on Wednesday, sources said.They said that the masked men tried to abduct Taliban capo Rafiq alias Akhlag in Maidan-Qambarkhel area but he was killed when he resisted them.
Rafiq, a key commander of Taliban in Tirah, was an aide to slain thug leader Adnan Afridi. Mr Afridi was murdered by unidentified gunnies in October 2010 in Rawalpindi.Sources said that Taliban top command had assigned Rafiq with responsibilities related to Khyber and Orakzai agencies.
Reason behind his killing could not be ascertained immediately as nobody grabbed credit for his murder.
Meanwhile,
...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end...
two more persons, critically injured in a car boom blast in Jamrud on Tuesday, died of their wounds in hospital on Wednesday. They were unidentified as Mohammadullah Zakhakhel and Khan Gul Kukikhel
...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in awhile they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government...
. They were laid to rest in their ancestral graveyards. The corpse count in the car blast reached 32while 25 out of the total 76 injured were still stated to be in unstable condition.
The Jamrud bazaar remained partially closed on Wednesday. A large number of locals and non-locals continued to visit the site of the blast. Nobody has so far grabbed credit for the terror act.
MNA Noorul Haq Qadri has strongly condemned the blast in a statement, saying perpetrator behind such acts are the enemies of humanity and can`t be called human beings.
He said that shedding the blood of inno-cent and poor human beings was neither a holy war nor a service to Islam. He said that he was deeply saddened by the loss of innocent lives.
The local chapter of Jamaat-e-Islami
...
The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
has also piously condemned the Jamrud blast and termed it a cowardly act.
In a statement, JI local chief Shah Faisal said that rustics were paying a heavy price for the government proAmerica policy. The government was chopping its own arms by carrying out military operations in tribal areas, he added.