Mohmand... 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 Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Bloody Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
Agency along with his son and a passerby here on Sunday.
Eyewitnesses said that Mohmand peace committee head Aatibar Gul and his seven-year-old son Irfanullah were going when two motorcyclists opened firing on them with Kalashnikov.
Besides Aatibar Gul and his son, a passerby identified as Mirza Khan was also killed in the incident. The assailants managed to escape after committing the crime.
Sources said that Aatibar Gul had shifted to Kota area of the district from his native tribal region after receiving threats from bad turbans.
Topi police registered an FIR on the complaint of Sher Baz Khan, a son of the dear departed, and started investigation.
In Nowshera, a government high school was blown up in Wattar area on Sunday night.
According to police, the building of government high school Wattar was damaged when explosive planted there went off. No loss of life was reported. The kaboom created fear in the surrounding localities.
The residents of the area said that three attackers came to the school on a cycle of violence and planted explosives at the building.
Police started a search operation in Wattar, Wale, Ziarat Kaka Sahib, Shna Wana , Hawi camp, Mesri Banda and Zara Mena areas and nabbed 21 suspected persons. Police also recovered there Kalashnikovs, three Kalakovs, 13 rifles, seven guns and 13 pistols from the nabbed suspects.