...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations....
(FC) personnel deployed on the Pak-Afghan border were martyred, while five were maimed in an attack from across the border, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Sunday.
The attack was carried out from the Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
of Afghanistan on a border post in Laka Tika area of Lower
Kurram Agency...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
, officials of the political administration in Kurram Agency said.
ISPR, the Army's media wing, said FC troops were fired upon from Afghanistan while they were busy in "routine surveillance along Pak-Afghan border for plugging of gaps and making necessary preparations for starting fencing in that area."
"Pak troops are exercising maximum restraint so as to avoid any Afghan civilian casualties," the statement said, adding: "Military engagement is underway to defuse [the] situation."
According to government officials, scores of armed rustics from Bangash and other tribes have started assembling to support the security personnel.
Tribal elders reportedly made announcements at several mosques in the nearby areas, appealing rustics to join the security personnel on the border. Following the announcements, several armed rustics, belonging to Toori Bangish and other tribes started approaching the border posts.
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