhel area of Baizai tehsil.
A truck driver and two labourers
were abducted by TTP militants in Bahai Dag area of Khwezai tehsil
in Mohmand Agency.
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May 24 |
A militant 'commander', Fareed
Marwat, was killed and three tribesmen were injured during clashes
in Balishkhel and Khar Kallay areas of Kurram Agency in FATA.
Sources said that militant 'commander' Fareed Marwat was a resident
of Lakki Marwat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Three members
of Turi tribe were also injured in the fighting, sources added.
TTP militants, coming from Darra
Adamkhel, set ablaze 15 houses in Jammu area in Frontier Region
Kohat. The residents of the area had raised an armed lashkar against
TTP.
Deadlock was reported in the talks
with militants for safe release of 31 abducted passengers. Sources
said that TTP demanded PKR 60 million as ransom for release of
31 Turi tribesmen, who were abducted by them on March 26.
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May 25 |
Four persons were killed and 18
others received injuries in the Balishkhel area of Upper Kurram
Agency of FATA ahead of ceasefire agreement between the warring
tribes of Shia and Sunni sects. To bring an end to clashes in
different areas of the Agency, the elders of Turi and Bangash
tribes during a meeting with the political authorities and FC
officials in Parachinar agreed to take urgent steps for a truce
and restoration of lasting peace in the volatile tribal region.
The elders of six tribes of Ahle Sunnat had already declared a
unilateral ceasefire in Sadda tehsil on May 24.
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May 26 |
Four persons were killed and five
others injured during a clash between a lashkar of Zaka Khel tribesmen
and LI in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency in FATA. Sources said
that number of casualties might increase as the fierce gunbattle,
which started when tribesmen tried to take control of the LI's
trenches at Narray Baba, still continued between the two rivals.
Identification of those killed and their links to either group
could not be ascertained.
TTP fired a mortar shell at a
military checkpoint near Miranshah in North Waziristan Agency
but there were no casualties.
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May 27 |
At least 23 militants were killed
when the Army fighter jets pounded militants' hideouts in Orakzai
and Kurram Agencies of FATA. Air strikes were carried out in Mamozai,
Akhonkot and Bilras areas in upper tehsil of Orakzai Agency. However,
the claim about casualties could not be verified from independent
sources. Warplanes also hit targets in central tehsil of Kurram
Agency.
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May 28 |
Eight persons were killed and
11 others injured when a suicide bomber targeted pro-government
tribal elders at a market in Salarzai village of Bajaur Agency
in FATA. The TTP 'spokesman', Ahsanullah Ahsan, claimed responsibility,
saying the elders were targeted because they were helping the
Security Forces.
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May 29 |
Pakistan has decided to launch
an air and ground military offensive in North Waziristan Agency
of FATA. The United States has long demanded that Pakistan launch
an offensive in the region to hunt down the Haqqani network, one
of the deadliest Afghan militant factions fighting American troops
in Afghanistan. Pakistan has been reluctant, but has come under
intense US pressure to attack militancy after it was discovered
that Osama bin Laden had been living there. Quoting unnamed "highly
placed sources" as saying Pakistani Air Force planes would soften
up militant targets under the "targeted military offensive" before
ground operations were launched.
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May 30 |
A girl was killed and 10 others
got injured in bomb blast at a local hotel in Miranshah of North
Waziristan Agency in FATA. The bomb planted on the rooftop of
the hotel in the main bazaar of Miranshah went off at around 11am,
wounding 10 people, including three women and four children. A
girl succumbed to her wounds after reaching hospital.
Humanitarian agencies active in
northwest tribal areas have been quietly told to prepare for up
to 365,000 displaced people in advance of a military offensive
against North Waziristan Agency, a senior official with an international
humanitarian agency said. "Humanitarian agencies operating in
FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were given the heads up two weeks
ago by the authorities of a possible displacement of up to 50,000
families," he said, referring to the Federally Administered Tribal
Areas and the northwest province. A similar tip-off in 2009 preceded
a military offensive in neighbouring South Waziristan by about
five months, he said.
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May 31 |
Pakistani warplanes attacked TTP
militants in Mirkalam Khel and Akhon Kot areas of the north western
Orakzai Agency in FATA killing 18 terrorists. It is suspected
that TTP commander, Tariq, who leads militants in Darra Adam Khel
area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, could also be among the dead.
At least four oil tankers were
completely destroyed in a blast in one of the vehicles at the
Torkham border while carrying fuel for the NATO forces in Afghanistan.
It was reported that the armed
forces will carry out a limited operation in North Waziristan
Agency primarily targeting al Qaeda, TTP and foreign militants,
as against the widely held belief that the focus will be exclusively
on the Haqqani Network. Military commanders ruled out the possibility
of a full scale operation like the one launched in South Waziristan
and said it was 'unfeasible' because of difference in ground realities.
South Waziristan, they said, was a "no-go area" when they launched
a major military offensive in October 2009 to flush out terrorists.
"But the northern part has a massive presence of military and
there are peace pacts with tribes that cannot be ignored."
A senior officer said, "The operation
will be very selective and intelligence led." The major target,
it is said, will be the TTP militants who took refuge in North
Waziristan after having been dislodged from south. "It will indeed
be a big achievement if we succeed in neutralising some of the
suicide bomber training centres," added another officer.
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June 1 |
The members of Akakhel Peace Committee
shot dead two captives of LI to avenge killing of one of their
volunteers in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency in FATA.
SFs recovered a huge quantity
of oil, allegedly stolen from the tankers supplying fuel to NATO
forces in Afghanistan, from the warehouse of Umar Gul in Landi
Kotal.
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June 3 |
Top al Qaeda leader and 'head'
of HuJI, Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in a US drone strike in Wana
Bazaar area of South Waziristan Agency in FATA at 11:15 pm along
with another eight militants. A hand-written brief statement in
Urdu-language from a 'spokesman' of the HuJI, Abu Hamzullah Kasher,
distributed in Wana Bazaar on June 4 afternoon, confirmed that
Kashmiri was killed. "Harkatul Jihad al-Islami's 313 Brigade confirms
that in Friday's drone attack at 11:15pm our 'commander-in-chief',
Muhammad Ilyas Kashmiri, was martyred," the spokesman, Abu Hamzullah
Kasher said in the statement. "We have received reports of his
death. But we are waiting for conclusive evidence to confirm that
Kashmiri has been killed with nine other terrorists," an unnamed
security official told Daily Times. "What is confirmed is that
he (Kashmiri) was seen two days back at the site of the attack,"
the officials said. "Testimonies of the injured will clear the
situation when they speak out," he added.
Ilyas Kashmiri is believed to
having planned the deadly attack on Navy's airbase PNS Mehran
in Karachi on May 22. "We will certainly give the US a revengeful
reply," added the HuJI spokesman Abu Hamzullah Kasher.
Four persons, including three
SFs officials, were injured in a hand grenade attack on a check
post in Ghundi area of Jamrud tehsil in Khyber Agency.
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June 4 |
Unidentified militants blew up
a boys' school at Shalobar area in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency,
taking the total number of destroyed schools to 42 in the last
two years. However, no casualties were reported in the incident.
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June 5 |
Two rockets were fired on the
FC and Khasadar Force checkposts by unidentified militants in
Zayarai area of Landikotal tehsil in Khyber Agency. The rockets
fired from the surrounding hilltops, however, missed the targets,
sources added. No causality was reported in the incident. Around
10 tribesmen of the area were detained under the Frontier Crimes
Regulation Act.
Militants blew up the house of
former agency councillor Haji Khiyal Zaman on suspicion of patronising
a local peace committee in Akkakhel area of Khyber Agency.
LI pasted leaflets in different
parts of Malakdin Khel locality in Bara subdivision of Khyber
Agency, warning residents not to allow their women to travel alone
or without a close male family member. "Husbands would be penalised
heavily if they allow their wives to travel alone in any public
transport vehicle," the pamphlet warned. It threatened local residents,
especially youth, to desist from shaving and uploading musical
ring tones in their cellular phones. "The violators will be heavily
fined," it warned further. The pamphlets were appeared at a time
when SFs are engaged in a full-fledged military operation against
the outfit and local residents are subjected to unspecified hours
of curfew in different parts of Bara. Although Government claims
that military operation in Bara subdivision of Khyber Agency is
successful, LI proved its presence by distributing leaflets in
different areas.
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June 6 |
Eighteen militants were killed
in three US drone strikes in South Waziristan Agency of FATA.
Earlier, Dawn reported that only seven militants were killed.
The first strike killed seven terrorists in the early hours in
Shalam Raghzai, 10 kilometres northwest of Wana, the Agency's
main town. The second one struck a compound in Wacha Dana, 12
kilometres northwest of Wana, killing eight terrorists. The third
hit eight hours later in the Dray Nishtar area, which lies on
the border with North Waziristan at 10:45am local time, around
30 kilometres from the site of the other two raids. "A US drone
fired two missiles on a terrorist vehicle killing three rebels,"
a senior Pakistani security official said, talking about the third
attack.
TTP threatened to attack American
targets abroad to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden. Omar Khalid
Khorasani, the top TTP 'commander' in Mohmand Agency said that
the recent attacks in Pakistan were only the start of bloody reprisals
after Osama bin Laden's death. "These attacks were just a part
of our revenge. God willing, the world will see how we avenge
Osama bin Laden's martyrdom," said Khorasani. "We have networks
in several countries outside Pakistan."
Ahmedzai Wazir tribes won local
TTP 'commanders' support during a Jirga to keep the 2007 'peace
deal' going in South Waziristan after a US drone strike killed
dreaded terrorist leader Ilyas Kashmiri on June 3, Ahmedzai Wazir
tribe elders said. "The TTP 'commanders' understood Pakistan could
do little to stop these drone attacks and assured they will not
break the 2007 peace deal the TTP reached with the Ahmedzai Wazir
tribes in reaction to the killing of senior militant leader Kashmiri,"
a tribal elder told Daily Times by phone from Wana, after returning
from the jirga.
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June 7 |
Five militants and one trooper,
Nahid Gul, were killed when militants from Afghanistan attacked
a check post in Patala area of lower Kurram Agency in FATA near
the Pakistan Afghanistan border. Also, another trooper, identified
as Azeem Khan was abducted during the attack.
Eight NATO oil tankers were destroyed
in an explosion near Torkham Border in Khyber Agency before crossing
into neighbouring Afghanistan. However, no loss of life was reported
in the incident.
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June 8 |
US missile strikes hit a militant
training facility and a suspected vehicle in North Waziristan
Agency of FATA, killing 24 militants. At least 20 terrorists were
killed when US drone aircraft fired four missiles at a fortress-like
terrorist training camp in Zawai Narai area of Shawal tehsil.
Five militants and two SF personnel
were killed when militants laid an ambush on the patrol party
with automatic weapons and rocket propelled grenades in the Shaheedan
Dhand area of Kurram Agency.
Maulvi Nazir faction of TTP vows
to escalate anti-US fight in Afghanistan in response to intensified
drone missile strikes on its territory. Maulvi Younus, one of
Nazir's senior 'commanders' said that "Because the United States
is launching these strikes we will send more fighters to Afghanistan
and step up our operations against US forces". "We have no other
option. We have no weapons which shoot them (drone aircraft) down
so we will fight the United States in Afghanistan."
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June 9 |
At least 150 militants armed with
rockets attacked a security checkpost in Marubi village near Makeen
Town in North Waziristan Agency of FATA, killing eight soldiers.
Twelve militants were also killed in retaliatory firing by SFs.
An explosive device planted in
the driving seat of a NATO oil tanker went off in Changai area
in Landikotal town of Khyber Agency in FATA. During the last one
month some 40 oil tankers have been destroyed in blasts in this
area.
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June 11 |
Five militants were killed and
nine others were injured when jet fighters pounded their hideouts
in different areas of Baizai tehsil along Afghanistan border
in Mohmand Agency of FATA.
A sub-engineer of works and services
department, Abul Khair, was abducted by unidentified militants
on way to his office in agency headquarters Ghalanai.
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June 12 |
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl Chief
Maulana Fazlur Rehman said that the Pakistan Army will face deadly
suicide attacks if it undertakes operations in North Waziristan.
"If Pakistani forces enter North Waziristan, they will face deadly
suicide attacks," Maulana Fazlur told reporters in an interaction.
The military is planning to enlist
pro-Government tribal elders in a fresh campaign it has devised
to flush out al Qaeda militants and its affiliates from North
Waziristan, unnamed army officials said. The move is aimed at
deflecting growing US pressure for a full-scale offensive against
the Haqqani Network. Under the plan, local tribesmen have been
urged to form lashkars, to take out 'hard-core al Qaeda elements
and their affiliates'. The idea was not only discussed in the
recently held meeting of the corps commanders but was also taken
up during discussions between Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez
Kayani and CIA chief Leon Panetta.
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June 13 |
Three Punjab Regiment personnel
were killed and four others sustained injuries when a remote-controlled
bomb planted by suspected militants hit their vehicle in the Ghundai
Sra area of South Waziristan Agency in FATA. The slain personnel
were identified as Naik Liaquat, Mahdum and Farhat while injured
personnel were Qutbuddin, Asad, Nehal, and Wali Dad.
A Levies Force official was killed
and four civilians were injured when their vehicle hit a landmine
in Ibrahimzai area of Orakzai Agency. The Levies personnel, identified
as Ansar Ali, was going to Kalaya.
At least seven tankers carrying
fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan were burnt to ashes when a
bomb planted in one of the vehicles exploded at a terminal in
Torkham border area in Khyber Agency. There were no reports of
any casualties.
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June 15 |
Three US drone attacks killed
18 suspected militants in South and North Waziristan Agencies
of FATA. Drone missiles targeted a vehicle and a compound near
Wana, the main town in South Waziristan Agency, killing 10 persons.
The victims were believed to be allied with Maulvi Nazir, a prominent
militant commander in the area.
Four missiles hit a vehicle carrying
suspected militants from Razmak road to Tappi area, some 10 kilometres
east of Miranshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan Agency.
All eight militants on board the vehicle were killed.
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June 16 |
More than 300 militants crossed
the border from Kunar province of Afghanistan to Khar area of
Bajaur Agency in FATA at around 4:00am, resulting in hours of
clashes that left 15 persons dead. The dead included nine militants,
three lashkar volunteers, a soldier and two women, sources said.
A blast in a NATO oil tanker destroyed
a trailer and a car in Landikotal town of Khyber Agency. An explosive
device fitted to the tanker carrying more than forty thousand
litres of fuel to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, was detonated
on Landikotal Bazaar bypass.
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June 17 |
SFs backed by artillery killed
12 militants during a search operation in the Mamond area of the
Bajaur Agency in FATA. Government official Tariq Khan said the
operation was launched after fresh intelligence reports on terrorists
coming from Afghanistan to the area to target tribal militiamen
and troops stationed there.
Four militants were killed and
five others were injured when jet fighters bombed suspected hideouts
near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the Baizai tehsil of Mohmand
Agency. The SFs continued their operation against militants and
fighter planes targeted hideouts in Wali Dad Meena, Metai and
Shonkrai areas of Baizai tehsil.
Three women were killed and two
children sustained injuries when a mortar shell fired by a militant
group hit their house in Tirah in Orakzai Agency.
Suspected militants abducted and
later slit the throat of a telephone lineman, identified as Gul
Zamin, in the Bara area of Khyber Agency.
The Pakistani Foreign Ministry
lodged a complaint with the American Embassy about a NATO aircraft
incursion around 2.5 km inside Pakistani territory. Officials
in Mohmand Agency in FATA said the incursion occurred on June
17 and a few bombs were dropped but no casualties were reported.
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June 18 |
A group of militants attacked
a Security checkpost in Ladha town in South Waziristan Agency
of FATA, triggering a gunfight, which killed one soldier and four
militants. "One soldier was killed and two were injured in the
attack, four militants were also killed in the retaliatory fire,"
a Security official said in Peshawar, the main city in the northwest.
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June 19 |
At least 50 terrorists attacked
a paramilitary checkpoint in Walidad area of Mohmand Agency in
FATA near the Afghan border, triggering a clash that killed four
soldiers and up to 25 terrorists. Warplanes pounded a terrorist
stronghold in the Mohmand Agency on the Afghan border in an operation
that left 25 terrorists dead, the military said. Pakistan Army,
paramilitary troops and the Air Force launched a joint operation
"to evict terrorists' stronghold of Walidad" in Mohmand, it said.
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June 20 |
12 militants, nine of them from
the Haqqani network, were killed when US drones hit a compound
in Khardand area of Kurram Agency in FATA.
Dozens of terrorists attacked
the homes of two tribal elders, killing six persons in Ziarat
Masood village of Mohmand Agency.
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June 21 |
Hundreds of Islamic scholars
in North Waziristan Agency of FATA declared suicide bombings unlawful
and asked all foreign militants hiding in the area to stop such
attacks. About 300 religious scholars unanimously agreed on the
move to declare suicide attacks as "haram" or forbidden by Islam
and condemned all forms of terrorist activities in North Waziristan
Agency. |
June 22 |
Six militants were killed in a
clash with SFs in Dabori area of Orakzai Agency in FATA on the
morning. Sources said that the clash ensued when a group of militants
attacked a security post in Dabori area with heavy weapons. A
trooper was injured in the attack.
Two Khasadar personnel, identified
as Naib Subedar Hiran Shah Afridi and his companion Yar Wazir,
were killed in a bomb blast at a Police checkpoint in the town
of Jamrud in Khyber Agency. Two other Khasadar personnel, identified
as Amjad and Abdul Wajid, sustained serious injuries in the blast.
A pedestrian, identified as Maqbool
Shah, was injured in another blast on the main road near TD Bazaar
in Jamrud. Nobody has so far claimed responsibility for any of
these incidents.
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June 23 |
At least five persons were killed
and three others injured as fighting between volunteers of Zakhakhel
Qaumi Lashkar and LI intensified in Tora Vela of Tirah valley
in Khyber Agency of FATA.
A khasadar, identified as Ajab
Khan, was killed by unidentified militants in Jawaki area of Frontier
Region Kohat.
A 132KV power pylon was blown
up by unidentified militants disrupting power supply to Parachinar
and parts of Upper Kurram Agency.
The Chief of Army Staff General
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said that Army would be withdrawn from the
FATA when tribal people were able to take up their responsibilities.
Addressing two separate jirgas of Ahmedzai Wazir and Mehsud tribes
in Wana and Chegmalai areas of South Waziristan Agency, General
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said the Army had played an important role
in eradicating militancy and restoring peace in the region.
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June 24 |
At least 10 militants were killed
when the fighter jets of Pakistani Air Force bombarded suspected
militant hideouts in Kurram Agency of FATA along the Pak-Afghan
border.
|
June 25 |
At least 15 militants were killed
in the faction clash between the supporters of two TTP 'commanders'
near the Afghan border in Orakzai Agency of FATA.
|
June 26 |
At least 250 families have moved
out of central Kurram Agency of FATA after the start of an operation
by the Security Forces against militants. According to a private
TV channel, a camp has been set up at New Durrani village with
a capacity to accommodate 1,500 families.
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June 27 |
At least 27 militants were killed
in two drone strikes in South Waziristan Agency of FATA. In the
first strike, a missile hit a moving vehicle in Ghalmandi Panga
village on the Afghan border. A few hours later, another drone
fired three missiles into a terrorist training centre in Mantoi
town. So far this year (2011), drones have carried out around
40 strikes on terrorist hideouts in the mountainous tribal belt,
killing over 300 militants out of which 88 terrorists were killed
in June.
Unidentified armed militants shot
dead one Shakirullah Shakir, a TTP 'commander' who was affiliated
with TTP wing of suicide bombers Fidayeen-e-Islam and helped train
and deploy the suicide bombers in Miranshah town of North Waziristan
Agency.
Militants destroyed a school in
Qambarkhel area of Khyber Agency.
SFs foiled an attack on a convoy
of local people coming from Peshawar towards Parachinar in Kurram
Agency and arrested a militant from the Agency's Bigan area.
Curfew was lifted in Qambarkhel
area after local elders agreed to dismantle all private jails,
run by local militant outfits, and hand over wanted militants
to SFs till June 30. "The elders were told that no seminary would
be allowed to be established and operate in the area without official
permission," they added.
Volunteers of Zakhakhel tribal
lashkar have taken control of one of LI strongholds in Baz Garha
area in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency.
SFs established new checkpoints
at Jarhobi locality of Bazaar-Zakhakhel area after clearing the
area of militants after six years.
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June 28 |
A senior TTP 'commander', Shakir,
who helped train and deploy suicide bombers was shot dead by unidentified
assailants at the Qutab Khel area on Bannu- Miranshah road near
Miranshah, the headquarter of North Waziristan Agency, in Federally
Administered Tribal Agency at around 4:00 pm. Sources said that
Shakir, a resident of South Waziristan, was riding a motorcycle
when unidentified assailants in a vehicle with tinted windows
sprayed bullets on him. Shakir was a close aide of TTP's chief
trainer of suicide bombers Qari Hussain and had also served as
his spokesperson for some time. Fidayeen-e-Islam, a branch within
the TTP, was responsible for training of suicide bombers and was
headed by Qari Hussain, famously known as ''Ustad-e-Fedayeen''.
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June 30 |
Troops backed by jets and helicopter
gunships killed as many as 40 militants in Baizai region under
Mohmand Agency of FATA bordering Afghanistan. Brigadier Aftab
Ahmad said that his forces had destroyed 17 militant hideouts
in Baizai region under his command.
Three more security checkposts
have been set up in Loy Shelman and Sheen Pokh areas of Khyber
Agency along River Kabul's bank near the Pakistan-Afghan border.
Sheen Pokh is a remote area of Landikotal bordering Afghanistan
to the east and west and Mohmand Agency to the north, which is
around 40 kilometres from Landikotal Bazaar in the north.
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July 1 |
A person, identified as Shah Zeb
Khan, was killed during firing when unidentified militants abducted
a local leader of PPP-S, Malik Naseer Khan, along with his relative,
Shah Jehan, from Ahmadi Shama village in Kurram Agency of FATA.
TTP had been trying to lure back
senior 'commander', Fazal Saeed Haqqani, because he controls strategic
routes into Afghanistan and Pakistan and can block off terrorists'
escape paths, his supporters said. TTP chief Hakimullah Mehsud
has sought help from Haqqani for a truce with Saeed, who quit
the group to protest against what he called "brutal" attacks on
civilians, militant sources said.
|
July 2 |
Afghanistan Army fired 10 mortar
shells that landed 800 metres inside South Waziristan Agency in
FATA. "No loss of life or damage to property was, however, reported,"
said Security sources.
|
July 3 |
A military offensive has been
launched against militants in central tehsil (revenue unit) of
Kurram Agency as a result of which families started fleeing the
conflict zone. According to official estimates, over 4,000 families
are likely to flee their homes because of the military operation.
An unnamed senior official in Peshawar confirmed that a 'full-fledged
operation' had been launched in the valley.
An unnamed senior Government official
said that the militants, who abducted two Swiss tourists from
Killi Nigah area in Loralai District of Balochistan on July 1,
had taken them to a neighbouring South Waziristan. Officials in
the neighbouring South Waziristan tribal area have been asked
to keep an eye out for "suspicious elements," said Balochistan
Home Secretary Zafarullah Baloch.
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July 4 |
Four persons including three militants
and one paramilitary soldier were killed when dozens of Taliban
from Afghanistan launched a pre-dawn attack on a security post
in the Kitkot area of the Mamoond tehsil (revenue unit)
in Bajaur Agency of FATA. One paramilitary soldier and four militants
also sustain injuries.
Four children were injured when
a mortar shell fired from Afghanistan side landed in a house situated
in Birmal tehsil of North Waziristan Agency.
The driver and a guard of the
chairman of Haleemzai Peace Committee, Mohammad Ali Haleemzai,
were injured when his vehicle was targeted with a remote controlled
bomb in Sangar Ghaiba Khawar area of Mohmand Agency. However,
Mohammad Ali Haleemzai remained unhurt in the attack.
Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir
and Afghanistan Ambassador Mohammad Umer Daudzai condemned the
loss of life and destruction of property by militants on either
side and stressed on effective measures to curb their activities.
An "in-depth meeting" between Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir
and Afghan Ambassador Mohammad Umer Daudzai reviewed the situation
following the attacks in Dir, Bajaur, Mohmand and Kunar regions.
Both the sides expressed their concern over the activities of
the militants.
A jirga (tribal council) of all
mainstream political parties demanded that Government should hold
negotiations with the non-state actors instead of conducting military
operations in the FATA.
The resource-starved FATA Disaster
Management Authority (FDMA) sought assistance from UN agencies
for people displaced by the Army operation launched on July 3
against militants in Kurram Agency of FATA. An FDMA official said
that the authority had requested the World Health Organisation
and United Nations Children's Fund to provide emergency medical
kits and other facilities for displaced families, but so far it
had received no response. The Federal Government, the sources
said, was yet to send relief goods. The FDMA said on its website
that 6,000 to 8,000 families would be displaced by the operation.
The Provincial Government is providing some relief to people who
are arriving at a newly-established camp. "Currently, the FDMA
and political administration are coping with the situation well,
but resources will be exhausted soon," it said.
According to sources, SFs did
not face any resistance and cleared three areas, Manato, Domeki
and Gawaki, of militants. The operation is named Koh-i-Sofaid
(White Mountain) after the famous mountain range Spin Ghar.
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July 5 |
Six suspected militants were killed
and two others injured when a US drone fired missiles at a guesthouse
in Hormuz village of Mir Ali tehsil in NWA of FATA in the night.
Three Army soldiers were killed
and 14 others injured in a roadside bomb explosion near Miranshah,
the headquarters of NWA. Sources said an Army convoy was going
from Miranshah to Dattakhel when a vehicle hit an improvised explosive
device near a private hospital.
A pro-Government tribal elder
and member of Mamond Peace Committee, Malik Gul Rehman, was killed
in a remote controlled blast outside his house in Gat Agra area
of Mamond tehsil in Bajaur Agency.
A school and a telephone exchange
were destroyed in Akkakhel area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency.
In Landi Kotal town of Khyber
Agency, a bomb explosion caused damage to the outer wall of a
recently established check post at Charwazgai.
TTP Bajaur Agency chapter 'chief'
Maulana Faqir Mohammad claimed responsibility for the attack on
a security post in the Kitkot area of the Mamoond tehsil. Three
militants and one paramilitary soldier were killed in that attack.
Delivering a speech through his illegal FM radio at night, he
said that TTP had also attacked a check post in the Bajaur Agency
on June 16.
At least 28,000 people have fled
a tribal region where the military is conducting Operation Koh-e-Sofaid
to evict terrorists along the Afghan border. Thousands of families
escaped Kurram Agency in a mass exodus after the offensive was
launched on July 4, with the Army saying that artillery and fighter
jets had swung into action to drive out terrorists. About 4,000
families, with an average seven members each, had already left,
said Government official Sahibzada Anis.
Government has not accepted a
request by United Nations about sending its mission to Kurram
Agency to assess situation and begin humanitarian services in
the wake of military operation in the tribal region. Sources added
that the request by UN had not been accepted by the Government
owing to security reasons. The World Health Organisation had already
dispatched an emergency medical kit to FATA Health Directorate.
The kit is enough for treatment of 6,000 persons for one month.
"We have also requested WHO to send one more emergency medical
kit so that it can be supplied to New Durrani Camp in Kurram,"
officials at FATA Health Directorate said.
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July 6 |
40 militants have been killed
since Security Forces launched the Operation Koh-i-Sufaid in central
Kurram Agency in FATA. Brigadier Basharat said that several areas
had been cleared of militants and forces were consolidating their
positions. He identified some of the cleared areas as Manato,
Dombeki, Gwaki and Sungroba and said that forces continued to
advance.
According to reports, hundreds
of families displaced by the fighting have migrated to the adjacent
Hangu district. Officials said that over 4,000 families had been
displaced by the conflict. About 500 of such families enrolled
themselves at the New Durrani Camp in Lower Kurram.
SFs clashed with TTP militants
in Miranshah in North Waziristan Agency of FATA killing one militant
and injuring seven persons, including four troopers and three
civilians.
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July 7 |
At least four persons were killed
during clashes between LI and volunteers of Zakhakhel tribal lashkar
in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency in FATA.
Windscreens of several vehicles
were smashed when a powerful bomb, planted along roadside, exploded
near Ali Masjid area. However, nobody was injured in the blast.
SFs pounded the hideouts of militants
when they fired rockets at Jawaki area of FR Kohat to punish the
tribesmen for forming armed lashkar against them.
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July 8 |
Officials' sources said that 42
militants and eight soldiers were killed in the four days of air
and ground offensive during Operation Koh-e-Sofaid in Jawaki,
Mantao and Sarkat areas of central Kurram Agency in FATA.
One person was killed and another
injured when Security Forces opened fire on a motorcycle at Easha
checkpost, about 10 kilometres east of Miramshah in North Waziristan
Agency.
A NATO container truck was partially
damaged when a time device went off near Torkham border check
point in Khyber Agency.
TTP leadership in North Waziristan
Agency denied their hand in July 5 bomb attack on a SFs convoy
in Miranshah, adding that the US agents, not the TTP militants,
had attacked the military personnel to achieve their own objectives.
The TTP Shura met at an undisclosed location. A one-page statement
released after the meeting, which was presided over by Hafiz Gul
Bahadur, said: "Mujahideen Shura of the North Waziristan gives
last warning to those elements who carried out the improvised
explosive device attack and opened fire from main bazaar a few
days ago. If these people don't stop their activities then action
will be taken against them." Three security personnel were killed
and 14 others injured in the incident.
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July 9 |
At least seven militants were
killed when the SFs pounded their hideouts during the ongoing
Operation Koh-e-Sofaid in Kurram Agency of FATA. The SFs also
cleared 10 hideouts.
Three LI militant were killed
when a tribal lashkar attacked their positions in Tirah valley
of Khyber Agency. Local sources said LI lost two of its strategic
hilltops in Bhukar and Nari Baba areas when Zakhakhel tribal lashkar
launched fresh attacks on its positions.
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July 11 |
Two persons, identified as Fazal
Amin and Jahangir Khan, were killed by unidentified militants
in Shakas and Ghundi localities of Khyber Agency.
One Umar Khan was killed and two
others injured, when unidentified militants hurled a hand grenade
at his house in Bar Qambarkhel area of Bara tehsil.
Two other tribesmen identified
as Shaukat Khan and Maidan Khan received bullet injuries when
their car was ambushed by armed assailants in Speen Qabar locality
of Bara.
A NATO container was partially
damaged when a magnet bomb exploded on the main Peshawar-Torkham
Highway in Jamrud tehsil.
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July 12 |
31 militants were killed and 15
others injured when US drones fired multiple missiles in the border
area of Barmal in South Waziristan Agency of FATA.
At least 17 militants were killed
as a US drone strike fired four missiles targeting a compound
and a vehicle in the Gorwaik area of Datta Khel town in North
Waziristan Agency.
Four LI militants were killed
and four volunteers of the Zakhakhel tribal lashkar were injured
during the clashes between LI militants and the Zakhakhel tribesmen
in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency.
Two mortar shells fired from across
the border in Afghanistan slammed into Pakistani village of Gabri,
60 kilometres (40 miles) northwest of Khar, the main town of Bajaur
Agency, killing at least two women and injuring 12 other persons.
Two persons were abducted by the
militants from Bara Bazaar of Khyber Agency.
The Government authorities have
registered 85,000 persons who fled Army operation in Kurram Agency.
"We have registered until today at least 9,023 families - around
85,000 people," Senior Government Official Sahibzada Anis said.
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July 13 |
Unidentified terrorists destroyed
three more Government primary schools in Bara tehsil of
Khyber Agency in FATA.
Unidentified militants blew up
a bridge in Sheen Dand area of Bara.
More than 1,500 terrorists surrendered
to political administration during military operation in Mohmand
Agency, officials claimed. Official sources said that the arrested
terrorists were being dealt in accordance with Frontier Crimes
Regulation.
General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani paid
tributes to the officers and jawans, who laid down their lives
fighting militants in Mohmand Agency. General Kayani also met
Mishrans (notables) of Mohmand Agency and thanked them for their
wholehearted support to the military operations.
An ISPR statement said that during
the Mohmand operations, 69 officers and soldiers were killed and
231 were injured (including 41 critical injuries).
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July 14 |
Two SF personnel were killed and
three others injured in a bomb explosion in Zengara area of South
Waziristan Agency in FATA. The troops were patrolling the area
when their vehicle hit the bomb planted on the road.
Unidentified militants shot dead
a person, identified as Mohammad Ishaq, on charges of theft and
stealing in Shalobar area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency.
Unidentified militants targeted
the office of NATO fuel supplier with a car bomb near Torkham
border. Officials said that the explosion outside the office of
Al-Haj group caused injuries to three passers-by and partial damage
to four vehicles parked near the site of explosion.
United Nations agencies have started
relief activities for the internally displaced families in Kurram
Agency.
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July 15 |
Dozens of militants ransacked
at least 11 Government schools in Shalobar area of Bara tehsil
of Khyber Agency in FATA and took with them furniture, doors and
other articles. The collective looting of 11 schools happened
within 24 hours of the destruction of four government schools
in Akkakhel area of Bara.
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July 16 |
Unidentified militants ambushed
a bus carrying Sunni Muslims and killed all 10 passengers near
Parachinar town of Kurram Agency in FATA.
Unidenfied militants opened fire
on a NATO oil tanker in the Jamrud town of Khyber Agency, killing
the driver and injuring his helper.
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July 17 |
The LI militants killed a volunteer
of local peace committee by tying his body to a vehicle and dragging
it in Mann Talab area of Akkakhel in Khyber Agency of FATA.
Fazal Hadi, 'commander' and bodyguard
of LI 'chief' Mangal Bagh, was killed by the Zakhakhel lashkar
in Nari Baba area of Tirah valley in Khyber Agency.
Unidentified assailants attacked
a convoy of trucks, abducted 10 persons and set ablaze six vehicles
near Charkhel village on Thall-Parachinar Road in Kurram Agency.
Militants blew up a Government
high school in Atari village of Qambarkhel in Khyber Agency.
Security Forces destroyed three
hideouts of militants in Baz Garha area of Bara. Local sources
said that a number of suspected militants managed to break the
security cordon and escaped to other localities.
Pamphlets describing former 'vice-chief'
of TTP Maulvi Faqir Mohammad as agent of anti-Pakistan forces
were distributed among peace committees of Bajaur and Mohmand
Agencies. The pamphlets in Urdu and Pashto on separate papers
carry the title "public notice" and read: "Maulvi Faqir Mohammad
is a notorious and immoral bargainer of conscience by character.
He is enemy of humanity and playing in hands of those powers who
want to destroy our motherland. The number one in these anti-Pakistan
forces is RAW of India."
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July 18
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Eight militants and a trooper
were killed in an encounter in Dabori area of Orakzai Agency in
FATA.
Khasadar Sameed Khan and cook
Noor Badshah received injuries when unidentified assailants attacked
the living quarters of Khasadar Force with hand grenades in Landi
Kotal Bazaar of Khyber Agency.
Nine truckers, who were abducted
from Thall-Parachinar Road in Lower Kurram Agency on July 17,
were released by their abductors, officials said. A convoy of
trucks coming from Parachinar was attacked on the main road at
Charkhel village. The attackers set six trucks on fire and kidnapped
10 drivers. Two others were inured in the incident. Sources said
that the abductors set free nine drivers after interrogation while
one was still in their custody.
SFs neutralised a time device
planted at a roadside in Akkakhel area.
SFs arrested three suspect militants
during routine patrolling in Sur Ghar area of Bara tehsil.
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July 19
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11 militants and a soldier were
killed during an encounter between SFs and militants in Ormegai
area of Kurram Agency in FATA. One officer, three soldiers and
six militants were also injured during the encounter.
Five persons were killed and two
others injured in an explosion in Pir Khel village of Shakai area
near Wana, the main town of SWA. Sources said that a pick-up truck
carrying seven persons, including a son of TTP ‘commander’ Tehsil
Khan, was hit by an improvised explosive device in Pir Khel village.
Tehsil Khan is a close associate of TTP ‘commander’ Maulvi Nazir.
Four were killed and two others
were injured when the mortar bombs fired across the Afghanistan
border slammed in to a paramilitary Frontier Corps checkpost in
the Angoor Adda area of SWA.
Militants killed two hostages,
including a student, in Charkhel area of lower Kurram Agency.
They were abducted on July 17 after an attack on a convoy of trucks
coming from Parachinar to Thall. The militants burnt the body
of the student identified as Syed Ijlal Hussain while the other
hostage, Zakir Hussain, was shot dead. Militants had burnt six
trucks and abducted 12 persons including drivers during the attack.
They set free 10 drivers after interrogation and kept the two
deceased in their custody.
The activists of a local peace
committee killed the relative of a local militant ‘commander’
on charges of spying in Akkakhel area of Khyber Agency. Sources
said that Salim Khan was picked up by members of peace committee
when he was standing in front of his house. He was later shot
dead allegedly for passing information to local militants against
whom the peace committee had been raised, sources added.
Nine youngsters were injured when
militants fired six mortar shells at the local helipad in Landi
Kotal town of Khyber Agency. Sources said that scores of local
youth were playing cricket near the helipad when mortars were
fired from nearby hilltops. Local sources said that one of the
mortar shells hit the house of a cleric, Mufti Ijaz, near the
Army camp while another fell in a Government school.
A tribesman identified as Noor
Hussain suffered injuries in a landmine blast in Sharemkhel area
in Upper Kurram.
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July 20
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The pro-Government tribesmen killed
six militants during clashes in Neka Ziarat area of central Kurram
Agency. Four militants and six tribesmen were also injured in
the clashes. Clashes erupted between tribesmen and a group of
militants in Kurram where SFs launched an operation.
A caravan of 532 families belonging
to different areas of South Waziristan Agency left for their hometowns.
The 532 families returned to Laddah, Sararogha, Murgi Band, Kot
Kai, Spin Kai and Raghzai areas of the Agency.
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July 21
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Four militants were killed in
a US drone strike that fired two missiles in a house in Khushali
Toori Khel area of Mir Ali tehsil of North Waziristan Agency.
Four mortar shells fired from
across the border in Afghanistan hit a house in Banda-Gai village
in Mamoond tehsil, 60 kilometres northwest of Khar, main town
of Bajaur Agency in FATA, killing two persons and injuring six
children. Tariq Khan, a senior administrative official, blamed
TTP, saying the militants are hiding in eastern Afghanistan and
launching across the border attacks on Pakistani troops.
Two employees of Frontier Works
Organisation, Hazrat Ali and Hayat Ahmed, were injured in a suicide
attack in Kotki area of South Waziristan Agency. Hazrat Ali and
Hayat Ahmed were injured when a suicide bomber first hurled two
grenades at their vehicle, then ran towards it before blowing
himself up near it in Kotki area.
A NATO oil tanker was partially
destroyed as an explosive device attached to its rear portion
by unidentified militants, exploded near agriculture office in
Landikotal town of Khyber Agency.
Jandakhel peace lashkar and Security
Forces in a joint action demolished a hideout of the LI in Chora
area of Malik Dinkhel.
A Government middle school in
Akkakhel and a primary school for girls in Shalobar were completely
destroyed when huge quantity of explosives, planted by militants
in the buildings, exploded at midnight. Militants also destroyed
two bridges in Shalobar, causing suspension of traffic between
the area and other parts of Bara. With the destruction of the
two schools, the number of destroyed educational institutions,
according to official figures, has risen to 56 in Khyber Agency
since the start of military operation in September 2009.
Assistant Political Agent Rehan
Khattak distributed cheques worth PKR 11,200,000 among the victims
of terrorism in Bara. The recipients included relatives of 27
killed and 26 injured persons. Speaking on the occasion, the APA
said that Government realised that the amount was not enough to
compensate the losses the residents of Bara suffered owing to
militancy. The cheques were distributed to remove the sense of
deprivation among Bara people, he added.
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July 22
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Seven militants were killed and
as many volunteers of tribal lashkar injured in a clash between
militants and tribal lashkar in Neka Ziarat area of Kurram Agency
in FATA. The death toll reached 15 during the last five days,
as the military operation continued in different areas of central
Kurram for the last three weeks. The SFs had claimed that over
50 per cent areas were cleared of the militants and search operation
was going on in rest of the region. The officials said that so
far 65 militants had been killed and several hideouts, training
centres and tunnels were destroyed in the ongoing operation.
Six militants were killed while
two militants and a soldier sustained injuries during an encounter
in Sheraki area of Orakzai Agency. Sources said that the militants
attacked a SFs outpost in the area and in SFs retaliated by killing
six militants and injuring two others. One soldier identified
as Omar also sustained injuries. After the clash the SFs conducted
a search operation and recovered heavy weapons and ammunition,
the officials said.
Unidentified militants attacked
the compound of renowned Pashto poet Amir Hamza Shinwari in a
bid to destroy the complex located in Landikotal of Khyber Agency.
However, two Khasadar personnel, present on duty, retaliated to
foil the attack.
Two houses were partially damaged
when militants fired two mortars from mountains of Darra Adamkhel
at the residential area of Jammu in the Frontier Region of Kohat.
Sources said that the tribal lashkar of Jawaki engaged militants
near Paya tribal area where intense encounter took place. But
nobody was inured in the fighting and the militants escaped, the
sources added.
Senior Army and FATA officials
claimed that the reports about the death of Tariq Afridi, the
TTP ‘Amir’ of Darra Adamkhel, were correct and he had died when
Army jets pounded Eidgah area in Orakzai Agency on the evening
of May 31, 2011.
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July 23
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An anti-militant lashkar killed
13 militants during clashes in Parachinar of Kurram Agency in
FATA.
A trooper was injured when an
IED exploded in Chinari area of Safi tehsil in Mohammad Agency.
Sources said that SFs personnel were on routine patrolling when
the IED planted along a roadside went off.
SFs arrested six suspected militants
and neutralised two hideouts and recovered arms during an operation
in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency. Security officials said that
two hideouts of LI were neutralised and at least six suspected
militants were arrested during the daylong operation. Officials
said that the destroyed houses belonged to Said Wali and Awal
Khan, officials of Khasadar Force in Bara. The houses were occupied
by LI local ‘commanders’ Mashar Khan and Moeez Khan as the owners
had long ago vacated the same owing to insecurity and ongoing
military operation in Bara. SFs recovered two motorcycles and
16 boxes of improvised explosive devices, dozens of mortar shells
and cartridges from the two houses.
A big mortar shell landed in the
Hujra of Haji Abdul Shakoor Afridi in Sultankhel area of Khyber
Zakhakhel in Khyber Agency in the night, badly injuring his two
young sons, Adil Nawaz and Gul Nawaz.
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July 24
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Eleven militants were killed and
six others were injured during an encounter between militants
and SFs in the Ali Sherzai area of Kurram Agency in FATA. The
SFs also destroyed several militant hideouts.
At least nine militants were killed
and eight others sustained injuries in clashes between the LI
and AI in Sandapal area in Tirah valley in Khyber Agency. The
sources said that the cadres of AI attacked the positions of LI
in Sandapal area and captured the strategically important hilltop
of Sakhi Sangar from the rival outfit. Five volunteers of LI while
four from AI were killed in the fighting, the sources said.
A trooper was killed as SFs foiled
an attempt by a suicide bomber to attack a military checkpost
outside the Chag Malai post seven kilometres (four miles) east
of Wana, the main town in South Waziristan Agency. “The bomber
came on foot but failed to detonate his explosives-laden vest,”
local official Saifur Rehman said. “A guard shot him and he exploded.
One soldier was martyred due to splinters. There were no other
injuries.”
An Afghanistan national, identified
as Gul Khan, was killed by unidenfied militants on charges of
spying for the US in Qutab Khel of North Waziristan Agency. A
piece of paper found with the body said the man was killed because
he spied for the US.
Seven SF personnel were injured
when a bomb exploded on a road in Qutab Khel village.
Three soldiers were injured when
militants attacked the convoy of the SFs while it was patrolling
the Speen Qabar area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency. Local residents
said a woman was injured when a mortar shell hit her house in
Speen Qabar.
A Government primary school for
girls was blown up by the militants in Gudmalang area of Bara
tehsil in Khyber Agency. Official sources said that the militants
have destroyed 58 government-run schools in Khyber Agency over
the last two years.
Four rockets fired from Afghanistan
landed in Mamond area of Bajaur Agency. Residents said that the
rockets were fired from Kunar province of Afghanistan, but did
not cause any damage.
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July 25 |
At least 27 TTP militants and
four tribesmen of Peace lashkar were killed in gunfight
in Masozai area of Kurram Agency in FATA.
A 15-year-old shepherd, identified
as Muhibullah, was killed in a landmine explosion in Safi tehsil
of Mohmand Agency.
Three militants were injured in
exchange of fire with Levies Force in Prang Dara of Haleemzai
tehsil in Mohmand Agency. A child was also injured in the
clash.
Unidentified militants blew up
a Government school for girls and a primary school for boys in
Akkakhel area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency. Local sources said
that in most cases that took place in Bara, the saboteurs later
came in pick-up vehicles and took away remains of the destroyed
school buildings including furniture, doors, windows and even
bricks and steel bars used in the ceilings. "The items are then
sold away at throwaway prices in Bara and surrounding areas,"
said a Bara resident on the condition of anonymity. He said that
besides militants a number of local unemployed youth were involved
in destruction of schools.
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July 26 |
A trooper was killed and two others
were injured when a remote controlled bomb planted by suspected
militants along Wana-Angor Adda Road in Sholan area of South Waziristan
Agency in FATA went off. The security personnel were clearing
the road from mines for movement of convoys.
Eight mortar and rocket shells,
fired from Afghanistan side, landed in Angor Adda area. One of
the shells hit a bunker of Security Forces and injured a soldier
identified as Atif.
A public call office, owned by
Habib Karekhel, was blown up in Angor Adda at midnight. However,
no casualty was reported.
The Army has successfully completed
Operation Tri Star launched at Janata Valley in South Waziristan
Agency on July 13 with the objective of flushing out terrorists
from the area. According to an ISPR press release, the operation
has been successfully completed and Security Forces have gained
full control of Janata Valley, inflicting heavy casualties on
terrorists and capturing a large cache of arms and ammunition.
The recovery includes two 75mm recoil-free rifles, five 12.7 mm
guns, one 82 mm mortar, one missile-launcher with two missiles,
fourteen 127mm rockets and 50,000 rounds of various calibres.
Security forces also neutralised 16 explosive devises and destroyed
propaganda material. The terrorists in Janata Valley had occupied
the surrounding heights ranging from 4000 to 8000 feet and made
sanctuaries and training centres in the valley from which they
used to plan various terrorist activities, such as planting improvised
explosive devises, fire raids and ambushes.
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July 27 |
Two volunteers of a tribal lashkar
and a trooper were killed as the ongoing military operation Brekhna
in Mohmand Agency of FATA entered its third phase. SFs launched
operation in Manzari Chena, Athamkhel and Zorh Kallay areas of
Baizai tehsil along the Afghan border to start third phase of
the ongoing military operation Brekhna. Sources added that 12
SF personnel and five volunteers received injuries in a mine blast
and clashes with militants. The SFs also neutralised several bombs
planted by militants along the road in Shanikhel and Dobakhel
areas. Army launched Operation Brekhna on April 6.
A bomb explosion destroyed a NATO
supply oil tanker on Landikotal bypass in Khyber Agency. A powerful
explosive device attached to the tanker totally destroyed vehicle.
However, no casualty has been reported.
At least 100,000 persons have
fled their homes in Kurram Agency due to the ongoing Army operation
Koh-e-Sufaid. "We have so far registered at least 9,944 families
- up to 100,000 people," said Sahibzada Anis, the District coordination
officer for Peshawar. About 1,800 families were living in temporary
camps but many others had moved either to relatives' houses or
into rented premises. "These camps have been set up in schools
and colleges, which are closed for summer vacations," he added.
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July 28 |
Nine militants were killed and
six volunteers of a tribal lashkar were injured in a clash in
Masozai area of Kurram Agency in FATA.
A trailer carrying a US army vehicle
was set on fire by unidentified militants in a parking lot at
the Torkham border in Landikotal town of Khyber Agency.
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July 31 |
At least 12 militants were killed
in the ongoing Army operation Brekhna (lightning) in Mohammad
Agency of FATA. The Army has taken over the control of more than
90 per cent of areas bordering Afghanistan in Mohmand Agency as
the Army's operation entered a decisive phase, APA of Upper Mohmand
Maqsood Khan said on July 31. "We have taken control of Tora Bara,
Speen Bara and Qabarnama areas," said APA Mohmand Maqsood Khan
added. The operation was launched on April 6 in the semi-autonomous
Baizai tehsil with the help of local peace committees and militias,
especially the Atmarkhel lashkar.
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August 1 |
Four militants were killed when
a US drone fired two missiles on a vehicle in Azam Warsak, 15
kilometres west of Wana, the main town of the South Waziristan
Agency, in FATA.
Unidentified assailants killed
three persons in Munda area near the Afghan border in Kurram Agency.
Sources said that unidentified assailants attacked a tractor trolley
of Turi tribesmen in Munda area and killed three woodcutters.
The victims were identified as Jamil Hussain, Ahmad Hussain and
Basit Hussain. The driver of the tractor, Ibrar Hussain, received
serious bullet injuries. The tribesmen organised a lashkar and
chased the attackers. But the attackers managed to escape.
There has been no truce or ceasefire
between the Zakha Khel tribe and LI. The tribal elders Haji Meedak,
Ghulam Shah, Ziarat Syed and Fateh Muhammad said in a statement
that the Zakha Khel tribe had not inked any truce or ceasefire
with the LI in their region and vowed to purge the Zakha Khel
region of all terrorists to establish peace. They said that their
opponents were spreading false and baseless rumours that a truce
had been made between the two.
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August 2 |
A US drone strike targeting a
vehicle near Qutab Khel village, five kilometres east of Miranshah,
the main town in North Waziristan Agency of FATA killed four militants.
Two soldiers were killed and another
sustains injury when a group of TTP militants attack a roadside
military post near Ladha town in South Waziristan Agency.
Two soldiers were killed in a
roadside IED blast in Tengar area of Laddha. Officials said that
soldiers were patrolling Tengar area when an IED hit their vehicle.
Three persons were injured when
unidentified militants fired at NATO containers near Government
Degree College on Landi Kotal-Torkham Bypass in Landi Kotal town
of Khyber Agency.
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August 3 |
Six militants were killed and
12 others were injured in SFs action during the ongoing Koh-i-Sufaid
operation in different areas of central Kurram Agency in FATA.
According to sources, SFs using gunship helicopters destroyed
four militant hideouts and one of their vehicles.
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August 4 |
Five militants and a passer-by
were killed when the cadres of LI and AI clashed in a bazaar in
Mehraban Kali area of Kukikhel in Khyber Agency of FATA. The sources
said that five militants from both sides and a passer-by were
killed on the spot as result of cross firing.
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August 5 |
Unidentified militants blew up
a Government primary school in Aka Khel area of Bara tehsil in
Khyber Agency in the night. However, due to the timing of the
incident, no loss of life has been reported.
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August 6 |
One person was killed when a suicide
bomber detonated the explosives at Danish Kol bazaar in Pandyali
area in Mohmand Agency of FATA. SFs stopped the suspected person
at Pandyali area when he detonated the explosives on his body
and killed a passer by. His accomplices managed to flee from the
scene.
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August 7 |
The bullet-riddled bodies of two
tribesmen, identified as Umar Khan and Jamal Khan, were recovered
from Shalobar area in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency in FATA.
Three SFs personnel were injured
in a bomb attack at Satrapall area in Ladha tehsil in South Waziristan
Agency.
The personnel of FC in a crackdown
against outlaws destroyed the houses of three wanted terrorists
and arrested 23 suspects under the FCR in the Malikhel area of
Kurram Agency. According to the political administration, the
crackdown was launched on a tip-off about the presence of terrorists
in the area.
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August 8 |
Six militants were killed and
four others injured when SFs targeted their hideouts in upper
tehsil of Orakzai Agency in FATA. Officials said that several
hideouts were destroyed in the operation. One vehicle was also
destroyed in the shelling.
10 soldiers were injured when
a remote controlled bomb was detonated as a military vehicle passed
through the Sararogha village area in South Waziristan Agency.
One soldier suffered injuries
in a landmine explosion in Meshti Mela area of Orakzai Agency.
Officials said that soldiers were heading towards Dabori area
when one of them stepped on a landmine.
An official Javed Ullah said that
SFs have killed more than 200 militants over the past month in
Kurram Agency during the operation Koh-e-Sufaid.
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August 9 |
Five TTP militants were killed
and two others received injuries in a roadside explosion in Mamozai
area of Orakzai Agency. According to sources a vehicle, carrying
TTP militants from Arghunjo village to Jabba in Mamozai, a stronghold
of militants, was hit by a landmine planted by unidentified militants
in Adokhel area. The killed militants were identified as 'commander'
Bakhtullah, 'commander' Mirdad Khan, Kazim Khan, Ghulam Sarwar
and Hafiz Mirwais. The injured were identified as Isa Khan and
Noor Din.
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August 10 |
A US drone strike killed at least
25 suspected Haqqani Network militants near Miranshah in North
Waziristan Agency of FATA. Initial reports said five militants
were killed in the attack but officials said the toll had gone
up to 25 after more bodies were found from the rubble of the house.
Nine persons, including five militants,
were killed in clashes between local tribesmen and militants in
the Shawal area of South Waziristan Agency. Pro-government tribesmen
reportedly attacked a militant hideout in the Shawal area and
managed to kill five militants. Four tribesmen were also killed
in the encounter.
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August 11 |
Five persons, including three
women and two children, were killed and one minor was injured
as a result of a landmine explosion in the house of peace lashkar
Commander Shah Jee, in Zaka Khel village in Tirah Valley of Khyber
Agency in FATA.
Unidentified assailants killed
two tribesmen in Chapperi village of Kurram Agency and managed
to escape. Names of the killed tribesmen could not be ascertained.
Security Forces demolished houses
of two militants, Ayub and Kamal Khan. Both the militants are
wanted in abduction for ransom and other criminal cases.
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August 12 |
Pakistan amended the 1901-vintage
Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) and extending the Political
Parties Ordinance (PPO) 2002 to the FATA. The two orders were
signed by President Asif Ali Zardari with the promise that this
would help mainstream the tribals living east of the Durand Line
that separates Afghanistan from Pakistan. While amendments to
FCR aim at abolishing some of the draconian provisions, political
activity has been allowed into the tribal belt with the extension
of the PPO to FATA. Billed as "far reaching administrative, judicial
and political reforms" in the tribal areas, these were announced
on the eve of the 2009 Independence Day celebrations.
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August 13 |
Six militants were killed and
five others injured during a search operation conducted by SFs
in Sholaam area of Sarokai tehsil in South Waziristan Agency (SWA)
of FATA.
Twelve mortar shells were fired
from Afghanistan into Birmal tehsil of SWA.
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August 14 |
Three paramilitary soldiers were
killed and 25 others injured in a rocket attack on their camp
in Miramshah, the main town of North Waziristan Agency. Four rockets
hit the camp in Miramshah, where troops were preparing for Independence
Day assembly.
A soldier was killed when a landmine
planted by terrorists exploded while six terrorists were killed
in a retaliatory attack in Orakzai Agency of FATA.
Over a dozen rockets fired from
across the border in Afghanistan hit a populated area in Mamond
town of Bajaur Agency, injuring five persons. Two children were
among the injured. Sources said the attackers belonged to Kunar
province of Afghanistan.
An Afghanistan-bound NATO oil
container was gutted when it caught fire due to an explosion at
Pak-Afghan border at Torkham cross point in Khyber Agency.
Unidentified militants destroyed
two more bridges and an office of agriculture department in Akkakhel
area of Bara tehsil. The destruction of bridges has badly affected
smooth flow of traffic in Akkakhel as militants have so far destroyed
at least 15 link bridges in the area.
Unidentified militants abducted
a car dealer, Haji Noshad, from his residence near Tedi Bazaar
in Jamrud.
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August 15 |
Five oil-tankers, a container
and a car were burnt when a time-bomb fixed to an oil-tanker carrying
fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan exploded at the Taru Jaba
oil terminal of Landikotal Bypass in Khyber Agency.
Baizai peace committee chief Malik
Sultan Kodakhel and three volunteers suffered injuries when militants
ambushed their car in the night near Lakhkar Kalli in Baizai tehsil
of Mohmand Agency. The three volunteers were identified as Shahwali,
Ibrahim and Salim.
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August 16 |
At least 12 militants were killed
in two bomb blasts in the remote Tirah valley of Khyber Agency
in FATA. Official sources in Jamrud area said that the blasts
in Tharkho Kas and Tora Dara hit two vehicles carrying militants
belonging to Tariq group of Darra Adamkhel affiliated to TTP.
Four militants, suspected to be
of Haqqani Network, were killed when a drone strike fired two
missiles, hitting a compound and a vehicle parked outside it in
Miramshah, the main town of North Waziristan Agency in FATA.
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August 17 |
At least 10 militants were killed
as two IEDs exploded in Tarkhokas area of Bara tehsil of the Khyber
Agency in FATA.
A senior member of the peace committee,
Malik Afsar Khan, was shot dead along with his son by unidentified
militants in Chamarkand tehsil of Bajaur Agency. Malik Afsar Khan
was an influential tribal chief who had announced support for
government in war against terrorism.
The miners, who had been abducted
from Akhorwal area of Darra Adamkhel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, were
released by their abductors after 67 days. The release was made
possible through a deal reached between the local 'commander'
of TTP and mine owners.
The IDPs from Kurram Agency were
directed to start packing as the return journey to their homes
will start from August 25, as SFs have cleared their militancy-hit
villages of militants. FATA Disaster Management Authority Director
General Arshad Khan said that IDPs repatriation programme to central
Kurram would start from August 25 as SFs have declared seven villages
free of militants.
The fate of over 21,000 displaced
families, who had migrated to safer places from their hometowns
owing to sectarian clashes in upper and lower Kurram, is still
uncertain. The Government is yet to take any concrete measures
regarding their repatriation. They were still living miserable
life in rented houses or staying with their relatives.
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August 18 |
The bullet-riddled body of a TTP
'commander', Ali Akbar alias Skarwata, was found in fields in
Akkakhel area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency of FATA.
Two children were killed and eight
persons received injuries when a stray mortar shell hit a house.
The injured included children and women. Security Forces demolished
a hideout of LI in the same locality.
TTP beheaded a LI supporter, belonging
to Qambarkhel tribe, in Tirah valley. Sources said that TTP put
on fire at least five houses of their opponents in Kukikhel dominated
areas of Mehraban Kallay and Zarmanza. There were also reports
about fierce gun-battle between TTP and LI in Mehraban Kallay,
Malikdin Khel and Qambarkhel areas of Tirah. However, no casualties
were reported from these areas.
A bomb blast by a time device
partially damaged a NATO container and also caused minor injuries
to the cleaner of the vehicle in Jamrud.
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August 19 |
At least 56 persons were killed
and 123 injured in a suicide attack during the Friday prayer at
Jamia Masjid Madina in Ghundai area of Jamrud area of Khyber Agency
in FATA.
Four militants were killed when
a US drone fired two missiles hitting a house in the Shin Warsak
area of South Waziristan Agency.
Three SF personnel were killed
and three others, including a tribesman, injured when their vehicle
ran over a landmine in a border area in Kurram Agency.
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August 20 |
At least two Pakistani soldiers
and five terrorists died in a shootout in Akakhel village in the
Khyber Agency of FATA. The shootout started when paramilitary
troops were carrying out a search operation, a day after the suicide
bombing in the area.
TTP claimed responsibility of
Jamrud suicide attack. At least 56 persons were killed and 123
injured in the suicide attack during the Friday prayer at Jamia
Masjid Madina in Ghundai area of Jamrud area of Khyber Agency
on August 19. More action will be taken against the members of
Koki Khel tribe if they continue to resist to the TTP in Tirah
Valley, a senior journalist quoted TTP's Tariq group spokesman,
Talha, as saying.
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August 21 |
Three SF personnel and five militants
were killed during clashes after militants attack on two checkpoints
Laddah and Pash Ziarat area of South Waziristan Agency in FATA.
Six LI militants were killed in
renewed clashes with rival outfits TTP in Dwa Thoe and Mehraban
Kali areas of Tirah valley in Khyber Agency. Sources said the
Tariq Afridi group of TTP clashed with supporters of LI in Dwa
Thoe and Mehraban Kali areas.
Two tribesmen and a militant were
killed in a clash after an improvised explosive device ripped
through a military vehicle in Chashma area near Miramshah in North
Waziristan Agency.
A Government primary school was
blown up in the Akakhel area of Bara tehsil (revenue unit) in
Khyber Agency.
A Government primary school was
blown up in Toorkhel area of Baizai tehsil in Mohmand Agency on
August 20. So far, at least 80 schools have been blown up by militants
in Mohmand Agency, depriving around 25,000 students of education.
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August 22 |
Three militants and four tribesmen
from a same family were killed and three others injured when a
US drone targeted a house and a vehicle in Mirkhunkhel area near
Mir Ali in North Waziristan Agency of FATA.
Two tribesmen were killed when
their house was hit by a stray mortar shell in Akakhel area of
Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency.
In the same area, two bullet-riddled
dead bodies of Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) militants were found in a
deserted place.
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August 23 |
10 LI militants were killed when
landmines planted in a bunker by militants of Tariq Afridi group
of TTP exploded in the Tirah valley of Khyber Agency in FATA.
The sources said the TTP militants planted the landmines before
vacating one of their bunkers at Zeeg hilltop overlooking Mehraban
Kali in the Tirah valley. LI militants had been laying siege to
the bunker for one week, cutting all supplies to more than a dozen
TTP holed up at the hilltop. The sources said the LI militants
entered the bunker after receiving information that the TTP had
fled the area. 10 LI militants were killed on the spot.
Suspected militants killed an
Afghan refugee in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan Agency on
suspicion of being a spy for the United States. An ATM card from
an Afghan bank and a hand-written note, stating that he was caught
spying for the United States, were found beside the body.
Kukikhel elders recovered four
miners who were abducted by TTP militants on June 11 from Darra
Adamkhel. A local elder said that coalminers Fazal, son of Mohammad
Hanif Rahimullah, son of Abdul Hamid Bakhtzada, son of Mohammad
Zahir and Qaimooz Khan, son of Abdul Alam all residents of Shangla
District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, were recovered when the TTP vacated
their bases in the Kukikhel area a few days ago. Earlier on August
17, the TTP had released 12 miners after receiving a huge ransom
when the Darra Adamkhel administration brokered a deal between
the kidnappers and coalmine owners.
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August 24 |
Militants attacked several check
posts in Karir, Dwajangi, Qayumabad and Hashim Kor areas of Safi
tehsil in Mohmand Agency of FATA. Security Forces retaliated and
targeted suspected positions in the area along the border. No
report of casualty was received from the area.
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August 25 |
11 militants were killed and four
others sustained injuries after the SFs shelled their hideouts
in Barlas and Akhun Kot in Mamozai area of Orakzai Agency in FATA.
However, the TTP Orakzai Agency chapter 'spokesman' Hafiz Saeed
rejected the SFs' claim and argued that it was aimed at misguiding
the public.
Two LI militants were killed in
clashes with the TTP in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency. The sources
said that the groups were firing mortar shells on the positions
of each other in Mehraban Killay and Dwatoy when a shell fell
on the bunker of the LI, leaving two of its militants dead. The
two militant groups have been fighting against each other in Kukikhel
area in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency for the last two weeks in
which more than two dozens from both sides have been killed.
FC personnel raided the house
of Sher Amin Afridi and Sher Afzal Afridi in Jamrud tehsil and
arrested them. The sources said that the duo was affiliated with
the Tariq Afridi group of the TTP.
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August 28 |
A low-intensity bomb, planted
in a hotel at Torkham in Khyber Agency of FATA, went off causing
partial damage to the hotel building. However, no loss of life
was reported in the blast as the hotel was empty at the time due
to the holy month of Ramazan.
A bomb that had been planted along
the gate of the Khyber Agency headquarters' Hospital at Landikotal
in FATA went off causing damage to some medicine stores in the
night. However, no casualties were reported in the blast.
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August 29 |
Three alleged would-be suicide
bombers were arrested by SFs during a search operation in Malangai
area of Mamond tehsil in Bajaur Agency. Suicide jackets
and other material were recovered during the raid.
SFs neutralised a bomb placed
near the parking lot of a Bazaar Zakha Khel in Landikotal.
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September 1 |
Seven passengers were killed in
lower Kurram Agency of FATA when unidentified assailants opened
fire on their vehicle. According to sources, the passenger vehicle
was travelling from the Alizai area to Parachinar when the assailants
opened fire, killing four people on the spot and severely wounding
four others. Six out of the seven persons who lost their lives
in the incident belonged to the same family.
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September 2 |
Suspected TTP militants in Afghanistan
abducted as many as 40 Pakistani boys after they inadvertently
strayed across the border. The boys, from the town of Mamoond
in Bajaur Agency of FATA, were trekking when they ended up in
Afghanistan on August 31. "Now, they are being held by militants
across the border," Pakistan government official Muhammad Haseeb
Khan said. Two local intelligence officials said that the abductors
were apparently from Maulvi Faqir Muhammad group of TTP, who is
active in Bajaur but is believed to have fled to Afghanistan in
2010. Security officials said about 20 boys below ten years old
in the group were allowed to return to Pakistan, but boys between
12 to 14 years old were held. About 60 children took part in the
outing. Tribal elders and clerics were trying to negotiate with
the militants to secure their release, officials said.
Corps Commander Lieutenant General
Asif Yasin Malik said that large chunk of the Mohmand Agency in
FATA has been cleared of terrorists after the successful military
operation 'Brekhna' there and writ of the Government has finally
been restored in the region. Briefing journalists at Mamodgut
in Mohmand Agency, Malik said that Army had reclaimed 80 to 85
percent area of Mohmand Agency following successful military operation
'Brekhna' in which 72 soldiers, including three officers, embraced
martyrdom and around 150 were injured. He said that IDPs belonging
to Mohmand Agency had returned to their areas and were living
safely.
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September 3 |
Political authorities arrested
22 tribesmen in connection with attacks on passenger buses in
Kurram Agency of FATA. At least seven passengers were killed in
an ambush on a passenger bus in Kurram Agency in the night of
September 1.
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September 4 |
Two militants were killed when
a bomb exploded prematurely in Kalosha area of SWA in FATA in
the night. Sources said that two militants were planting an explosive
device on the road leading to the house of TTP 'commander' Sharif
Wazir in Kalosha area when it went off, killing them on the spot.
Sharif Wazir was a confidant of TTP 'commanders' Mullah Nazir
and Nek Mohammad. He had played a prominent role in eviction of
Uzbek militants from South Waziristan Agency in 2008. Sources
said that militants were planting the bomb to target Sharif Wazir.
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September 5 |
The dead bodies of two brothers,
who had gone missing mysteriously, were found in Humrang Beebak
area of SWA in FATA. Sources said that the two brothers had fallen
victim to terrorism.
A girl was injured when suspected
militants fired rockets and missiles at border areas of Mamond
tehsil in Bajaur Agency. Sources said that militants targeted
Manro Jangle and Speray localities with rockets and missiles.
Six rockets and five missiles were fired by the militants. SFs
and tribal lashkar retaliated and forced the militants to flee.
Explosives damaged a house in
the border area of Angoor Adda in SWA. Locals said that the explosive
went off inside the house of Nazar Jan, a member of Ahmedzai Wazir
tribe. The house was partially damaged in the explosion. No loss
of life was reported.
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September 8 |
Two militants were injured when
SFs opened fire on a suspected vehicle in Bagun area of Kurram
Agency in FATA. Sources said that SFs were providing escort to
300 passengers going from Parachinar in Khurram to Peshawar in
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa when armed persons travelling in a suspected
car approached the convoy from the opposite direction. When it
reached Bagun area, the soldiers opened fire on the vehicle. Two
militants were injured in the firing. The suspected persons along
with their wounded accomplices abandoned the vehicle and ran away,
sources added. Sources said that the attackers belonged to the
Mullah Toofan faction of TTP led by 'commander' Mohammad Ayub.
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September 9 |
Fierce clashes between two factions
of the TTP rattled the Talo Kanj, Badsha Kot and Shabak areas
of Kurram Agency in FATA. The fighting involved militants loyal
to TTP chief Hakeemullah and TTP Kurram chapter Chief Fazal Seed.
The latter had parted ways with the TTP and formed his own group,
TTIP, on June 27. The rift between the two groups reached peak
after Hakeemullah's men set up checkposts in Talo Kanj, Badsha
Kot and Shabak areas. They then started collecting "taxes". The
Fazal Saeed group resisted the move and his supporters attacked
the checkposts and tents of Hakeemullah's men. Both sides used
heavy weapons as fighting continued till late into the night.
The report about causalities is yet to come.
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September 10 |
Three soldiers were injured in
a roadside bomb blast in Chegmalai area of South Waziristan Agency
in FATA.
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September 11 |
At least four militants were killed
when a US drone fired two missiles, hitting a vehicle and a house
in the Hisokhel village of North Waziristan Agency FATA. A nearby
house was also damaged in the missile strike. The identities of
the militants killed in the attack were not immediately clear,
he said.
A child was killed and three others
sustained injuries when three mortar shells landed in a residential
area of Kandokhel, sub section of Khugakhel in Landikotal tehsil
of Khyber Agency. Sources said that three mortar shells were fired
from an undisclosed destination by unidentified militants struck
the ground near the house of a tribesman, Rehman Ali, where the
boys were playing cricket. Hayat Ali (13) was killed on the spot
while three others identified as Rehmat Ali (18), Ishraq (12)
and Ziaur Rahman (14) received splinter injuries.
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September 13 |
Two tribal elders and a prayer
leader were killed in Akkakhel area of Khyber Agency in FATA.
Sources said that militants abducted two tribal elders and a prayer
leader on September 11 from near their houses in Akkakhel area.
The tribal elders were identified as Haji Mohammad and Mohammad
Amin.
Two suspected militants were killed
when a mortar shell exploded accidentally in a bunker in Zambakhel
Bazaar area.
A pro-government tribal elder
was killed and his three relatives were injured when militants
attacked his house in Mamond area of Bajaur Agency. According
to officials and local residents, militants attacked the house
of Mlaka Gul Noor in Landi Shah area of Damadola with heavy weapons.
Malak Gul Noor had supported Government against militants in the
region. He also played leading role in formation of peace committee
and flushing out militants from the region.
A soldier was killed and two others
were injured in a bomb blast in Laddha area of In South Waziristan
Agency.
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September 14 |
Militants shot dead three ISI
officials in the Janikhel area of Frontier Region Bannu in the
FATA. Another officer sustained injuries. Officials said that
the ISI personnel were going to the tribal area when two militant
riding a motorbike intercepted their pick-up truck near Sardikhel
and opened fire. The attackers managed to escape after the attack.
Militants beheaded a local tribesman
in the Tirah valley of Khyber Agency on charges of spying. Sources
said that militants abducted Rahim Shah, a resident of Dray-Plar
area of Bara Qambarkhel, and later left his beheaded body in the
nearby mountains. A letter left with the body alleged that the
deceased was involved in spying on militants and desecration of
worship places.
The Manzarkhel branch of Akkakhel
tribe has extended its full support to the local peace committee
in its campaign against militants. The decision was made at a
jirga of tribal elders where scores of local armed volunteers
joined the peace committee and also established a number of checkpoints
to monitor the movements of militants. The jirga also constituted
13 groups, each comprising 10 armed volunteers, to patrol the
Akkakhel-Matani Road. The groups were directed to operate under
the command of Haji Gul Miran, the head of Akkakhel Peace Committee.
The political administration distributed
cheques of PKR 300,000 each to the heirs of slain local tribal
members who lost their lives in a suicide attack at the Torkham
border on August 27, 2009, where more than twenty Khasadar personnel
were killed, and in a NATO oil tanker blast in Khuga Khel in Landikotal,
when 15 were killed. A total of 32 families were compensated out
of 36. The compensation ceremony was held at Tehsil office in
Landikotal. The Landikotal Assistant Political Agent Iqbal Khattak
distributed the cheques among the heirs.
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September 15 |
SFs killed four militants after
militants attacked their convoy with a remote-controlled explosive
device that left two soldiers dead in Gandao area of Bara tehsil
in Khyber Agency of FATA. The incident occurred in Gandao area
when an improvised explosive device planted on a roadside went
off when a SFs convoy was passing by. Two security personnel were
killed and one was injured in the explosion. Later, the SFs cordoned
off the area and started indiscriminate firing. The officials
said that at least four militants were killed and six others injured
in the retaliatory fire by the SFs.
An unidentified militant was killed
when explosive material he was trying to plant inside a school
in Speen Qabar area of Bara exploded. However, other militants
later destroyed the school. An adjoining private health clinic
was also damaged due to the explosion.
At least three houses were partially
damaged when mortar shells fired by the SFs at the suspected militant
positions hit the houses of Azmat Shah and Maulana Abdul Qayyum
in Gandao area.
The SFs neutralised an explosive
device planted on a roadside near Charwazgai security checkpost
in Landi Kotal.
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September 16 |
Seven militants were killed and
two others injured during a clash between two militant groups,
separately led by Quwat Khan and Mullah Toofan, in Gawaki area
of Kurram Agency in FATA.
SFs conducted an operation in
Chora village of Jamrud of Khyber Agency and destroyed a militant
hideout in the area. SFs also recovered an ammunition depot and
triggered an explosion to destroy it. However, one soldier was
killed and two others were injured in the explosion.
A 12-year-old girl was injured
when a mortar shell fired by SFs from Fort Salop fell on a house
in Bara tehsil.
Three women were injured when
a mortar shell fell on another house in Sipah area.
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September 17 |
Five FC personnel were injured
when an IED planted on Charbagh road on the west of Landikotal
Bazaar in Khyber Agency of FATA was detonated.
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September 18 |
At least 15 persons were killed
when TTP militants attacked a checkpost manned by pro-Government
tribesman and SFs in Akakhel area of Bara tehsil in Khyber
Agency of FATA.
Three persons were killed when
unidentified assailants opened fire on a passenger bus in the
Haider Khan area of Kurram Agency. Moreover, it was reported that
all three of them were members of the Toori tribe belonging to
Shia sect.
Soldiers battled TTP militants
in an attempt to seize precious debris from a suspected US drone
that crashed at Jangara village in the South Waziristan Agency
near the Afghanistan border. TTP claimed that they shot down the
unmanned aircraft, which crashed in the night of September 17
near Jangara village. However, a security official in Peshawar
said that the American drone crashed in Zangara village, apparently
because of some technical faults.
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September 19 |
A driver was killed and his cleaner
received injuries when militants attacked NATO containers on Torkham
bypass road near Degree College in Khyber Agency of FATA. Officials
said that militants riding in a non-registered car opened indiscriminate
firing on NATO containers parked on Torkham bypass road. The attackers
managed to escape in the darkness.
Unidentified militants shot dead
a tribal elder of pro-government peace committee, Malik Aziz Khan,
at Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency. Malik Aziz Khan was on his
way to mosque for prayer.
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September 20 |
SFs killed 29 militants during
a search operation in Dabori area of Orakzai Agency in FATA. The
operation was carried out after an attack on a checkpost in Arhang
village of Dabori by militants in which one Policeman, identified
as Hidayatullah Jan, was killed and nine SFs were injured. Officials
said the militants had launched a two-pronged attack on the post
early in the morning. After the attack, SFs launched the operation
and destroyed several militant hideouts and advanced to Gall and
Gandi Tall areas. During the operation, SFs killed 29 militants
and injured 72 others. They also claimed capturing over a dozen
militants.
16 militants, including Afghan
and TTP Punjab chapter, were arrested during a search operation
in Wacha Khur area of South Waziristan Agency. Sources said that
the search operation, supervised by Colonel Yasin and Political
Agenct Javed Marwat, started at 5am and continued till 10:30am.
They said that ground forces backed by two helicopter gunships
and tanks took part in the operation.
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September 21 |
The beheaded bodies of three tribesmen,
abducted by militants a month ago, were found in Sam Ghakay area
of Khwezai tehsil in Mohmand Agency of FATA. Sources said that
Mian Hazrat, Nazeem, and Habib had been abducted by militants
about a month ago from Palosai area of Khwezai tehsil.
25 militants, including three
'commanders', laid down arms and surrendered to Security Forces
during a tribal jirga in Salarzai tehsil Bajaur Agency.
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September 22 |
A powerful roadside bomb targeting
an anti-TTP militia ripped through a pick-up vehicle in Chamarkand
village of Bajaur Agency in FATA, killing at least five persons
and inuring another eight. Three of those who died are members
of an anti-TTP militia and one is a 10-year-old boy. The fifth
one is the driver.
Two persons, including an official
of the Khasadar Force, were killed and another was injured in
an armed attack on NATO tankers, carrying fuel for NATO and ISAF
forces in Afghanistan, at Sheikhwal area of Landikotal in Khyber
Agency.
Unidentified militants ambushed
and injured a senior tribal journalist and former Khyber Agency
Tribal Union of Journalists president Khalil Khan Afridi in Landikotal
town. The journalist was returning home from a nearby Hujra (guest
house) at 9pm when he was targeted with a hand grenade.
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September 23 |
Two missiles fired by a US drone
killed six persons in Khushali Turikhel village in Mir Ali tehsil,
about 40 kilometres from Miramshah, headquarter of NWA in FATA.
Three others were injured. The identities of the persons killed
in the strike could not be ascertained.
Four LI militants were killed
in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency after a time device fitted in
their vehicle went off.
NWA Political Moharrar (in-charge),
Muhammad Alam who was abducted from Miranshah Bazaar on September
19, was killed and his body was found from Anzar Kalay area.
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September 24 |
SFs killed 14 militants and neutralised
two of their hideouts during operations in Orakzai and Khyber
Agencies in FATA. According to sources, SFs bombed the suspected
hideouts of militants in Dabori, Alikhel, Mamozai and Mullakhel
areas of Orakzai agency with jet planes. During the operation
at least 10 militants were killed while two hideouts were also
neutralised.
In Tirah valley of Khyber Agency,
SFs pounded suspected hideouts of terrorists with heavy artillery
fire, killing at least four militants. The areas targeted by the
SFs were considered to be strongholds of terrorists.
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September 25 |
At least two militants were killed
when SFs repulsed an attack on an Army convoy at Malikdin area
of Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency in. Three vehicles of the SFs
were also damaged, but no loss of life was reported.
A boy was killed when a stray
mortar shell hit the house of Khawas Khan in Malak Dinkhel area
of Bara. The shell hit the house of Khawas Khan killing his grandson
on the spot.
Two persons suffered minor injuries
as a time device fitted with a NATO container exploded in Torkham
border checking point.
The Chief of LI, Mangal Bagh,
said that officials working to register voters and conduct a census
in Khyber Agency will be 'sentenced to death' unless they immediately
halt their activities. "We will continue opposing Government policies
unless the Government or its advisers begin talks with us," Bagh
said, in an address broadcast on his private FM radio channel
in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency in FATA. Bagh said that elected
representatives and elders of the area are ignoring the pressing
issue of law and order in Khyber Agency and taking more interest
in voter registration and census. "Hundreds of people have died
in Khyber Agency but no government agency or public representative
has bothered to list their names or establish a team for the purpose,"
he said. Speaking against the Benazir Income Support Programme
(BISP), Bagh said that his organisation will not let the programme
succeed in the area and threatened with dire consequences if anybody
tried to participate.
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September 26
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A woman was killed when a stray
mortar shell fell on a house in Star Kaley village of Shalobar
area in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency.
A large number of security personnel
have been deployed at the mountain tops in Mamond tehsil
of Bajaur Agency after continued cross-border shelling from Afghanistan
into different areas of Bajaur Agency.
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September 27
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A US drone missile strike killed
at least three militants in Wana of South Waziristan Agency.
One Afghan militant, identified
as Noorullah Nooristani, was killed by Amaan Lashkar at Mandal
areas of Bajaur Agency while three others escaped towards Afghanistan.
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September 28
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The abducted gunman of the MNA,
Mohammad Raja, in FATA, Munir Orakzai, was found dead in Kurram
Agency.
A trooper was injured when a convoy
was attacked with a remote controlled bomb in Bara tehsil
of Khyber Agency.
A local TTP militant 'commander'
Tehsil Khan and his associates narrowly escaped a roadside
blast in the Shakai area of South Waziristan Agency.
NATO and Afghan army reportedly
targeted bunkers of Security Forces with heavy weapons near Angoor
Adda from Macha Dad Kor area of South Waziristan Agency.
In Zawa area of Akkakhel in Khyber
Agency, local tribal lashkar set ablaze the houses of six suspects,
including a local 'commander' of LI.
In Landi Kotal, Khasadars defused
an explosive device planted along the main Landi Kotal-Torkham
Road.
In Jamrud, troopers seized 15
kilograms heroin from an Afghan national at Bhagiyarhi check post.
A cleaner received bullet injuries
when about 12 unidentified militants fired in all directions to
scare away khasadars and personnel of Khyber Rifles after
they set ablaze a NATO container at Torkham border in Khyber Agency
in FATA.
Owners demolished their shops
and restaurants in Torkham after expiry of the deadline set for
them by political administration.
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September 29
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Beheaded body of a young man was
found at a deserted place in Chora locality of Jamrud tehsil of
Khyber Agency.
In Sheikhan Kallay of Bara tehsil,
unidentified persons blew up a tube well.
Khasadars Force defused a bomb
planted in a NATO tanker in Ali Masjid area.
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September 30
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A US drone strike killed three
TTP militants at Baghar village of South Waziristan Agency in
FATA.
Suspected militants abducted at
least 34 coal miners from Kalakhel area of Bara tehsil
in Khyber Agency of FATA. Both Kalakhel and Adamkhel are strongholds
of the TTP affiliated to the Tariq Afridi group. However, no group
has claimed responsibility for the abduction.
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October 1
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SFs arrested 50 suspected militants
during a search operation in Mandal area of Salarzai tehsil
in Bajaur Agency.
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October 2
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In Khyber Agency, two NATO containers
were partially damaged when suspected militants targeted them
at two different locations on the main Peshawar-Torkham Highway.
At least three stray mortar shells
fell on a steal factory in Akkakhel area of Bara tehsil.
In Jamrud tehsil, Khasadar
Force seized huge quantity of explosive material at the Takhta
Beg check post from a vehicle, coming from Shahkas area.
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October 3
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Eight militants were killed and
three injured in a clash with SFs in Dabori area of upper Orakzai
Agency in FATA.
Eight aid workers belonging to
a US NGO, who were abducted while returning from an Afghan refugee
camp on July 18, 2011 from Surkhab area of Pishin District in
Balochistan were released by the TTP in Wana town of South Waziristan
Agency.
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October 4
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One soldier, identified as Azizullah,
was killed when a missile hit a security check post in Mazak area
of Tiarza tehsil in South Waziristan Agency.
A group of masked militants set
ablaze Pakistan Hotel near Gomal Zam Project site near Kajori
area in North Waziristan Agency.
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October 5
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In Khyber Agency, unidentified
militants targeted two NATO containers with remote controlled
bombs, planted at roadside in Jamrud tehsil.
Two suspected militants were killed
in a clash with volunteers of a Local Peace Committee in Akkakhel
area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency.
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October 6
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Four militants, including a commander,
were killed in two different incidents in Khyber Agency. SFs claimed
that LI commander Wahid Afridi and his bodyguard Abid were killed
while two other militants were injured.
In Talo Kunj village of Kurram
Agency, an Afghan national was killed and another injured when
armed militants attacked a car going to Afghanistan.
SFs foiled a terror bid by defusing
explosive device placed behind a student hostel at Landikotal
College in Khyber Agency.
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October 8
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Two bullet-riddled dead bodies
were found near Alam Godar in Khyber Agency in FATA.
A woman and a child were injured
when militants fired rockets at residential area of Ara Khel in
the Frontier Region of Kohat.
A NATO tanker carrying fuel for
NATO forces in Afghanistan was blown up near Landi Kotal town
in Khyber Agency.
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October 9
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After about three years, rival
factions again signed a peace agreement here to restore peace
in Kurram Agency of FATA after the Government promised to provide
security on the main highway in the region.
Three persons, including two Security
personnel, were abducted by unidentified militants from the Thall-Parachinar
road in Kurram Agency.
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October 10 |
A blast on the Torkham-Landikotal
Bypass Road in Khyber Agency destroyed a vehicle and two military
jeeps carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan. A local militant
group, Abullah Ezzam Brigade (AEB), claimed responsibility for
the blast.
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October 11 |
KP Governor Masood Kausar escaped
a missile attack while six persons were injured in Orakzai Agency
of FATA when suspected militants fired rockets on a jirga.
A bus of Cadet College in Wana
town of South Waziristan Agency hit an explosive device planted
on the Wana Bypass Road, injuring the driver, identified as Hazratullah
and two Security Officials, Mohammad Ali and Khalid.
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October 12 |
In Ziarat Khazena area of Mohmand
Agency in FATA a child was killed and two others were injured
after a mortar shell exploded.
A journalist, Rehmatullah Khan
Derpakhel, abducted by suspected militants on August 11, 2011
was set free after a deal was struck between the abductors and
a jirga in Miranshah.
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October 13 |
Six militants - two Afghans and
four locals - were killed in a United States (US) drone attack
on a militant outpost on a hill in Zeba Mountain close to the
Afghan border in South Waziristan Agency of FATA.
SFs raided the house of an Afghan
militant, Hamza, in Grangi area of Mohmand Agency and killed him
in an exchange of fire. In addition, they also besieged MPA Muhammad
Ali`s house and in adjoining hujra conducted a search of the premises
and arrested six suspects wanted by LEA for criminal activities.
Three tankers carrying fuel for
NATO forces in Afghanistan were completely destroyed in two bomb
explosions in Landikotal town of Khyber Agency. A local militant
group, Abdullah Ezzam Brigade (AEB), claimed responsibility for
both the attacks.
It has come to light that the
four militants who were killed in a US drone strike on in Dandey
Darpakhel village in North Waziristan Agency belonged to the al
Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network. According to details, one of them
was a 'logistics commander', identified as Jamil Haqqani.
Two boys, identified as Amanullah
and Abdullah, out of a group of at least two dozen, managed to
escape TTP custody and return home more than 40 days after being
abducted. The boys were abducted on September 1, 2011, after they
crossed the border into Afghanistan, from the Ghakhi area in Mohmand
tehsil of Bajaur Agency. TTP had claimed responsibility
for the abduction.
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October 14 |
In its third attack in the last
two days, a US drone fired two missiles and killed four terrorists
in Darpakhel village, four kilometres west of Miranshah, in North
Waziristan Agency of FATA. Pakistani officials reported that10
militants were killed in two US drone strikes on October 13.
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October 15 |
US drone strikes killed six suspected
militants belonging to local 'Commander' Mullah Nazir group of
TTP in South Waziristan Agency of FATA near the Afghan border.
Officials claimed that warplanes
bombed hideouts on hilltops in Baizotkhel and Mistrikhel tehsil
of Orakzai Agency in FATA, killing 10 suspected militants and
injuring four others.
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October 16 |
The identity of the three militants,
among four, killed in October 14 US drone missile strike in Darpakhel
village, four kilometres west of Miranshah, in North Waziristan
Agency was disclosed. Out of the four militants killed in the
strike three were Egyptians linked to the Haqqani Network. A fourth
militant who was also killed has not been identified.
A khasadar was killed
and a levies trooper injured when their convoy was hit by an IED
in Miran Talab area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency.
In Jamrud tehsil, khasadar
force recovered the body of a local resident, identified as Alamgir.
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October 17 |
At least nine soldiers of the
FC force and 14 militants were killed in an ambush in the Akakhel
area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency. Three soldiers were
also wounded in the attack.
Suspected militants killed a chief
of the peace committee, identified as Azizur Rehman, of Orakzai
Agency and his four associates in an ambush on Dhodha Road.
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October 18 |
At least three persons were killed
when mortar shells fired by unidentified militants hit four houses
in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency.
Two tribal women sustained injuries
when mortar shell fell on the house of Zar Wali in Kalanga-Meri
Khel area. In Landikotal, a mosque adjacent to the house of MNA
Noorul Haq Qadri was hit by a rocket fired by unidentified militants
from a nearby hilltop.
In Akkakhel area, a prayer leader
Mulana Naseeb and two worshippers identified as Shafeeq and Salim
Afridi were critically injured when a mortar shell fell on Charsiyano
mosque.
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October 19 |
At least six terrorists belonging
to the Mullah Toofan group of TTP were killed and two hideouts
destroyed when SFs shelled them in the Spearkot area of Kurram
Agency.
At least five SF personnel sustained
injuries when a remote-controlled bomb went off in Jandola town
of South Waziristan Agency.
At least three militant hideouts
were destroyed when helicopter gunships shelled them in Mera Sar
and Baz Garha areas of Qamarkhel in Bara tehsil of Khyber
Agency.
A Government school for girls
was partially damaged in Kalanga Akkakhel area of Bara tehsil
when militants blew up its building by planting an IED.
An oil tanker carrying fuel to
NATO forces in Afghanistan was partially damaged when a time device
fitted in it exploded near Ali Masjid area of Khyber Agency.
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October 20 |
SFs launched a targeted operation
in Malikdeenkhel area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency and
killed 34 militants.
Militants killed Captain Abdul
Qadir Khan and two military personnel in an attack on a Frontier
Corps convoy in the Shalobar area of Bara tehsil.
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October 21 |
Terrorists armed with rockets
and hand grenades attacked the house of a prominent anti-Taliban
elder in Minzari Chinaa area, 90 kilometres northwest of Ghalanai,
the main town in Mohmand Agency, killing three people, including
a woman.
In Bajaur Agency, three militants
shot dead a member of a local peace committee in Chinar.
At least 1,000 families of Malikdeenkhel
and Sipah areas left their homes for 'safer places' as the SFs
were ready to launch an all-out operation against terrorists in
Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency.
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October 22 |
SFs arrested 30 suspects and destroyed
30 militant hideouts in Landikas, Nala and Malakdeenkhel areas
of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency.
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October 25 |
At least 18,000 people have fled
their homes in Khyber Agency of FATA, fearing a fresh onslaught
of fighting between the Army and militants, officials said. Families
streamed out of the Agency, a flashpoint for TTP and other groups
on the NATO supply line into neighbouring Afghanistan, after the
Army ordered them to leave because of military action going on
in the area. "Around 3,200 families, up to 18,000 people, have
arrived in the Jalozai refugee camp and we are making arrangements
to facilitate them," Adnan Khan, spokesman for the disaster management
authority of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province said.
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October 26 |
A volunteer of a local peace committee
and two cadres of LI were killed in exchange of fire in Meeran
Talab area of Akkakhel in Bara subdivision of Khyber Agency in
FATA.
Malak Rahmat Jan, a pro-Government
tribal elder and member of peace committee, was killed when militants
from across the Afghan border targeted his house with missiles
and mortars in Zari area of Lowi Mamond tehsil in Bajaur Agency.
Three workers of Frontier Works
Organisation were injured when their vehicle was targeted by a
landmine on Jandolla-Makeen Road near Manzai Ziarat area. The
workers of the construction company were going to Hathala camp
from Jandolla when they met the fatal incident at 8:30am (local
time).
Khasadar Force arrested an Afghan
national at Torkham border in Khyber Agency and recovered arms
from his possession. The recovered arms included rocket launchers,
mortars and cartridges.
Pakistani officials accused NATO
helicopters of violating Pakistan's airspace over the TTP and
Haqqani Network stronghold of North Waziristan Agency, along the
Afghan border. "Two helicopters intruded several kilometres inside
Pakistan territory in Datta Khel town around 2:00 am (2100 GMT
Tuesday)," a military official said.
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October 27 |
Two consecutive drone attacks
within a span of one hour killed 11 militants, including the brother
of Mullah Nazir, in Waziristan Agencies of FATA. An unmanned aircraft
attack killed five militants, including Omar Wazir, the younger
brother of Mullah Nazir, the 'commander' of Mullah Nazir group,
at Azam Warsak in Bermal tehsil, some 20 kilometres west of Wana,
the main town of South Waziristan Agency. Three of the five deceased
were identified as Hazrat Umar, Khan Mohammad and Ashfaq, while
the identities of the other two could not be ascertained.
Hours after, a second US drone
strike killed another six militants at Issakhel village in the
Mir Ali subdivision, some 30 kilometres east of Miramshah in North
Waziristan Agency. Sources said six militants were killed when
a US drone fired four missiles targeting a moving vehicle in Issakhel
village. However, it was not immediately clear which militant
group the six deceased belonged to.
The beheaded body of a volunteer
of an anti-TTP tribal lashkar was found in Bara area of Khyber
Agency. Officials said that militants belonging to LI abducted
a volunteer of Akkakhel tribal lashkar on October 26. His beheaded
body was found at a deserted place on October 27.
Four children including three
girls were injured when suspected militants from across the border
in Afghanistan fired mortar shells in the Kaza area of the Mamoond
tehsil in Bajaur Agency. The children were identified as Munasib,
Shazia, Palwasha and Shazia.
A Levies official Hayatullah and
a pedestrian identified as Siffatullah received injuries when
an explosive device went off near the Khyber Agency Headquarters
Hospital in Landi Kotal.
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October 28 |
At least 13 TTP militants were
killed in US drone attack in Mir Ali area of South Waziristan
Agency in FATA. Security sources said there was strong evidence
that Taj Gul Mehsud, a senior TTP 'commander' and close aide to
TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud, was among the victims in the attack.
Six others were injured, Security Forces said.
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October 30 |
Six militants were killed when
a US drone fired six missiles at a vehicle near the Afghanistan
border in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan Agency in FATA.
The high number of missiles used in the attack in the Datta Khel
area of North Waziristan seemed to indicate an important militant
was targeted. But the identities of those killed were as yet unknown,
said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Four persons were injured when
an explosive device went off at the shop of Nek Amal Khan in Tirah
Sakorhi village of Kukikhel in Khyber Agency.
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October 31 |
A US drone fired two missiles
killing three militants near Mubarak Shah town about 15 kilometres
east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan Agency of
FATA.
A boy identified as Asadullah
(18), of Bajaur Agency escaped from the custody of TTP after remaining
in their captivity for two months in Kunar province of Afghanistan.
Asadullah reached his home in Erab village of Mamond tehsil
in Bajaur. He was among the 27 boys of Bajaur, abducted by TTP
on August 31, 2011 after they crossed over to Afghanistan. The
Bajaur chapter of TTP had claimed responsibility for abducting
the 27 boys and keeping them hostages in Kunar province of Afghanistan.
SFs blew up four houses of alleged
terrorists affiliated to TTP and LI at Nala and Mandi Kas areas
of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency.
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November 1 |
Militants handed over dead bodies
of three SF personnel, who were abducted after the October 26
attack on a check post in Mohmand Agency of FATA, to the political
administration in the agency headquarters in Ghalanai, after successful
talks with a tribal jirga in Atmarkhel area of Baizai tehsil.
SFs demolished four hideouts and
a key base of militants in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency during
an operation. The base of LI was destroyed in Shalobar area. SFs
established a check post at the Nala Khwarh house of LI activist
Rashid Khan, who is allegedly involved in numerous attacks on
SFs in the area. In Jamrud tehsil, the local political administration
demolished the house of Stana Gul over his involvement in the
abduction of a trader. In addition, peace committee of Akakhel
demolished a militant hideout in Madakhel area.
Four of the 34 abducted coal miners
were freed by their captors in Kalakhel area in Bara tehsil of
Khyber Agency on October 31. The coal miners were abducted on
September 30, 2011.
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November 2 |
Two soldiers were killed and two
others got injured when some unidentified militants attacked a
security checkpoint near Afghan border in Miangan Ghundai checkpost
in Ghalanai, headquarters of Mohmand Agency, in FATA in the wee
hours. Sepoy Rishad Khan and levies soldier Umer Khitab embraced
martyrdom in the attack while two levies soldiers were injured.
LI militants abducted five family
members of the chief of Malikdinkhel Afridi tribe Haji Amal Gul
from his house in Nala area of Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency. The
sources said the militants reached Amal Gul's house and abducted
his five relatives including his grandson Rehman Gul, Shehzad
and Iqbal. The SFs through the loudspeaker had asked the residents
of Nala area the other day to form a peace lashkar against the
militants and the fighters of LI believed that Amal Gul had joined
hands with the SFs for the formation of tribal militias.
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November 3 |
US drone strike killed at least
three suspected Haqqani network militants in Darpakhel Sarai,
just outside Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan Agency
in FATA.
A security man was killed and
two others were injured when militants attacked a checkpost near
Sadda in Kurram Agency. Sources said that militants attacked a
checkpost of Levies Force near Sadda with heavy and light weapons.
The Levies personnel also retaliated and exchange of fire continued
for several hours. A security many identified as Gulab Gul was
killed while Sharab Khan and Fazli Khan were injured in the attack.
A house and a vehicle were partially
damaged when militants fired three missiles at Pewar area of Kurram
Agency.
Militants forcibly occupied the
houses of Jan Khan, Khana Jan and Sial Jan in Sipah area of Khyber
Agency. Sources said that militants also stocked huge quantity
of arms and ammunition in the occupied houses and were preparing
for a showdown with the SFs, busy in an operation in the area.
In Spin Qabar area, militants
destroyed the houses of two school teachers.
SFs arrested at least six suspected
militants and recovered arms and drugs from their possession during
a search operation in Arjali Nadi area in Bara.
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November 5 |
TTP militants launched an attack
on a military convoy near Razmak, more than 50 kilometres south
of Miranshah in North Waziristan, in FATA, killing five soldiers
and wounding three others. Troops retaliated immediately with
small and heavy weapons but there was no report of TTP casualties.
Three soldiers were killed and
seven others injured in an ambush in Speen Mella area of South
Waziristan. Three vehicles of a bomb disposal squad were travelling
to Zangara check-post from Zahidullah security post when militants
ambushed them with rockets and Kalashnikovs in Speen Mella area.
The wife of pro-government tribal
elder Malak Mohammad Omar was killed and he himself, his father
and a son were injured when about 25 militants stormed his house
in Bara Kaman Gara area of Nawagai tehsil of Bajaur Agency. Political
Tehsildar Shah Naseem Khan told reporters that one of the attackers
was killed and several others injured when Security Forces and
tribal volunteers fired back.
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November 6 |
The leaders of a tribal lashkar,
Malak Amanullah, and two other people were shot dead when suspected
militants opened fire in Azam Warsak bazaar, about 20 kilometres
west of Wana, in South Waziristan Agency of FATA. Three people
were injured in the attack and taken to a hospital in Wana where
two of them died. Malak Amanullah had played an important role
in forcing Uzbeks and their local Ahmedzai Wazir supporters to
leave Waziristan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
One of the attackers was reportedly killed in firing by men accompanying
the Malak.
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November 9 |
Two persons, a girl and a suspected
militant, were killed while a hospital and dozens of medicine
shops were destroyed during a clash between SFs and militants
in Miramshah Bazaar of North Waziristan Agency in FATA. Locals
said that militants targeted Stadium checkpost and Amin post with
heavy and light weapons from the roofs of high buildings in Miramshah
Bazaar. SFs, backed by helicopter gunships and artillery, targeted
the buildings where suspected militants were taking shelter. The
gun battle continued for over 16 hours. Sources said that SFs
blew up the Medical Complex Plaza, destroying more than 50 medicine
shops, costly machinery including ultrasound machines, X-ray plants
and other valuable electronic equipment causing millions of rupees
losses to the owners. Three children were also injured as various
blocks including dental block, Operation Theatre and medical ward
of the hospital were damaged.
Militants fired three rockets
from Tangi Zaira Raisy Mountain at Paywar village In Kurram Agency.
However, no casualty was reported. It was the second attack on
Paywar village within one week.
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November 10 |
At least six persons, four lashkar
members and two LI militants were killed in a clash between militants
and local pro-Government militia in Akakhel area of Khyber Agency
in FATA.
The SFs intensified operation
against alleged terrorists in Bara, especially during Eidul Azha
to dismantle network of militant groups such as LI and TTP to
create durable peace and establish the writ of the Government
that it has lost for the last more than five years The search
operations by the SFs have been continued in Bara sub-division
of Khyber Agency for the last 23 months, but the SFs or the political
administration has not been able to announce that the area is
cleared of militants and is safe for the local residents to go
back to their homes to re-start their routine life.
Unidentified militants blew up
a boys' school in Khawaja Was Kor area of Haleemzai tehsil
in Mohmand Agency.
The militants attacked a joint
checkpost of Levies and Khassadar force in Sharaf Kor area of
Safi tehsil The SFs repulsed the attack and no life loss
occurred in the clash.
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November 12 |
At least six persons, including
two children and a woman, were killed when a mortar fired by militants
fell on a house in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency in FATA. Sources
said that the militants wanted to target a nearby check post of
SFs but missed the target and fell on the house.
Six LI militants were killed and
10 others wounded at Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency during an encounter
at a Frontier Corps check post. SF arrested all the injured militants.
Militants refused to release the
26 labourers abducted from Kalakhel area of Khyber Agency on September
30, 2011. Militants had demanded PNR 1.5 million for release of
the abducted workers and the local committee had agreed to pay
the amount but later the abductors refused to release the labourers
so the money was not paid, a tribal elder said. "Militants have
threatened to kill the abducted labourers if Government initiates
any operation against them in the region," he added.
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November 13 |
Nine volunteers of Zakhakhel tribal
lashkar were killed and six others injured when a bomb concealed
in a donkey cart exploded near a watermill in Mastak bazaar of
Khyber Agency in FATA. No group has claimed responsibility for
the blast. The Zakhakhel tribal lashkar and the Mangal Bagh-led
LI are at loggerheads since April 2011.
Two militants were killed as clashes
continued between LI and Ansarul Islam in Serhai Kandao area of
Tirah valley. Sources said that fresh clashes erupted in Serhai
Kandao area where the militants were engaged in fierce fighting
to take control of some hilltops under the control of the LI.
In Malikdinkhel area, militants
attacked a security post at midnight of November 12. Officials
said that troops repulsed the attack which caused minor damage
to the post. Nobody was injured in the attack. Troops imposed
a curfew in Malikdinkhel area and arrested about 26 suspected
militants.
In Bajaur Agency, SF arrested
five suspects and neutralised two landmines during a search operation
in Mamond tehsil. Officials said that SF launched an operation
after a roadside bomb exploded during patrolling of soldiers in
Tarkho area of Mamond tehsil. Nobody was injured in the blast.
Bomb disposal squad neutralised
a time bomb planted under a bridge in Khar Kallay of Kurram Agency.
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November 14 |
Five FC personnel were killed
and six others injured when militants first attacked a check-post
and later an FC convoy in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency in FATA.
The FC personnel led by Lieutenant-Colonel Azhar Amin had gone
to Nala in Malikdin Khel area to shift the body of Latif Khan
who was killed when militants had attacked a check-post in the
morning. As the FC convoy was carrying the body militants ambushed
it, killing four personnel, identified as Ibrahim, Majeed, Waseem
and Salman. Officials said that Lieutenant-Colonel Azhar Amin,
Naib Subedar Noor Badshah, Sepoys Zahid Khan, Mashoor Khan and
two others were injured.
A drone strike targeting a house
killed five people in Miranshah Bazaar of North Waziristan Agency.
The identities of those killed could not be immediately verified,
however, the area is known as a strong bastion of Taliban and
al Qaeda linked militants.
SFs killed three militants and
injured four who intruded into Mohmand Agency from Afghanistan
overnight. They said that personnel of Khasadar Force and Frontier
Corps, manning a checkpost in the Olay area, challenged the militants
when they were entering Baizai tehsil at about 8:15 pm.
One person was killed and eight
others, including six women, were injured when militants fired
mortar shells at Jawaki area of Frontier Region of Kohat. Official
sources said that militants fired several mortar shells from the
Tor Chappar mountain of Darra Adamkhel at the residential area
of Jawaki.
A mortar shell landed in the house
of Khyber Khan Afridi, which reportedly wounded a minor child
and two women inside the house at Meri Khel area of Akakhel tehsil
in Khyber Agency.
Five suspected persons were arrested
and arms and ammunition were recovered from their possession in
a search operation by SFs at Tarkho area of Mamound tehsil of
Bajaur Agency.
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November 15 |
At least 28 militants were killed
and 12 others injured during clashes with SFs in the Dabori area
of Orakzai Agency in FATA. At least 11 places said to have been
used by militants as hideouts were destroyed. According to sources,
clashes erupted during a military operation launched in the Zakhtun
and Marghan areas in upper tehsil of the Agency.
The death toll in the drone attack
in Miramshah town of North Waziristan Agency rose to seven. Earlier,
it was reported that five militants were killed.
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November 16 |
One Army major, Major Sikandar,
and 20 militants were killed during a clash when about 60 militants
attacked the Marazan checkpost in the central Kurram Agency of
FATA in the night. At least nine hideouts of the militants were
destroyed.
Five US drones fired up to 10
missiles into a sprawling compound in the Baber Ghar area of South
Waziristan Agency, killing 18 militants.
Nine militants were reportedly
killed as SFs destroyed six militant hideouts and a double-cabin
vehicle in Koranchi and Dapar Parari areas of Upper tehsil in
Orakzai Agency. Elsewhere in the Agency, the militants attacked
a post in Ghundai Makki. The SFs in retaliatory fire killed two
militants.
Six tribesmen were killed and
two others sustained injuries when a vehicle ran over a roadside
landmine in Spori area of Khyber Agency. The vehicle was coming
from Jani Khel tehsil to Jamrud tehsil.
SFs launched a house-to-house
search operation in Babikhel area of Haleemzai tehsil in Mohmand
Agency and recovered at least 303 guns.
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November 17 |
22 militants were killed and 10
others injured during the fighting with SFs in Ghaljo and Sheena
Warai areas of Upper tehsil in Orakzai Agency of FATA.
Nine militants were killed during
clashes with SF personnel in Amlok village in Central tehsil
of Kurram Agency.
US drones fired four missiles
at a home in the Razmak area of North Waziristan Agency near the
Afghanistan border, killing eight alleged militants.
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November 18 |
At least eight militants and a
Policeman were killed in clashes between SFs and militants in
Wacha Wana of Orakzai Agency in FATA.
SFs killed a militant and injured
another during a clash in Spinwam area of North Waziristan Agency.
A Government primary school for
girls was blown up in the Danqol village of Salarzai tehsil
in Bajaur Agency. However, no casualty was reported. Officials
said militants had blown up 105 schools in the agency since 2007.
Four suspected burka-clad men
of foreign origin were detained at the Saidgi check-post in the
Frontier Region Bannu. Dressed as women, the men were coming to
Bannu from North Waziristan by car. It could not be immediately
ascertained which country the suspects belong to.
Britain is looking into reports
that two UK nationals accused of extremist links were killed in
a US drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region, the Foreign Office
said. The men were named as Ibrahim Adam (24), and Mohammed Azmir
(37), by their family and friends, Britain's Press Association
domestic news agency reported. They were killed in the Waziristan
tribal region bordering Afghanistan at least three months ago,
it reported.
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November 19 |
At least 10 militants were killed
and several others injured as helicopter gunships pounded hideouts
of militants for hours in Adokhel, Mir Kalamkhel, Jabba, Sama
Bazaar and Mamozai areas of Upper Kurram Agency in FATA. The shelling
was so intense at times that people started leaving their areas.
Several hideouts were destroyed and a militant training centre
was also razed.
Two tribesmen were killed when
a mortar shell fell on a house in Toor Toot area of Tirah valley
in Khyber Agency.
Unidentified armed men shot dead
two suspected militants in Akkakhel area of Bara tehsil.
The suspected militants were riding a motorcycle when they were
attacked by the gunmen. The attackers managed to escape after
the incident.
A senior member of Salarzai Peace
Committee, Malik Gul Akbar, escaped an attempt on his life by
unidentified militants in Salarzai tehsil of Bajaur Agency.
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November 20 |
At least 10 militants were killed
and four others were injured during an operation when SFs shelled
the hideouts of terrorists in Mamozai, Addu Khail and Mir Khail
areas of Orakzai Agency in the FATA.
Six dead bodies of LI were found
in the Qamber Abad area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency.
According to sources, two of the killed were from the Sepah tribe,
while the other four were from the Malik Deen Khel tribe.
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November 21 |
SFs backed by gunship helicopters
pounded militants' hideouts, killing 11 TTP militants and injuring
25 others in central tehsil of Kurram Agency in FATA.
Gunship choppers targeted militants'
positions near the Afghan border in the upper Orakzai Agency and
killed 10 militants and destroyed five hideouts.
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November 22 |
A trooper and a lashkar were killed
when militants attacked a check post in Qambar Abad locality of
Bara subdivision in Khyber Agency of FATA. Sources said that at
least nine persons were arrested when Security Forces conducted
a search operation in the area after the incident.
In Akkakhel area, another lashkar
was killed when militants ambushed a patrol party of the local
peace body.
Militants attacked two oil tankers
supplying fuel to NATO forces in Afghanistan near Charwazgai area
of Landikotal.
Bomb Disposal Squad defused a
bomb which was placed near a medicine shop in the main market
of Landikotal.
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November 23 |
Clashes between SFs and militants
occurred in Kurram and Orakzai Agencies of FATA killing at least
45 militants in ground action and air strikes. Clashes erupted
after a militant attack in Jugai area of central Kurram killing
20 militants in the ongoing clashes between SFs and militants.
Another 16 militants were killed when helicopter gunships attacked
militant hideouts in Gawaza and Gawaki areas of the Agency. Reports
claimed that two security personnel were killed and 15 others
were injured. Later, bodies of the three missing soldiers were
also recovered.
Nine militants were killed and
three injured in clashes in the upper tehsil of Orakzai
Agency. A vehicle loaded with weapons and ammunition had been
destroyed. According to official claims, over 200 militants have
been killed in the offensive.
A NATO supply oil tanker hit an
explosive device in Landikotal town on Torkham Road near Michni
check post in Khyber Agency. The driver and the conductor of the
oil tanker fled unhurt from the scene.
An explosion damaged three classrooms
in the Government middle school Abdul Latif Kali in Landikotal
town. The blast was so huge that it smashed the windowpanes of
the whole school and the nearby houses.
LEA arrested a suspected person,
identified as Akhtar Jan, with two hand grenades from sports complex,
where Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Masood Kausar was witnessing
as chief guest a friendly football match between Parachinar and
Sadda teams in Parachinar, the capital of Kurram Agency.
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November 24 |
Twelve persons, five women and
two children among them, were injured in a bomb attack on a passenger
bus near Durrani village in the lower Kurram Agency of FATA. Officials
said the coach was going to Peshawar from Parachinar when a remote-controlled
device went off near Durrani village. Sources said that six suspects
had been arrested in the case.
SFs foiled a terrorism bid by
recovering two kilogrammes of explosive material from a pick-up
van coming from Tri Mangal area of the Upper Kurram Agency at
an internal check-post in Parachinar. SFs arrested the five people
sitting in the car.
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November 25 |
SFs targeted terrorist strongholds
in Kurram Agency of FATA at the midnight, killing 35 and injuring
15 others. Four soldiers were also killed in the firefight, which
lasted several hours.
SFs killed 16 militants and arrested
two others in Dabori and Khadezai areas of upper tehsil in Orakzai
Agency. Sources said that one soldier was injured in clashes with
insurgents.
Six militants were killed when
an explosive device went off in their vehicle. Sources said a
group of militants was going to an unknown location from Dabori
area when a powerful blast took place in their vehicle near Gundital
village, killing six militants on the spot.
Militants destroyed houses of
pro-government tribal elders Malik Amin Badshah and Wazir Gul
in central parts of the agency. No loss of life was reported because
the two elders had moved to safe areas with their families.
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November 26 |
At least 25 soldiers were killed
in a cross border attack by NATO on a check post in Salala village
in Baizai tehsil of Mohmand Agency in FATA. At least 12 soldiers
were injured, added Express Tribune. The Salala village is an
area bordering the Kunar province of Afghanistan. ISPR sources
confirmed the attack, but could not determine the number of casualties
as the interrogation was still underway. According to reports,
at least 40 soldiers were stationed at the check post.
Pakistan's acting ambassador to
the US, Iffat Gardezi, registered a protest against the incident
with officials of the US State Department. Gardezi termed the
incident as a violation of Pakistan's border and sovereignty and
said that it could hurt ties between the two countries.
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November 27 |
At least 12 militants were killed
and 15 injured in an ongoing operation launched by SFs in Kundital
area of Orakzai Agency in FATA. One SF official was also killed
in the attack.
A man was injured in a bomb blast
in Sultankhel area of Khyber Agency. According to an eyewitness,
some locals and Khasadar officials were returning after offering
funeral prayer of a woman when they saw a two-kilogramme bomb
planted on the way between cars. The bomb went off a when they
touched it with a bamboo. Resultantly, a local identified as Mehrab
Khan was injured.
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November 28 |
Six Khasadar Force personnel got
injured when a powerful bomb explosion destroyed a Khasadar Force's
vehicle in a mechanic repair store on Torkham road in front of
the Landikotal Press Club in Landikotal of Khyber Agency in FATA.
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November 29 |
A bomb blast that ripped through
a funeral prayer of a local tribesman in Shakai road of South
Waziristan Agency in FATA bordering Afghanistan killed two persons
and injured another three.
A woman and a girl were killed
while three other women were injured when a mortar shell landed
in a house at Sheikhan area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency.
Two persons were injured when
reportedly a landmine exploded in a field in Kot Azam, a village
some 15 kilometres of Tank, of South Waziristan Agency.
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December 1 |
Nine militants were killed and
several others injured when SFs pounded their hideouts in Akhun
Kot, Barlas, Adokhel and other areas of Mamozai in Orakzai Agency
of FATA. Three hideouts were destroyed. SFs have claimed considerable
gains in the military operation continuing for the last 15 days.
At least 180 militants have been killed and 72 others injured
in the operation so far, according to the sources.
Five militants were killed as
clashes between two rival groups in Maylo village of Tirah valley
in Khyber Agency entered the second day. The Kukikhel support
the LI against the Tariq Afridi group of the TTP. The Kukikhel
and LI cadres are reported to have taken control of an important
TTP base and seized three bunkers on the hilltops overlooking
the Maylo village.
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December 2 |
Eight militants were killed and
a trooper was injured in a clash in Dabori area of Orakzai Agency
in FATA. The sources said that SFs were carrying out a search
operation in Tasakhel area of Dabori, about 68km north of Ghiljo,
when militants attacked them, injuring Sepoy Abbas. The SFs in
a retaliatory action shelled suspected locations. At least eight
militants were killed in the fighting.
A clash between the Zakha Khel
Peace Lashkar and LI at Narri Baba area in Tirah Valley of Khyber
Agency killed two Lashkar members and seriously wounded another
two. The clash erupted over the possession of a hill post at Narri
Baba.
Militants of Tariq Afridi group
of TTP were forced to flee from their stronghold in Tirah Valley
after its rival militant group LI took control of the Maylo base
after a fierce clash. Sources said that dozens of TTP slipped
out of Maylo village through secret routes in the night after
the LI militants took control of the TTP base in the area. The
LI also had the support of Kukikhel volunteers who were opposing
the presence of TTP in their area since long. LI sources in Bara
claimed to have seized a huge quantity of arms and ammunition
from the TTP base along side laying their hand on a number of
mules, donkeys and pick up vehicles.
Torkham Custom's officials and
the political administration sent back around 68 commercial fuel
tankers from the Torkham border, which were crossing to Peshawar.
CBR officials reportedly circulated a formal letter amongst custom
officials in Peshawar and Torkham asking them to stop commercial
fuel export to Afghanistan amid the growing tension between US
and Pakistan over NATO attack. Sources said that NATO forces stationed
in Afghanistan were short of fuel deposits after the Government
of Pakistan stopped NATO consignments and blocked the fuel supply
through Torkham and Chaman borders.
The Finance Ministry is delaying
in releasing funds to the FATA Secretariat which has sought PKR
11 billion for creating 4,545 jobs, a National Assembly Committee
was informed. A FATA Secretariat Official informed the Standing
Committee on State and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) that the Ministry
had so far agreed to release funds for 1,000 posts but even those
funds had not been released. In 2009, the FATA Secretariat initiated
a case for the creation of 4,545 posts for which PKR 11 billion
was demanded. Safron Secretary Habibullah Khan said that all formalities
had been completed in this regard and only release of funds from
the Finance Ministry was awaited. The members complained that
neither funds were released nor appointments made in FATA. The
situation, they said, was creating a sense of deprivation and
frustration among the residents. The committee noted with concern
that the Finance Ministry had released only PKR1 billion out of
the approved development budget of PKR 15 billion during the current
fiscal year. The committee was of the view that the provision
of PKR 1.8 billion for strengthening 'peace committees' and lashkars
should be rationalised.
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December 3 |
At least 20 militants were killed
and two soldiers were injured in an operation conducted by the
SFs in different parts of FATA. According to media reports, the
militants first started indiscriminate firing at the SFs in Anzar
Kalay area of Orakzai Agency. The SFs retaliated, and as a result
eight militants were killed on the spot, while two soldiers sustained
injuries.
SFs shelled five terrorist hideouts
in different areas of North Waziristan Agency at Zakhtan, Arhang
and Shaker Tangi and killed 12 militants.
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December 4 |
Six persons including three women
and three children of a family received injuries when a mortar
shell hit a house in Akkakhel area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency
of FATA.
One soldier sustained injuries
when a convoy of SFs came under militants attack in Malikdin Khel
area.
Unidentified persons blew up an
under-construction house of a transporter in Sado Khel area of
Landi Kotal. Sources said that Sartaj, the owner of the house,
was a supplier of fuel to NATO forces in Afghanistan. He was receiving
threats from local militant groups, they added.
SFs recovered six remote controlled
explosive devices, planted along the main road near Mir Ali in
North Waziristan Agency. The explosive devices were later defused
safely.
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December 5 |
Despite tall claims of authorities
about improvement in law and order situation in Mohmand Agency
of FATA, only a single school out of the total 83 educational
institutions, destroyed during the last three years, has been
rebuilt so far.
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December 6 |
Twelve militants and two SF personnel
were killed in overnight clashes in the Jogi village of Masozai
in Kurram Agency of FATA on the Afghan border.
Militants fired four RPGs near
a Shia Ashura procession in the town of Kalaya in the Orakzai
Agency. No casualties were reported in the incident.
The Kukikhel tribal lashkar peace
committee expelled the TTP militants from their area of the Tirah
Valley, bordering Afghanistan. The TTP's Tariq Afridi group had
seized the homes and agricultural lands of the Kukikhel tribe
in remote Tirah nine months ago. The volunteers not only expelled
the Taliban but took control of all their bases and bunkers, Zabita
Khan, a Kukikhel elder, said.
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December 7 |
The FATA Democratic Movement (FDM)
has rejected a proposal of FATA Grand Alliance about awarding
status of separate province to the tribal areas. "It will be better
to give representation to tribal people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Assembly as status of separate province will further add to the
problems of Fata," FDM president Abdur Reheem Afridi told a press
conference on December 7. "Making separate province from the war-torn
Fata is not viable. It will further increase the miseries of tribal
people instead of ridding them of problems," he added.
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December 8 |
The Khyber Agency coordinator
of the HRPC, Zarteef Khan Afridi, was shot dead by unidentified
assailants in Jamrud town of Khyber Agency in FATA.
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December 9 |
One trooper sustained injuries
as an advancing contingent of SFs stepped on a landmine in the
Talai area of the Kurram Agency in FATA.
Unidentified militants abducted
16 poor labourers from the Shelman area of Landikotal in Khyber
Agency in the midnight. The workers were abducted by militants
from the bank of the river Kabul at Sheen Pokh side in Loy Shelman.
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December 10 |
At least three militants were
killed and one soldier sustained injuries during clashes between
SFs and militants in the Murghan area of Kurram Agency in FATA.
Unidentified militants killed
two tribesmen of Zakhakhel tribe in Kharhy Mela area of Tirah
valley in Khyber Agency.
The bullet-riddled body of a resident
of Shalobar in Bara tehsil was found at a deserted place. The
deceased was identified as Gul Badshah. A chit left along the
body said that supporters of the tribal lashkar would meet the
same fate. However, nobody claimed responsibility for the killing.
Unidentified militants blew up
two shrines in the Kam Shelman area of Landikotal. The shrines
of Sheikh Bahadar Baba and Sheikh Mosa Baba, which were reportedly
a hundred years old, were blown up with explosive material.
Unidentified militants lobbed
grenades at the residence of Sandroop Khan, causing damage to
the house in Shah Kas of Jamrud tehsil. Nobody was hurt in the
attack. The reason of the grenade attack was stated to be an old
family dispute.
Security Forces arrested two suspected
militants in Shah Kas. Officials said that the arrested men belonged
to Charsadda District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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December 12 |
At least four militants were killed
when rival militant outfits clashed in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency
in FATA. The dead belonged to the LI. The clash resulted from
LI support for a tribal anti-TTP peace committee in the Tirah
Valley, Bara Assistant Political Agent Rehan Khattak said. A TTP
spokesman claimed responsibility for killing the LI activists
and warned that more such attacks would follow. The LI assisted
the Kukikhel peace lashkar in dislodging the TTP from one of its
strongholds in the Tirah Valley a week ago.
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December 13 |
Six persons, among them four children,
were killed when militants attacked houses in Shalobar area of
Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency of FATA after Security Forces launched
a search operation against militants.
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December 14 |
Two pro-Government peace lashkar
volunteers killed and three others sustained bullets injuries
in the encounter between the militants and Khasadars along with
peace lashkar volunteers in Shalobar area of Bara tehsil in Khyber
Agency of FATA.
A bomb blast injured two tribal
elders of Koki Khel tribe at Wache wane area in Tirah valley.
The TTP ruled out any negotiations
with the Government and claimed to have control over most areas
of South Waziristan Agency of FATA. In an interview with a three-member
delegation of senior tribal journalists at a command and control
centre of militants in South Waziristan Agency, the key 'operational
commander' and 'chief' of Laddah sub-division chapter of TTP,
Shamim Mehsud, rejected any contacts with the Government under
the present circumstances.
The journalists were allowed to
visit various sections of the centre situated at a distance of
about three kilometres from a camp of SFs. They spent a night
there and met well-equipped TTP militants whose number remained
30 during the day and 45 at night.
'Commander' Shamim Mehsud refuted
the claim of security forces that the writ of the government had
been enforced in the tribal area. "If there is control of security
forces, how will we freely run our training, control and command
centres."
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December 15 |
Two watchmen, identified as Azeem
and Niaz Ameen Sheikhmal Khel Shinwari, were killed by unidentified
militants when they were patrolling the graveyard particularly
the graves of the relatives of MNA Noorul Haq Qadri in Peero Khel
graveyard of Landikotal town of Khyber Agency in FATA in the night.
A local militant outfit, Abdullah Ezaam Brigade, claimed responsibility
for the killings.
A newly built house was dynamited
at Sheikhmal Khel area of Landikotal. The house of Gul Ahmad Shinwari
was completely damaged in the blast. However, no casualty was
reported in the blast.
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December 16 |
25 militants and one soldier were
killed in clashes between the militants and Frontier Corps in
Khanki village in the Upper Orakzai region in FATA. Frontier Corps
were attacked by 50 militants while driving through the Mamuzai
area of Orakzai, the stronghold of Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader
of TTP. One soldier was killed and more than 20 were wounded.
The troops retaliated and killed at least 25 militants.
Three people, including a woman,
were killed after mortar shells hit their house in Muslim Dhand
area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency.
Two militants and a security official
were killed in a clash in Dogra area. An official of the local
political administration said the clash occurred after Security
Forces were attacked by militants. He said after the attack, the
forces and militants intensely exchanged fire leaving two militants
and a security official dead.
A girl was killed and four of
her family members injured when a mortar shell fell on their house
in Bara tehsil. A mortar shell fell on the house of Khan Sher,
killing his six-year-old daughter and injuring another daughter
besides son, nephew and a niece.
An explosive device went off alongside
a road in Kukikhel area of Tirah valley. However, no damage to
human life was reported in the explosion.
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December 17 |
Three soldiers, including an official,
were killed in an IED blast at Katasarai village in Kurram Agency
of FATA. No outfit claimed responsibility for the attack. However,
local intelligence officials suspect the involvement of TTP.
Unidentified militants blew up
a State-run girls' high school in the night by detonating explosive
material in Ghundi area of Jamrud tehsil. The total number of
destroyed schools in Khyber Agency has reached to 61 with the
latest blast.
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December 18 |
At least 17 militants were killed
during an air assault on their secret hideouts by Security Forces
in Jawaki and Samaa areas of Orakzai Agency in FATA. Three secret
hideouts were neutralised.
A militant was killed and four
tribal people were injured in different incidents. TTP militants
killed a cadre of LI in Dwa Thoe area of Tirah valley in Khyber
Agency.
Elsewhere in the Agency, three
members of a family - Abdul Haq, his wife and his teenage son
- were injured when a mortar shell fell on their house in Merikhel
area of Akkakhel.
In a similar incident in Sipah
area, a minor daughter of Zareef Khan was injured and two rooms
of his house were badly damaged.
The representative Jirga of tribal
agencies 'FATA Grand Alliance' in Islamabad demanded of the Government
for making an end to the ongoing military operation in tribal
areas besides initiating peace process through dialogue to restore
normalcy in the affected areas. The FATA Grand Alliance (FGA)
meeting was held under the chairmanship of Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi
MNA Khyber Agency.
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December 19 |
Two SF personnel were injured
in a landmine explosion in the Katisar area of Kurram Agency in
FATA.
Eight cadres of Punjab chapter
of TTP were arrested in Kalatoi area of Birmal tehsil in Wana
sub-division of South Waziristan Agency during a search operation.
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December 20 |
The political administration of
Khyber Agency (FATA) warned Kukikhel tribe of strict action if
it fails to fulfil its collective territorial responsibility by
expelling extremist elements from its area. Addressing a jirga
of Kukikhel tribe in Jamrud, Assistant Political Agent Mohammad
Jameel made it clear to the tribal elders that situation deteriorated
in the area during the last few days as militants shot dead down
a human rights activist and later blew up a high school for girls.
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December 21 |
At least 30 TTP militants were
killed and 18 SF personnel were injured in the ongoing operation
in Upper Orakzai Agency of FATA.
Seven SF personnel were injured
when a checkpost was hit by a rocket in Kotkai area in SWA.
Five children of a family received
injuries when a mortar shell hit a house in Nala area of Malikdinkhel
in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency.
Unidentified militants blew up
three shops of narcotics at Safeerullah Market in Ghundi area
of Jamrud. The Abdullah Azzam Brigade accepted responsibility
for destroying the shops.
Unidentified militants blew up
a private medical store at Karikot area in SWA and managed to
escape from the scene.
A tribesman Malik Noor, a resident
of North Waziristan Agency, decided to sue the Government of United
Kingdom for extending help to the US in drone attack in the FATA.
A legal notice was issued to UK Foreign Minister to reply till
January 12 or face litigation, Malik Noor told in a press conference
in Peshawar (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa).
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December 23 |
One girl was killed and five persons,
including children were injured when stray mortar shells fell
on three different houses in Shalobar area of Bara tehsil
in Khyber Agency of FATA.
Four children were injured in
two separate incidents when shells hit two houses.
One Kukikhel tribesman was injured
in a roadside bomb blast in Serhai area of Tirah Valley.
Unidentified militants blew up
Bacha Khan Foundation's middle school in Khugakhel area of Landikotal.
The school's building was razed to the ground. However, no casualty
was reported. The same school had also been targeted last year.
SFs arrested four suspected militants
during a search operation in Shakas area of Jamrud tehsil. Officials
said that arrested suspects included two young sons of Haji Najeebullah,
a former local ameer of JeI.
SFs imposed ban on pillion riding
in Bara tehsil of the Agency and warned that violators
would be shot on sight. Bara Assistant Political Agent Rehan Khattak
said that the step was taken to curb attacks against SFs and supporters
of the local administration.
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December 24 |
Terrorists blew up a Government
school in the Noor Khel village in Landikotal sub-division of
Khyber Agency in FATA.
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December 25 |
At least 22 militants and three
SF personnel were killed and unspecified number of others got
injured as clashes erupted between the two sides in Jogi area
in Kurram Agency of FATA.
12 militants were killed and seven
others injured when jet fighters pounded militant hideouts in
Toor Semat, Jandri and Jabba Killi localities in Muhammadzai,
a TTP stronghold, of Orakzai Agency. At least five hideouts were
destroyed.
A LI cadre, Shafeeq, was killed
when SFs opened firing after their convoy was attacked in Nala
Malikdinkhel area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency. Two security
personnel received injuries when the convoy was attacked.
Three children and a woman were
injured when mortar shells fell on the houses of Ibrahim and Haji
Mohammad in Spin Qabar area of Bara.
A mosque and an overhead water
tank were also damaged in Hissar Khan Kallay by the mortar shells.
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December 26 |
Seven militants of an unidentified outfit were
killed when Security Forces (SFs) shelled the terrorists' hideouts
in the Mamozai and Khadizai areas of Orakzai Agency in FATA.
Eight suspected militants were killed in shelling
by SFs in the ongoing operation in the Musazai and Jogi areas
of Kurram Agency.
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December 27 |
A pro-Government tribal elder of Mamond tribe
and senior leader of peace committee, Malik Fazal Wahid (42),
escaped unhurt when a remote-controlled bomb exploded near his
car in the Damadola area of Bajaur Agency in FATA.
Terror bid was foiled by SFs who defused two remote
control devices, planted at two separate spots on the main highway
stretching from Parachinar to Peshawar.
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December 28 |
SFs pounded terrorists' positions in Mamozai,
Khadizai and Chapar Kali areas of Orakzai Agency in FATA and killed
seven terrorists besides destroying four terror safe houses. Over
40 rockets and a large number of landmines were recovered during
search operation in Arhang, Zakhtun and Gandi Tal areas.
Five suspected terrorists were killed in clashes
with SFs in Kurram Agency.
The relief extended to militancy-affected people
of FATA has led to increase the number of voters in the region
as over one million people have obtained computerised national
identity cards (CNIC) in seven agencies.
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December 29 |
Unidentified assailants shot dead a member of
the Shinwari tribe, Talib Shinwari, the son of Khizar Shinwari,
in Jamrud area of Khyber Agency in FATA.
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December 30 |
Six militants were killed and four others were
injured when jets bombarded militant hideouts in Garium area of
North Waziristan Agency in FATA.
Two volunteers of a local peace committee, Nawaz
Khan (24) and Hazart Khan (22), were killed and three, including
a woman, sustained injuries when a remote-controlled bomb exploded
in Salarzai tehsil of Bajaur Agency.
Two persons, including tribal leader Malik Aziz
Khan Mehsud, were killed and four others sustained injuries when
unidentified militants fired a mortar shell from unknown direction
in Shakoi area of Laddah tehsil in South Waziristan Agency.
A TTP militant was killed and eight others were
injured in an attack by helicopter gunships on their hideout in
Makeen area of SWA. Sources said that two helicopter gunships
shelled the hideout belonging to the TTP.
A militant 'commander', Qasim, was arrested in
an injured condition from the Government hospital in Wana of SWA.
Troops also detained his two brothers and two TTP militants. Commander
Qasim was affiliated with the Maulvi Nazir group of TTP and was
injured in clashes with NATO forces in Afghanistan, sources added.
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December 31 |
Four schoolchildren were killed and 21 persons,
mostly students, got injured in two incidents in Khyber Agency.
According to officials, a bomb went off outside the Hujra of tribal
elder Malik Rasool Jan, where a jirga was in progress. Two students
of a nearby school were killed and 14 injured. Two elders of Khugakhel
tribe were also wounded.
A bomb ripped through a military vehicle killing
two soldiers in at Boya village, some 20 kilometres west of Miranshah,
in North Waziristan Agency.
A security official was injured when a convoy
was hit by a roadside explosion in Malikdinkhel of Bara tehsil
in Khyber Agency.
SF averted subversive attempt by recovered a cache
of arms and ammunition during a raid on a house at Sorgar in Bara
tehsil. The recovered arms and ammunition included anti-aircraft
gun, 75RR gun, 11 rounds, SPG9 gun, 299 rounds of 82mm, 450 rounds
of 40mm, 233 rounds of SPG 9, SPG9 gun, 720 fuzzes of 30mm, 168
rounds of 81mm, three mortars of 81mm, two guns of 12.7 range
and other explosive and ammunitions.
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