...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...'s Salarzai tehsil on Tuesday.
The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) grabbed credit for the attack.
Speaking to Dawn, TTP front man Muhammad Khurrsani said that the Taliban had targeted Shaibzada in Bajaur Agency's Salarzai tehsil by planting an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
Levies personnel were on polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
security patrol when the IED blast took place. As a result of the kaboom, the vehicle was completely destroyed. Three Levies personnel were killed and as many others sustained injuries.
Bajaur, a tribal region in Pakistain's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), is governed by tribal laws.
An holy warrior insurgency led by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) plagues the region and the area is known to be infested with bad boys, including those from Al Qaeda and other armed holy warrior organizations.
In October 2014, a bad boy outfit distributed pamphlets in Bajaur's tehsil Khar area warning polio workers against participating in the "anti-Islamic" polio vaccination drive, and vowing to attack all those participating in it.
The Pashto language pamphlet pasted on walls in various parts of Haji Lawang and Moslem Bagh area of Khar says that those supporting the polio drive or participating in vaccination would be targeted.