|
4 injured in Bajaur IED blast
[DAWN] At least four people were maimed in an improvised bomb blast targeting tehsildar car in the Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...'s Charmang area on Monday. Tehsildar Haseeb Khan and three Levies personnel were maimed in the blast, DawnNewsTV reported. Earlier this year, in February, security forces foiled a terrorism bid in the agency by killing two suspected jacket wallahs during an intelligence-based operation near the Pakistain-Afghan border. In September 2017, local tehsildar Fawad Ali and four Levies personnel were killed when a remote-controlled bomb went off a roadside the agency's Loye Mamond area. Posted by: Fred 2018-10-30 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=526509 |