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...
where the military is waging an anti-Taliban offensive, a Pak official said.
Javedullah said four of the snuffies were killed Monday in the tribal region.
The United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
said tens of thousands of civilians have decamped the area to avoid the conflict.
Javedullah said one soldier had been killed and 10 had been maimed over the past month in Kurram. He said the fighting had slowed since the start of the month of Ramazan.
Access to Kurram is restricted and the reports are difficult to independently verify.
Pakistain's army has been fighting snuffies in the tribal belt for years, with limited success.