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3 new checkposts set up in Miranshah
Three new checkposts were set up in North Waziristan’s regional headquarters to reinforce security, as non-local residents continued leaving the area fearing a likely military operation against local and foreign insurgents, local sources said on Friday. “One checkpost in east and two in the northwest of Miranshah were established to reinforce security around the town,” an official, asking not to be named, told Daily Times. Local residents said each checkpost was manned by a contingent of around 50 paramilitary and army soldiers.

The Taliban pulled out from the 2006 peace deal with the government on July 15 after the authorities redeployed the troops in the area. Security forces have banned the entry of vehicles to Miranshah bazaar and no traffic is allowed between Miranshah and Bannu.
  • Late on Thursday night, security forces returned fire after militants attacked a checkpost in the Speenwam area on Mir Ali-Thall Road. No casualties were reported.

  • Looting of public and government property continued in Miranshah despite a Taliban Shura decree that anyone seen with looted property should be shot even if he was disguised as a Taliban.

  • On Friday, masked people broke into a girls’ school and took away 30 computers and other valuables, school guard Muhammad Ayaz told Daily Times.

  • Separately, masked men stole two tractors and several urea bags from the Agriculture Department office. A cash-carrying vehicle escaped a remote-controlled blast in Lower Dir.

  • The bomb was planted at Ashari Ghat, some five kilometers from Timergrah on Chitarl Road, which has witnessed three blasts in the past two days.

  • On Thursday, police prisoner vans were targeted with two bombs that injured five policemen and three prisoners.

  • In Hangu district, the army blew up an old bunker near the Tull Cantonment area in order to prevent its possible misuse by the militants.

  • Separately, a landmine injured three persons in the Pevar Tagni area, some 25 kilometers North of Parachinar.

Posted by: Fred 2007-07-28
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