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 Beautiful Downtown 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...
Agency from Afghanistan overnight, officials said.
They said that personnel of Khasadar Force and Frontier Corps, manning a checkpost in the Olay area, challenged the beturbanned goons when they were entering Baizai tehsil at about 8:15pm.
According to the officials the beturbanned goons had entered Olay from Nazarkhel area across the border and were proceeding towards Atam Kallay. The security forces targeted them with heavy weapons and started shelling from the nearby posts to force them to surrender, but they beat feet in the dark.
"At least three beturbanned goons were killed and four to five were maimed in the shelling by security forces," officials said.
They said that security forces accompanied by members of Atmarkhel Peace Committee visited the area in the morning and found stains of blood there. Security forces also recovered one hand grenade, two magazines and other things from the spot.
Meanwhile,
...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell...
political tehsildars Khalid Khan and Shamsul Islam inspected deployment of Levies and Khasadar personnel at checkposts, established in different areas of Haleemzai and Ekkaghund tehsils of the tribal region.
Also, one person was killed and eight others, including six women, were maimed when beturbanned goons fired mortar shells at Jawaki area of Frontier Region of Kohat on Monday.
Official sources said that beturbanned goons fired several mortar shells from the Tor Chappar mountain of Darra Adamkhel at the residential area of Jawaki. The mortar shells hit three houses in the area, they added.
They said that a man identified as Muneer was killed in the incident. The injured were identified as Asma Bibi, Fatima Bibi, Nausheen Bibi, Kiran Bibi, Sumera Bibi, Sakina, Aftab and Shafaat. They were shifted to combined military hospital in Kohat for treatment. It is important to mention here that eight alleged beturbanned goons were placed in durance vile on Sunday during a raid on an Afghan refugees camp, situated near the border between Kohat district and Shindhad tribal area.
Sources said that the placed in durance vile snuffies were involved in attacks on the vehicles of rustics, who were fleeing the area.
The mortar attack on the residential area coincided with the daylong visit of Inspector General of Police Akbar Khan Hoti to Kohat. The IGP urged people to cooperate with law enforcement agencies in curbing militancy in the region.
The residents of Jawaki area have been migrating to safer places for the last few months owing to rocket and mortar attacks on their houses by jihad boys.
In Swat, the local peace jirga has demanded arrest of reuniting terrorists, who had decamped the district after a military operation, to bring them to justice. The demand was made by chief of Nekpekhel Peace Committee Saifullah Khan during a presser in Mingora on Monday.
Flanked by Feroz Shah, Ibrahim Dewlai, Inamur Rehman and Zaheen Khan, he said that suspected snuffies released from prisons might be involved in attacks on volunteers of peace committee. Terrorists would not be allowed to disturb peace of Swat, he added.
Mr Khan termed attack on Karimul Hadi, general secretary of the committee, a cowardice act. "Such acts of snuffies will never plunge the high morale of the elders of the committee," he said. He said that peace in Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...was restored after great sacrifices of lives and properties. "We will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with army for maintenance of peace and elimination of last terrorist," he added.
Mr Khan said that snuffies were trying to regroup in Swat but people would foil their evil designs. He demanded of the government and security forces to arrest all terrorists, either hiding in Pakistain or in other countries, to bring them to justice.