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...
, where, officials say, security forces are gearing up for action against Death Eaters.
An official source in Fata Secretariat told Dawn on Wednesday that the office of the Fata secretary (law and order) had notified 29 villages of Parachamkani as a conflict zone on May 13 and that notification had been issued to all authorities concerned.Administratively Parachamkani is located in central subdivision of Kurram Agency, where the army and paramilitary forces backed by Pakistain Air Force had launched a coordinated operation against local and foreign Death Eaters.
Parts of central Kurram have been cleared from Death Eaters.
Parachamkani situated across Tora Bora, which witnessed relentless bombing in 2001, is the tail end of the mountainous central subdivision from eastern side adjacent to upper subdivision. The area has very rugged and tough terrain.
Trouble began in Parachamkani area when bomb went
kaboom!in election rally of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability...
-Fazl candidate from NA-38, Muneer Khan Orakzai in Sewak village on May 5. The blast killed 26 people and injured dozens.
Election has been postponed in the area. Security forces bomb suspected locations triggering mass displacement.
Residents said the security forces' convoys had entered the area and strategic hilltops in Spin Ghar (white mountain).
According to the notification, the area has been declared a conflict zone and local authorities have directed residents to vacate houses. Heavy deployment of army and paramilitary forces is underway in the area.