Officials said the dead were six Lashkar-i-Islam fighters, while the maimed included six fighters of the cut-thoat outfit and six Zakhakhel force volunteers.
They said Lashkar-i-Islam fighters attacked the Shankhel base of Zakhakhel force near Nari Baba area but the attack was repulsed after prolonged exchange of fire.
Officials said the two groups had many bloody festivities over the last many days for the control of key hilltops in the area.
Also in the day, the head of a peace committee remained safe in a blast targeting him in Sangar Khwar area of
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 Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
Agency on Friday.
An bomb planted near the house of Malik Mohammad Ali Haleemzai went off without causing any damage to the head of the peace committee.
The levies and khasadar
...a rural policeman in Pakistain or India...
personnel cordoned off the area and began an operation to hunt the perpetrators of the blast. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
no arrest could be made until late night.
Mr Haleemzai told Dawn that he and his guards were safe and that he was inside the house when the bomb went off.
He said he was the apparent target of the blast as he used the passage, where the bomb was planted, to go to the
regional headquarters of Ghalanai in car.
Local political administration started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified myrmidons and began investigation.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow...
a khasadar pegged out at Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital on Friday.
Taj Mohammad, a resident of Gul Bar Shah Korona Ekkaghound, was doing his duty on a bridge near Ekkaghound on the main Peshawar-Bajaur highway when a speeding coach hit him. With critical maimed, he was shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital, where he died.
In a similar incident in Charsadda district's Ibrahimzai area, a government girls' school was blown up by bully boyz early on Friday.
Police and locals said myrmidons planted an improvised bomb inside the building of a government school for girls in Ibrahimzai area near Sradheri and that went off in the small hours of Friday.
They said the blast damaged the school's boundary wall, rooms, furniture and documents.