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India-Pakistan
TTP claims responsibility of attack on police check post in Matni
2012-10-16
[Dawn] Banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) on Monday grabbed credit of attacking a police check post set up on the main Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
-Kohat Road in the Matni area on the outskirts of Peshawar, killing seven FC and police personnel.

Superintendent of Police (Rural) Khurshid Khan and six others, including police and Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel, were killed whereas 12 others were maimed when more than 300 gunnies attacked the check post.

Speaking over the telephone to this correspondent from Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location, TTP front man Ehsanullah Ehsan accepted the responsibility of the attack and said they beheaded SP Khan and two FC officials during the fight and had taken away heads of all three security officials with them.

"We have also taken away two night vision goggles, 15 Kalashnikovs, two rocket launchers, three mobile jammers, 30 rounds of magazines and three heavy machine guns from the check post," said Ehsan. Two TTP fighters sustained injuries during the fight, he added.

According to police sources, the heavily armed gunnies attacked the check post, resulting in a three hour shootout.

Those killed included three coppers and four FC personnel. Sources said the gunnies had beheaded SP Khan on the spot.

The 12 injured included FC and police personnel who were shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital for treatment.

Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship.
announced the Sitara-e-Jurat award for the slain SP in recognition of his bravery.

The gunnies ransacked the check post and set it on fire, reducing police equipment and weapons in the office to ashes. At least four vehicles and three cycle of violences were also destroyed in the attack.

Police sources said the gunnies fled after the attack and there were no cut-thoat casualty figures available as yet whereas a number of security personnel were missing.

Funeral prayers of SP (rural) Khan and the other slain officials were offered later today.

Chief Minister Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, KP Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain and a large number of coppers were among those attending the prayers.

Speaking to media representatives after the prayers, Chief Minister Hoti said that cut-throats wanted to deteriorate Peshawar's security situation.

Moreover, the provincial information minister said that the KP government would soon launch an operation against the terrorists.
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