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India-Pakistan
Khyber residents given three-day deadline to surrender arms
2014-10-20
[DAWN] The political administration of Khyber tribal region has given a three-day deadline to hard boyz in the Jamrud and Bara areas to lay down their arms and surrender or face a full-fledged operation.

Pamphlets containing the message and deadline were dropped from helicopters into the Jamrud and Bara areas of Khyber tribal region.

The announcement effectively ended hopes of talks, which a tribal jirga had recommended to the government, a day earlier.

Most jirga members had wanted an immediate halt to the ongoing 'Operation Khyber 1' in the area and asked for a channel of negotiations should be opened with outlawed murderous Moslem groups of Bara.

Khyber agency's political agent Shahab Ali Shah, however, had rejected the jirga recommendations about holding talks with murderous Moslem groups and said the jirga was not convened to authorise elders to hold talks with anti-state elements.

"You are authorised only to talk to those who surrender to security forces and accept the writ of the government," he said.

The jirga ended inconclusively as tribal elders refused to shoulder the Collective Territorial Responsibilities during the ongoing military operation against hard boyz in their respective areas.

At least 30 suspects hard boyz have died during the ongoing operation which was launched on credible information about the presence of hard boyz in parts of Sipah and Akkakhel areas, according to Shahab Ali Shah.

Mangal Bagh
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency...
-led Lashkar-e-Islam
...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver....
has had a strong presence in the areas being targeted in the operation.

Anticipating a military operation in their areas in Tirah valley, hundreds of Akkakhel families had begun leaving their homes in Dars Jumaat, Shaddaly, Darota and Kulla areas of Akkakhel in Tirah valley.

The latest operation was launched amidst 'Zarb-e-Azb
..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)...
', a full-fledged military operation being conducted by the Pak military against Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) hard boyz in North Wazoo tribal region.
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