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| Seven Dead as Pakistan Hits Militant Hideouts |
| 2014-12-21 |
| [AnNahar] Seven people including a policeman and paramilitary soldier were killed in two separate incidents when Pak security forces hit hard boy hideouts in the restive northwest Saturday morning, officials said. In the first incident, police and paramilitary soldiers raided suspected hideouts in Shabqadar, a town around 30 kilometres (18 miles) north of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. "A soldier of the Frontier Corps and a policeman embraced martyrdom in an exchange of fire with snuffies in Mechani neighbourhood of Shabqadar Saturday morning," local police official Wilayat Khan told Agence La Belle France Presse. He said two snuffies belonging to Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), the hard boy organization that carried out Tuesday's massacre at a military-run school in Peshawar -- the deadliest ever attack in Pakistain -- were also killed. Rasheed Khan, another bigwig confirmed the incident. He said the snuffies opened fire when the police and paramilitary troops raided their hideouts. Spokesman of the Jamatul Ahrar faction of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, Ehsanullah Ehsan ...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency... , grabbed credit for the attack. "We will continue to target security forces and the police in the future too," he told AFP in a telephone call from In another incident, five members of the TTP including a local commander were killed. "Five members of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) were killed in a raid on their hideout in Gujjar Gadi neighbourhood of Matni, around 16 miles south of Peshawar," a security bigshot told AFP. The incident was confirmed by other local intelligence sources. The army has been waging a major offensive against longstanding Taliban and other hard boy strongholds in the restive tribal areas on the Afghan border for the last six months. But a series of fresh strikes after Tuesday's Peshawar attack, which left 149 people dead -- most of them children, suggest the military is stepping up its campaign. As the Peshawar tragedy unfolded, army chief General Raheel Sharif said the attack had renewed the forces' determination to push for the hard boys' "final elimination". |
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