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| Militant Attacks Kill Five in NW Pakistan |
| 2014-06-12 |
| [AnNahar] At least five people including three coppers were killed on Wednesday in two murderous Moslem festivities near Pakistain's 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... Valley, officials said. In the first incident, gunnies ambushed a car of local pro-government fighters in the Kooza Bandi village of Swat Valley, killing three people including a police guard, district police chief Sher Akbar told AFP. Nobody grabbed credit but Talibs have carried out such attacks in the past. Pro-government militias rose up in reaction to the Taliban's brutal rule of the Swat Valley between 2007-2009, when the gunnies grew unpopular for killing tribal elders, razing schools and kidnapping people for ransom. Separately, up to six gunnies stormed a checkpoint in the northwestern town of Dargai, that lies in the Malakand region neighboring Swat, killing two police, local officials said. "Two security force personnel embraced martyrdom in an attack at the checkpoint," Fayyaz Khan, a local government official told AFP. A Taliban insurgency in Swat began in 2007, with the gunnies taking de facto control for two years until an army operation was launched to reclaim the popular tourist destination. Pakistain has been battling a homegrown Islamist insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives for the past decade. |
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