[Dawn] At least six people were killed and three others injured Saturday when a Pak Taliban jacket wallah targeted a local anti-Taliban militia chief in district Buner of northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province.
Fateh Khan, a local leader affiliated with the Awami National Party (ANP), was killed with three of his guards when a suicide bomber targeted his vehicle in Dagar area of Buner. The incident happened near Fateh Khan petrol pump, owned by the leader from Sultanwas village.
“The suicide bomber blown himself up in front of Fateh Khan’s vehicle. Three guards boarding the vehicle were also killed in the attack,” district police chief Jehanzeb Khan said.
Khan was one of the key local politicians and businessmen who had played a major role in setting up a Lashkar (militia) to stop the Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...Taliban from entering Buner before the thug cut-thoat group briefly seized power of the district in 2009. The cut-throats were eventually ousted from the district soon after a peace pact between the government and the Swat Taliban fell apart.
A local police official confirmed that six people had been killed in the blast.
“So far, we can confirm reports of six people being killed in the suicide kaboom. The bomber, who was riding a cycle of violence, targeted the vehicle of Fateh Khan,” said cop shoppe officer Noor Habib.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) front man Ehsanullah Ehsan, speaking to Dawn.com from
However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
the front man claimed the suicide bomber was sent on foot, contradicting police reports that the bomb exploded by a man on a cycle of violence.