Sources said that gunnies stopped a passenger coach going to
Orakzai Agency... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
and forced the commuters to get off the vehicle. They rubbed out a passenger and injured three others, they added.
The injured were shifted to a local hospital in Ustarzai village. The Ustarzai police, when contacted, said that things were not clear yet and they were investigating the incident to register a case.
Sources said that the passenger coach bearing registration number 1085-Beautiful Downtown Peshawar was carrying commuters from Hangu via Kohat to Tirah in lower Orakzai Agency when two motorcyclists intercepted it and forced the passengers to disembark from the vehicle for identification.
"There were also families in the vehicle. One of the passengers exchanged hot words with the masked men, who shot up them," they added. Arsala Khan, a resident of Orakzai Agency, was killed while Sakhiullah, his seven-year-old daughter Ayesha and Said Khan were maimed in the firing. All the victims belong to Mishti Mela tribe of Orakzai Agency.
The child was referred to KDA headquarter hospital from Ustarzai hospital.
Sources said that the attackers disappeared on their cycle of violence after committing the crime into the nearby mountainous area, infested with thick jungles. The Marai village is situated near the border of the troubled Orakzai Agency where security forces had launched operation against cut-throats in March 2010.
Officials claimed that the lower part of the tribal region was safe as it was cleared of cut-throats in September last with the help of rustics.
However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
local sources said that cut-throats were still present in some areas.
Militants were still attacking convoys of security forces and passenger coaches on Hangu-Parachinar Highway and in tribal area, they said.