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Twelve killed in Pakistan tribal attack
At least 12 people were killed and 15 others injured when armed men in southern Pakistan attacked a village of rival tribe on Monday, Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said. Hayat told a news conference in Islamabad that the attackers, wearing uniform of paramilitary rangers, attacked the rival tribe in Kashmor area in Sindh province. Fighting between Bugti and Mazari primitives tribes has been raging for decades in an area where the borders of the Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan province meet. Reports from the area suggest that eight people were kidnapped in the attack on Kashmor by some 35 men armed with automatic weapons, including rockets. Saleh Hayat said that the para-military force and police have been put on alert to maintain peace as retaliation from the rival is imminent. According to reports the armed men attacked the house of a Mazari tribe leader Ghulam Hussain Mazari and later targeted other members of the Mazari tribe. Local correspondents say that the tribes have a decades long feud and incidents of violence take place time to time under different excuses.
"Hey, Mahmoud! Wanna go pot some Mazaris?"
"I dunno. Do we have an excuse?"
"It's Monday."
"I'll get my gun!"
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-03-31 |
