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Gunmen kill two anti-Taliban elders in Swat
Gunmen rubbed out two members of an anti-Taliban peace committee in Pakistain’s northwestern Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
valley, where cut-throats tried to murder schoolgirl activist Malala Yousufzai, police said Friday.

The shooting will heighten fears of a campaign of assassinations in Swat, as in the last four months, two businessmen and outspoken anti-militant campaigners have been rubbed out and two others maimed.

The latest incident took place in the Charbagh area, a former myrmidon stronghold some 10 kilometres north of Mingora, the main town of Swat valley, where Taliban shot 15-year-old Malala in the head for promoting the right of girls to go to school.

Police said gunnies opened fire on Tajim Gul late Thursday, in front of a mosque while Sardar Mohammad was bumped off at his home.

“In both incidents the attackers managed to flee. We have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the unknown attackers,” Liaqat Ali, an official in Charbagh cop shoppe told AFP. Daidar Ghani, another police official, confirmed the incident.

Mohammad’s five-year-old son was injured in the shooting.

Residents said both victims were members of local peace committee and they blamed Taliban for the killing.

All four victims before Malala were senior members of an anti-militancy group.

Malala, who won international recognition for a blog about the horrors of life under the Taliban and a campaign for the right to an education, is the highest-profile target of cut-throats in Swat for more than three years.

The army declared Swat, once known as the “Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
of Pakistain”, back under control in July 2009, after defeating radical holy man Mullah Fazlullah
...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullahs Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan...
and his Taliban fighters who waged a two-year campaign of terror in the district.

The operation was arguably Pakistain’s most successful offensive to date against the homegrown bully boyz who have bombed and killed thousands across the country for the last five years.

Posted by: Fred 2012-10-27
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