and 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.
on Friday.
Eight security personnel died and three others suffered injuries when snuffies attacked a convoy of security forces in Jamrud area of Khyber Agency on the night between Thursday and Friday.
Security officials claimed that four snuffies were kilÂled in the retaliatory fire. Three attackers were tossed in the clink
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Four snuffies dead, three held, say officials
The personnel of 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...
ScoÂuts were on a routine patrol in Ghundi's Malak Shaga area when they came under attack.
The officials said that an unspecified number of armed snuffies had shot up the security personnel riding in three vehicles which were also damaged.
Local people said that immediately after the attack the entire area reverberated with the sound of gunfire. Both sides used heavy and light weapons.
Security forces stationed at the Jamrud Fort used heavy artillery while those deployed at nearby hilltops fired shots at the direction of the site of the attack, causing fear among the residents.
"A team of Frontier Corps was moving to counter the snuffies on a tip-off, but they came under fire. At least eight security personnel and five snuffies were killed in an exchange of fire," AFP quoted an official as saying.
Another official said three snuffies were arrested while at least 10 beat feet from the scene.
According to Rooters, local residents said the gunfire began around midnight and continued for at least two hours. Security forces on Thursday morning claimed to have killed four snuffies and arrested three of their colleagues. The claim, however, could not be independently verified.
The soldiers who died in the Jamrud attack were identified as Naib Subedar Taj Maluk, Lance Naiks Nusrat Ali and Kashif and Sepoys Irfan, Hazrat Shah, Juma Khan, Siraj Khan and Mohammad Khan.
A curfew was imposed in Ghundi and nearby areas on Thursday morning and a house-to-house search operation was launched. Ten suspects were apprehended. The Jamrud bazaar remained open and traffic on the main Peshawar-Torkham road was also not suspended.
"The snuffies displaced from North
Wazoo have returned to Khyber Agency and started attacks on security forces," Rooters quoted a security official as saying.