[Dawn] Six Death Eaters and four civilians including women and kiddies were killed in Tirah valley in different incidents of violence on Sunday.Officials said that five activists of banned Death Eater organization Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) were killed when helicopter gunships targeted their hideouts in Nanagrosa and Naree Baba areas.
They said that security forces and volunteers of Zakhakhel tribe made advances in the area and seized Khazana bunker from LI.
Sources said that an important LI commander Meen Asghar was killed when a mortar shell hit a hideout of Death Eaters in Speen Drand area of Tirah.
Sources said that the commander was chief of LI kidnapping squad.
In the same area, two children and two women were killed when the house of Saifoor Khan was hit by a mortar shell.
At least eight persons, mostly children and women, had been killed during the last two days by mortar shells in the region.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard...
political administration locked away 21 members of Mangal tribe in
Kurram Agency...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
on Sunday after rocket attack on Piwar area, officials said.
Militants fired rockets on Piwar area near the Afghan border on Saturday night.
One of the rockets hit a residential compound but the inmates remained unhurt.
The administration locked away 21 rustics in Tangi area under the territorial responsibility clause of Frontier Crimes Regulation.
Officials said that rustics would remain in jug till the culprits were not handed over to the local authorities.