on Saturday.Sources said that a jirga of Kamarkhel tribe was in progress in Takhtaki village when an bomb concealed in a sack went
kaboom!. Tribal elder Rasheed Khan, who was also head of a local peace committee, was killed while his younger brother was critically maimed in the blast, they added.
No group has so far grabbed credit for the kaboom. The Kamarkhel tribe has maintained its neutrality in its area since long as it has not allowed so far any Death Eater group to either take shelter or establish hideouts in Takhtaki.
Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ...
members of banned Death Eater organization Lashkar-e-Islam torched at least three houses of Zakhakhel elders and two shops in Matray area of Bazaar Zakhakhel. The inmates of the affected houses had left the area since long owing to armed festivities between Lashkar-e-Islam and its opponents.
Also, unidentified persons dynamited the house of Meena Baz, a tribal elder, in Bango village in Zaodin area. Nobody was hurt in the kaboom as the house was empty.
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...
, one person was injured in a landmine kaboom in Balishkhel village on Saturday.
The residents of the area said that Younas Ali was walking in fields when he stepped on an anti-personnel mine. The landmine went
kaboom!and injured him seriously, they added. The injured primitive was rushed to agency headquarters hospital in Parachinar. They said that the victim lost his right leg in the blast. -- Dawn