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India-Pakistan
Two peace volunteers killed in Mohmand
2012-04-30
[Dawn] Two members of a peace committee were killed in a roadside blast in Mohmand
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
tribal region on Saturday.

Sources said that Inyatullah and Jehanzeb alias Peer were travelling on a cycle of violence to attend a jirga when they met the fatal incident in Pandiali tehsil of Mohmand Agency.

Both the dear departed were members of Dawezai Peace Committee. Sources said that an improvised bomb, planted by suspected forces of Evil along the roadside, went kaboom! when the volunteers reached there. The bodies of the peace committee's volunteers were shifted to their native village.

According to APP, a woman was critically injured when an improvised bomb planted by unidentified persons in a field in Boshera Hamime, Parachinar, went off, political authorities said on Saturday.

They said that the wife of Haji Bab was going to the nearby field when a bomb planted in the field went kaboom!. Soon after the blast, people rushed to the site and shifted the injured woman to a hospital in Parachinar.

A doctor at the hospital said that the woman lost both her legs in the kaboom. She was referred to Peshawar for treatment.
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