[Dawn] Two persons including a suspected cut-thoat were rubbed out while another was injured during a search operation in Akkakhel area of Bara on Tuesday, sources said.Although security forces declined to give details of the search operation conducted in Gud Malang and Misri chowk localities of Akkakhel, local sources said that the dead included a passer-by and an activist of a local cut-thoat group.
Sources said that the operation was conducted jointly by army and Frontier Corps. They said that security forces rounded up 150 residents of the area and shifted them to Fort Salop for investigation.
The officials of Bara political administration, when contacted, said that such operations had become a routine exercise in Bara with little or no results.
"They (security forces) never share such information and plans with the local administration and most of the time they act on their own," said an administrative official, who wished not to be named.
The forces also imposed curfew in most areas of Sipah including Alam Gudar and Dogra on Tuesday.
Spokesman for the security forces Maj Fazl, who was away from Bara, told Dawn on phone that he had no details of the search operation.
Local officials said that they had anticipated the Akkakhel operation soon after the killing of six coppers including SP Khurshid Khan in an attack by forces of Evil on Ghaziabad police post on the outskirts of 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.
It was generally believed that the attackers had come from Akkakhel and went back to the area after killing SP Khurshid Khan and other coppers.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for...
Commandant Khyber Rifles Col Fayaz on Tuesday handed over 35 Kukikhel
...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in awhile they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government...
and three Zakhakhel rustics, tossed in the slammer
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
during Ghundi operation, to a delegation of tribal elders.
The commandant also returned 24 light weapons, seized during the operation, to the tribal elders.
The meeting was arranged by the local political administration after the Kukikhel rustics expressed resentment over the Ghundi operation in which local elders were not taken into confidence.
In
Mohmand Agency... 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 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...
, Levies personnel and volunteers of Haleemzai Peace Committee demolished the houses of five suspected forces of Evil in Roadh Mandi area on Tuesday.The owners of the houses were identified as Saraf Khan, Zawo Jan, Zar Shah, Amir Shah and Akbar Shah.
Earlier, a jirga of Haleemzai tribe decided to demolish the houses of the suspected cut-thoats, who were allegedly involved in a kaboom in the area.
The participants of the jirga said a fine of Rs1 million would be imposed on those rustics, who provided shelter to cut-thoats.
Addressing the jirga, Haleemzai Peace Committee chief Malik Mohammad Ali said that they would extend full support to security forces and political administration to restore peace in the area.
In this connection, an agreement was also signed by the rustics, bounding them to stand united to fight against forces of Evil and protect their area.