...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...has ordered people living in border areas of Mamond tehsil to evacuate their homes by Tuesday morning because of the possibility of a military operation in the region.
Local people told Dawn on Monday that the administration had asked residents of five border villages of Mamond to leave the area.
The order was announced through mosque loudspeakers by Levies personnel, a resident Dilwar Khan said.
Confirming the decision, an official told media personnel that people in Nakhatar, Ghakhai, Mula Killi, Gohati and Kitkoot of Mamond had been asked to leave their houses in view of the possibility of a military operation.
He said the decision was taken at a meeting of security bigshots and local administration. Security forces believed that elements responsible for the recent cross-border attacks were hiding in the area.
Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings...
a delegation of an alliance of Bajaur's political parties held a meeting with the political agent and expressed concern
...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended...
over the decision and urged him to withdraw it.