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Shell kills woman, son in Mohmand
[Dawn] A woman and her 10-year-old son were killed when a mortar shell hit a house in Khawezai tehsil 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 Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... Agency on Wednesday. Locals said that the shell hit the house of Arabistan, killing his son on the spot and injuring his wife. The injured woman was shifted to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar where she succumbed to her wounds. Locals said that at least a dozen more mortar shells landed in a nearby village but caused no loss of life. The place from where the shells were fired could not be ascertained. In  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... , three persons including a minor were maimed when faceless myrmidons opened firing on a passenger coach near Tore Chapper village on Wednesday. The coach was going to Peshawar from Parachinar. The injured passengers were identified as Kamal Hussain, Mehtab Hussain and Nijat Hussain. They were shifted to Combined Military Hospital in Thall Garrison. Security forces condoned off the area soon after the attack and conducted a search operation. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... no arrest was made during the operation. In Khyber Agency  , three faceless myrmidons and a peace volunteer were killed and one was injured in a clash in Tirah valley on Wednesday.Sources said that Taliban of Tariq Afridi group ambushed a patrolling party of Kukikhel ...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in awhile they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government... peace volunteers in Dwa Thoe area, killing one of them and injuring another. The killed peace volunteer was identified as Naseer Afridi. The Kukikhel volunteers claimed that they killed three Taliban in retaliatory firing. A jirga of Kukikhel elders, held few weeks ago, had resolved to expel all faceless myrmidons from their area. The jirga had also decided to punish harbourers of bad boys. In Qambarkhel area of Bara, three armed motorcyclists rubbed out a member of the council of a banned bad boy group on Wednesday. Sources said that Kohat Khan, a shura member of Amr Bil Maroof Wa Nahi Anil Munkir, was coming out of a mosque after offering Fajr prayers when the assailants sprayed him with bullets. He was shifted to a hospital at death's door but could not survive. Posted by: Fred 2012-05-25 |
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