 One man has been killed and four people arrested in a clash between soldiers and gunmen near a religious school in Pakistan's Afghan border region. Thursday night's incident took place in Dargai Mandi, just north of the main town in North Waziristan, Miran Shah. Police, acting on a tip-off about the presence of foreign militants, said they found explosives in the madrassa.
| Just the normal holy relics |
| "Hey! Give that back! It's a family heirloom! My grandaddy gimme that dynamite!" |
Pakistani security forces believe that hundreds of Taleban and al-Qaeda-linked militants are in the tribal region. A number of government and military targets have come under rocket attack in the past few days. Military spokesman Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan said a large amount of explosives had been found in the madrassa. "Children's toys fitted with explosives and booby traps were also recovered," he said.
| Part of their "TNT for Tots" program |
| Just little Islamic elves... |
Gen Sultan said one of the captured men was an Afghan and two others local tribesmen. Pakistan has about 70,000 troops in the tribal region tackling militants with suspected al-Qaeda and Taleban links. |