According to security officials, a soldier was killed when a vehicle hit an improvised bomb in Shabak area of
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...
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Claims about casualties could not be verified from independent sources.
A statement issued by the ISPR, the military's public relations wing, said warplanes and helicopter gunships continued strikes in Tirah valley for the fourth day, leaving 30 gunnies dead.
An official said the banned Lashkar-e-Islam
...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver....
's sanctuaries in Nangrosa, Sandana, Khyber Sangar, Speen Drand, Seekh Kot, Sur Kas, Tor Darra and Takhtaki areas were attacked and at least seven hideouts, including two ammunition depots, were destroyed.
Troops advanced into Sipah and Kukikhel
...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in awhile they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government...
areas, considered to be strongholds of the LI and the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain's Tariq Afridi group.
Heavy artillery shelling was carried out to dislodge myrmidons.
According to reports, troops took control of Takhtaki heights after a fierce battle with LI men who had been holding the area for almost one and a half years.
Security forces have dislodged LI activists from Maza Thal and Khyber Sangar ridges, getting an upper hand over gunnies as the places along with Takhtaki overlook most of the Kukikhel, Sipah and Kamar Khel areas where both the LI and TTP have sanctuaries.
In Akkakhel area of Bara, security personnel along with Khasadars demolished the houses of three LI activists wanted in several incidents of sabotage.
Suspected myrmidon positions in Shabak area of Lower Kurram tehsil were pounded with heavy artillery. Officials said that 16 suspected bad boyz were potted and several others injured. The area adjoining North
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Wazoo is along Afghanistan's Khost province... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
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Soldier Hilal Mohmand was killed in a roadside kaboom in Shabak. He was in a vehicle on way to bring water from a channel when it was blown up.