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Militants kills two for supplying livestock to Afghanistan
[Dawn] Talibs in Pakistain's troubled northwestern tribal belt Wednesday killed a truck driver and his helper for supplying livestock to Afghanistan, a bigwig told AFP.The attack took place in Baizai town of  Mohmand... 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 Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Bloody Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... tribal district, where Pakistain's military is engaged in anti-militant border operations, as the truck was returning from selling livestock in the east Afghan province of Nangarhar. The hard boyz signalled for the truck to stop before opening fire, said senior administration official Maqsood Hasan. "First they fired on the truck and killed both the driver and his helper. Then they destroyed the truck by setting it on fire," he said. "Talibs carried out the attack." The driver had violated a ban on supplies travelling by truck across the border to Afghanistan, imposed by hard boyz in the area, an intelligence official in Peshawar said. He said the Pak Taliban had previously imposed a tax on such trucks, but festivities over the penalty led to an outright ban. Militants in the region have previously launched regular attacks on NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... supply trucks and oil tankers to disrupt supplies for international troops fighting in Afghanistan. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-21 |
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