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India-Pakistan
Militants blow up power pylon in Bara
2012-10-08
[Dawn] The supply of electricity to Shalobar and adjoining areas was disrupted when gunnies blew up a power pylon at Naw Gazi Baba area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency on Friday evening.

Sources said that scores of armed gunnies riding in vehicles planted huge quantity of explosives at an electricity pylon at around 8:30 pm and detonated the same with a remote control device. Militants disappeared in the darkness after the kaboom, they added.

Security forces have established several checkposts in the area and a night curfew is imposed on regular basis to restrict the movement of myrmidons.

Sources said that forces reached the scene of kaboom and cordoned the area after half an hour. But by that time gunnies had already escaped and power supply remained suspended to most parts of Bara, they added.

In Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
, local administration jugged
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three suspected gunnies during a search operation in Barang tehsil on Saturday and recovered huge quantity of weapons.

Officials said that local rustics informed administration about the presence of gunnies at a house in the area. "A team of Levies and tribal elders take action against the myrmidons," Political Tehsildar Abdul Latif told Dawn.

He said that gunnies showed some resistance but later surrendered to a jirga of tribal elders of Barang tehsil.

The officials said that Levies personnel also recovered huge quantity of weapons from the house where the gunnies were hiding. The jugged
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
gunnies were shifted to Khar prison for interrogation.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
tribal elders of Barang tehsil have said that no one would be allowed to disturb law and orders situation in their area.

They told journalists that Barang was a peaceful area of the agency and people wanted maintenance of peace in their area.
Posted by:Fred

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