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| Terrorists in army uniform storm police station in Diamer |
| 2014-07-06 |
| [DAWN] GILGIT: Over three dozen suspected turbans wearing Mighty Pak Army uniform stormed a cop shoppe in Diamer district on Friday morning, tied the coppers with ropes and took away weapons, uniform, wireless sets, and other valuables from the cops. The Dodishal cop shoppe is situated a kilometer from the Karakuram Highway at the border of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and Gilgit-Baltistan regions. Police sources told Dawn that 36 to 40 unidentified gunnies wearing army uniform stormed the cop shoppe at about 1:30am on Friday. The sources said that only six police personnel were present at duty when the cop shoppe was attacked, adding that the assailants tied the personnel with ropes and thrashed some over resistance. The attackers took away 10 guns, three pistols, thousands of rounds, wireless telephone sets, police uniforms and other belongings of the police personnel. The sources said that the attackers were speaking Urdu, Pashto and Shina languages and also accused the coppers of being the puppets of America. They said that other cop shoppes of Diamer district were informed after three hours of the incident. GB home secretary, Attaul Rahman, told Dawn that additional police force had been sent to Diamer district from Gilgit for catching the culprits and investigating the incident. He said that Inspector General of Police, Saleem Bathi, was leading a search operation in Diamer district and adjoining areas to nab the outlaws. Dawn tried to contact the police officials at the scene, but to no avail as the area is remote and has no communication facilities. The region's home secretary informed that GB had requested the KP government and the security forces to help arrest the terrorists. Security at the Karakuram Highway has also been enhanced to provide protection to the travelers, he said. Mr Rehman said that all the information would be made public once the investigation into the case completed. This is the fourth attack to have been carried out by turbans wearing Pakistain army uniform. In February, 18 passengers belonging to Shia sect, who were travelling on KKH from Rawalpindi to Gilgit, were bumped off in Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. In a similar incident in August 2012, 19 Shia community members were bumped off at Lalusar near of Babusar Top while going to Rawalpindi from Gilgit. In June 2013, 10 foreign tourists, including one Pak guide, were killed at Nanga Parbat base camp in Diamer district. The GB home secretary said that it seemed that the same group was involved in the latest incident. A case against unknown attackers was registered at the Dodishal cop shoppe. |
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