[Dawn] The Pakistain Army has established checkposts along Pak-Afghan border in Dir to prevent intrusion by the Orcs and similar vermin into the country and it has completed the search operation in Barawal tehsil and adjacent areas, Operation Commander Dir Brigadier Saqib Rashid said on Friday.Talking to APP, Brig Saqib Rashid said 172 people, including security personnel, had died and 478 maimed during incidents of insurgency while 70 bad boyz were potted and hundreds of suspected persons were locked away during the operation. Heavy weapons were also seized by the forces he said and added that Barawal Tehsil had been cleared of jihad boys.
Terrorists, he said, had damaged about 200 schools and set many mosques ablaze in the area.
He regretted that the forces of Evil had even burnt 840 copies of the Holy Koran.
Oh, noze! Not 840 copies of the Holy Koran!
| But burning the Koran is one of the accepted ways of disposing of old copies, along with burial and, if I recall correctly, throwing in a river. Given the paucity of Pakistani funding for education, the odds are high all the textbooks were distinctly on the geriatric side. |
He said that 10 units of Pakistain Army were deployed in Barawal Tehsil while security arrangements along the border with Afghanistan had been further strengthened.
He said that the army had started rehabilitation activities in the area. Work on seven schools and many mosques was near completion. Likewise, Pakistain Army was also busy in rehabilitation of roads, infrastructure and other recreational places.
Brig Saqib further said the provincial government had been consulted on the rehabilitation and development work, which would soon start its part of development work.
He said the elders of local Lashkars had pledged to purge the anti-state elements out of their areas and were standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Pakistain Army.