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India-Pakistan
Seven security personnel injured in South Waziristan clash
2015-04-23
[Dawn] PESHAWAR: Seven security personnel were maimed during a clash in South Wazoo on Tuesday night.

According to a security official, snuffies attacked a checkpost in Ladha Tehsil's area of Ziarat as a result of which seven security personnel sustained injuries.

The attack was successfully repulsed after which krazed killer hide-outs were targeted with aerial strikes, security sources said.

In another incident last night, a group of snuffies from Afghanistan attacked the Nawa Pass security checkpost in Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
. The snuffies were successfully held off, however, two security personnel sustained injuries.

The semi-autonomous tribal areas on the Afghan border have for years been a hideout for Islamist snuffies of all stripes, including Al Qaeda and the Pak Taliban as well as imported muscle such as Uzbeks and Uighurs.

Pakistain began a long-awaited push to clear turban bases from North Waziristan last June after a bloody Taliban attack on Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
airport finally sank faltering peace talks.

People temporarily displaced from Waziristan and Khyber Agency have started returning home, and by July about 600,000 of them would be back in their areas in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).

Governor Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
Mehtab Ahmed Khan Abbasi had previously said that a proper plan for the rehabilitation of the displaced people had been made, which would also help improve relations between the state and the citizens.
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