...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.
police have locked away
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
three persons for allegedly possessing and printing pamphlets supporting the self-styled Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
Police officials said on Thursday that the arrests were made from the Shamshatu Bazaar area in the limits of Urmur cop shoppe on the outskirts of the city. They said that two of those arrested were Afghan nationals and one belonged to
Mohmand Agency... 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 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...
According to the FIR, following a tip-off about printing of the pamphlets in Shamshtu Bazaar the police raided the shop and arrested three persons identified as Asmatullah, an Afghan currently residing in Shamshatu refugee camp; Abdur Rehman, another Afghan currently a resident of Naway Kallay, Bara Road; and Gul Khan of Mohmand Agency currently living near Budhni Pul, Charsadda Road, Peshawar.
The officials claimed to have recovered two laptops and two CPUs from the facility that contained pro-militant and anti-Pakistain material from the raided premises. Police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else under Section 124-A of Pakistain Panel Code and 11 ATA.
A senior police official requesting anonymity told Dawn that the arrests were made a day before by an intelligence agency. The Shamshatu refugee camp is located about 25 kilometres southeast of the quiet provincial capital.