[Dawn] Unidentified persons rubbed out a member of a village defence committee in Matta area of Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
on Saturday night.
According to police, Akbar Ali, a resident of Dureshkhela area, was rubbed out by person or persons unknown outside his residence. He was a member of a local village defence committee.
Police said that the dear departed was going home late in the night after parking his car when the attackers targeted him. He was struck down in his prime.
In Kohat, two men were kidnapped at gunpoint near Ustarzai on Hangu Road on Sunday.
According to police, a driver and his helper were carrying goods in their truck to
Kurram Agency...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
when they were kidnapped. The kidnappers left the vehicle and took the two men to an unspecified place. Police were trying to ascertain names and whereabouts of the victims.
Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38...
the bodies of a man and woman were found in Kata Kanri area on Hangu Road on Sunday.
The Ustarzai police said that the dear departed were identified as Dilawar and his sister-in-law Payao Bibi. Police said that both had been shot in their heads with a pistol, however, reason behind the double murder couldn't be known.