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India-Pakistan |
Bajaur sealed as protests continue |
2006-11-02 |
KHAR: Hundreds of troops completely sealed off Bajaur Agency and part of Mohmand Agency on Wednesday as protests against air strikes on a local madrassa on Monday continued for a third day here. “No-one is allowed into Bajaur. We are searching vehicles at all entry routes for suspected people and most notably journalists,” a security official told Daily Times. Markets and schools in Khar also remained closed for a third day. Protestors in Mohammad Ghot attacked a grid station and an under-construction security check-post and burnt down tents of tribal police at makeshift roadside posts, eyewitnesses said. Around 4,000 protestors participated in a demonstration in the same area led by Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, while there were also demonstrations in Khar, where speakers called for President Gen Pervez Muhsarraf’s resignation. |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 sarc - mostly true - mostly. |
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-11-02 08:12 |
#1 Maybe Musharraf could study how the US Bureau of Indian Affairs (& predecessors) managed the American 'tribal areas' back in the 1800's? Andrew Jackson & the Tenn. Cherokee? Chief Joseph? A few slip-ups like Little Big Horn, but overall, no troubles out of the reservations in over a century. (sarc - mostly) |
Posted by: Glenmore 2006-11-02 08:04 |