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Dreaded LI chief `on the run`
[Dawn]  The chief of Bara-based hard boy organisation Lashkar-i-Islam, Mangal Bagh,...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... has decamped to Afghanistan from Khyber Agency, claim his opponents. They have also demanded of the government to ask Afghan government to extradite him. "Mangal Bagh has contacts with anti-Pakistain elements in Afghanistan. He has presently taken refuge with Haji Amin Shah in Naziyan area of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan after fleeing Tirah valley of Khyber Agency," Haji Akhunzada Qamarkhel, a leader of Ansaarul Islam, told a presser on Sunday. However, The flatulent However... security officials and political administration expressed ignorance about the authenticity of the claim made by Ansaarul Islam, the rival group of Lashkar-i-Islam. An official of the political administration, who did not want to be named, told Dawn that they had also heard the news from certain quarters, but so far they could not verify it. Similarly, a security official, when contacted, said that it was the job of intelligence agencies to verify the news. "So far we have not received any information from the intelligence agencies in this regard," he added. He said that within a day or two they would be in better position to confirm where Mangal Bagh was hiding.  Mr Qamarkhel urged security forces to launch a full-fledged military operation against hideouts and bases of Mangal Bagh in Sipah and Akkakhel areas of Tirah as according to him his network could only be dismantled if all his bases were destroyed.He appealed to the security forces to secure safe release of hundreds of kidnapped persons, being kept at the private jails of LI in Sipah and Akkakhel bases. Speaking on the occasion, Ansaarul Islam front man Qari Mehbub said that his organisation extended full support to Zakhakhel tribal lashkar against Mangal Bagh. He hoped that they would soon take control of LI bases in the entire Tirah valley. "Mangal Bagh and his band of armed activists have unleashed a reign of terror in the name of religion to victimise their opponents. Hundreds of innocent men have been killed and many others kidnapped for ransom by LI during the last six years of atrocities in Bara," he alleged. Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... sources said that fresh festivities erupted between the Zakhakhel lashkar and members of LI in Mangalbagh Kandao and Khera Mela areas of Khyber Agency. These villages are situated near the boundary between the Zakhakehl and Sipah tribes. However, The well-oiled However... the number of casualties in the festivities could not be confirmed. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-19 |
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