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India-Pakistan
Anti-Taliban activist found beheaded in Bara
2011-10-29
[Dawn] The beheaded body of a volunteer of an anti-Taliban tribal lashkar was found in Bara while a Levies official and a civilian were maimed in a blast in Landi Kotal tehsil of Khyber Agency on Thursday.

Officials said that snuffies belonging to Lashkar-i-Islam kidnapped a volunteer of Akkakhel tribal lashkar the other day. His beheaded body was found at a deserted place on Thursday morning, they added.

Two activists of Lashkar-i-Islam were killed on Wednesday when they clashed with the tribal lashkar in Akkakhel. Officials said that the beheading of the volunteer could be a result of Wednesday`s clash.

Also, two NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
containers were destroyed in a blast in Torkham on Thursday evening, eyewitnesses said.

They said that the containers were parked in a parking lot near the border when an bomb fitted in one of them went off. Both the containers caught fire and were destroyed.

Meanwhile,
...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last...
a Levies official Hayatullah and a pedestrian identified as Siffatullah received injuries when an bomb went off near the Agency Headquarters Hospital in Landi Kotal on Thursday morning.

Political authorities started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified persons and started investigations. In another incident, a khasadar
...a rural policeman in Pakistain or India...
wad killed in a road accident at Torkham border.

Officials said that Mualim Khan, a resident of Loe Shalman, was critically injured in the accident and later pegged out in a local hospital.

In Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, unidentified persons hurled a hand grenade at a CNG station on Ring Road in the limits of Faqirabad cop shoppe on Thursday evening. A police official said that they did not have further details, however, the staff at the filling station remained unhurt in the attack.

Another source, quoting locals, said that two people riding a cycle of violence hurled the hand grenade at Mohmand
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
CNG pump and decamped away. He said that police cordoned off the entire area and started checking of suspected vehicles.

In Lakki Marwat district, a house was partially damaged when an bomb, planted outside it, went off in Essakkhel village on Wednesday night.

The residents of the area said that the family of Umar Khan, the owner of the house and an official of Pakistain Post, remained unhurt. The kaboom damaged rooms and boundary wall of the house. No one has so far grabbed credit for the blast.
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