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India-Pakistan
Three IEDs defused in Peshawar
2015-08-19
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Police on Monday defused three improvised bombs in the limits of Mattani and Regi cop shoppes, sources said.

They said one of the IEDs weighed around 10 kilograms and could have caused extensive damage in case it were blown up.

A senior police official told Dawn that police recovered a 10 kilogram remote controlled device in the Regi area of the city in the limits of Nasir Bagh cop shoppe. He said the explosives were packed in the IED planted by the roadside.

The official said Bomb Disposal Unit safely defused the device, adding a convoy of the Frontier Corps
...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and anti-smuggling operations....
passing through the area was the possible target of the IED. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
an official at the Nasir Bagh cop shoppe expressed his ignorance about defusing of the IED.

The senior police official said two IEDs were recovered from the limits of Mattani cop shoppe. "Mortar shells were improvised in both IEDs," the official said, adding that both devices were safely defused.

Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him....
the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Monday claimed to have tossed in the slammer
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
a terrorist belonging to a banned outfit from the limits of Badbher cop shoppe.

A statement issued here said that the suspected terrorist identified as Amal Gul, resident of Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency, was involved in attacks on members of local peace committee in the area.

In one of the attacks back in 2007 criminal masterminded by the terrorist, two members of a local peace committee, Samar Gul and Malik Jan, were killed, while two others were maimed.

The statement said that the accused was shifted to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location for interrogation.
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