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India-Pakistan
Militant attack foiled, six killed in Upper Dir
2012-06-17
[Dawn] Security forces and a tribal lashkar repulsed a Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain attack on a checkpost in Upper Dir from Afghan province of Kunar, killing six attackers and injuring many, official sources said on Thursday night.

However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
TTP, Swat, denied that Death Eaters had suffered any casualty.

According to sources, the bully boys, who had taken shelter in Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
after the military operation in the Malakand division, attacked the Bin Darra checkpost in Brawal area with rockets and heavy weapons.

They said security forces and lashkar volunteers countered the attack and inflicted casualties on attackers.

This was the first attack in 2012 after the army's deployment in the border areas of Upper Dir.

In Kalaya area of upper Orakzai Agency
... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
, nine Death Eaters were killed and four injured after jetfighters attacked their hideouts on Friday.

Jetfighters targeted bully boy positions in Adokehl and Botakhel areas of Mamozai area, a stronghold of bully boys. Sources in
security forces said three bully boy hideouts were destroyed leaving nine Death Eaters dead and four injured. The injured were taken to a hospital in Mir Qalamkhel.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase...
security forces advanced towards Alijo and Dogar areas without resistance.

However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
the development forced a large number of Mamozai rustics into vacating their houses and leaving for safer places.

It is learnt that assistant political agent Rafiq 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...
has called an urgent meeting to make a strategy for registration and relief activities of displaced people.

In Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency, two children were killed in separate incidents on Friday.

Sources said two children were killed after they touched a landmine, which went kaboom! in the house of Juma Khel in Sheen Kamar-Zaodin area.

They said the house was recently vacated by bully boys, who had allegedly laid the landmine in the house.

Also in the day, two more children were critically injured when a stray mortar shell fell on the house of Lal Zamir in Gud Malang area of Akkakhel.

Local sources said mortar shells were fired by security forces against Death Eaters in the area.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase...
unidentified people attacked the Levies centre in Shah Kas area of Jamrud on Friday morning.

Local officials said myrmidons fled after retaliatory fire by the Levies present inside the centre.

They said an ambulance and a vehicle of the force were partially damaged due to the firing by myrmidons.

Local sources, however, said the centre was mistakenly targeted by security forces posted atop Besai hills overlooking the centre.

In Landi Kotal, local authorities on Friday demolished the houses of two alleged car lifters.

Local officials said the khasadar
...a rural policeman in Pakistain or India...
force on Thursday jugged
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
Shafiullah and Kaptan Khan and seized a stolen car. The two were later shifted to the Landi Kotal lockup.
Posted by:Fred

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