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India-Pakistan
FC sees terrorists behind Bara killings, protest
2013-01-22
[Dawn] The Frontier Corps (FC) has claimed that snuffies killed five family members of a soldier, threw the bodies of gunnies on a road in Bara, Khyber Agency and orchestrated protest demonstration in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
to win public sympathies.

In a rejoinder issued here on Sunday, FC said that between the night of Monday and Tuesday a fairly large number of snuffies attacked law enforcement agencies' posts in Bara that resulted in the killing of four FC men and two khasadar
...a rural policeman in Pakistain or India...
s.

The rejoinder was issued five days after the incident wherein 18 persons were killed in Alamgodar area of Bara. The residents of the area claimed that the 18 non-combatants were killed by people in uniform. The incident sparked protests in Khyber Agency and Peshawar.

The FC said that snuffies also suffered heavy casualties in the attack. To avenge their deaths, the snuffies ransacked the house of an FC soldier and killed five of his family members, it claimed.

To stage a drama, the snuffies threw dead bodies including that of their colleagues in parts of Bara and also orchestrated a demonstration in Peshawar, the rejoinder claimed.

The issue, according to the rejoinder, was being exploited by vested interest groups. "The security forces take utmost care to protect lives and properties of people in Bara and other parts of Khyber Agency and shall never indulge in killing of innocent civilians in any case," it said.

The rejoinder said that the theme used by snuffies should be seen in true prospective. It said that local people should avoid falling into the trap of terrorists, who wanted security forces to leave Bara so that they could hold sway over violence in Peshawar and raise financial stakes through narco mafia, smugglers and abductors.

According to FC, Bara because of its proximity to the provincial metropolis had remained a safe haven for smugglers, adductors and drug pushers. The outlawed beturbanned goon outfits like Lashkar-e-Islam and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain had gained stranglehold of the area to maintain their finances and unleash terror in Peshawar, it said.

All the violent acts were initiated through thickly populated areas of Bara and the perpetrators sought refuge among the populace. To clear Bara of beturbanned goons, most of the areas were vacated through political administration and people were accommodated in Jalozai camps to avoid collateral damage, the rejoinder said.

It said that law enforcement agencies had engaged gunnies actively for the last few months to ensure security of Peshawar. Unfortunately snuffies used civilian population to engage security forces, it added.
Posted by:Fred

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