[DAWN] DERA GHAZI KHAN: Nine suspected Lions of Islam linked to the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and four Rangers personnel were killed in a shootout that broke out during a search operation carried out by the Rangers and Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in Dadoani village, some 15km south of Dera Ghazi Khan, early on Friday.According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the shootout took place when personnel of the Rangers, intelligence agencies and CTD were carrying out a search operation against suspected gunnies associated with the TTP in the Dadoani village, which is located adjacent to Choti Zaireen -- seat of the chief of the Leghari tribe and ancestral area of the late former president Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari.
Law enforcement personnel cordoned off the area and used the loudspeaker of a local mosque to inform citizens that a search operation was being launched and urged any Lions of Islam to lay down their weapons in a peaceful manner.
A few villagers had come out of their homes and were being searched by the officials when all of a sudden some suspected gunnies shot up the coppers.
During the ensuing exchange of fire, nine suspected bad boyz were potted -- identified as Muhammad Asghar Dadoani alias Gorchani Ustad, Muhammad Naeem alias Waqas Dadoani, Naeem Dadoani, Yaqub, Usman, Mirza Khan, Ghulam Farid, Muhammad Usman and Sohail.
The three Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
Rangers personnel who bit the dust were Hawaldar Asif and two soldiers, Aftab and Azizullah. Two other soldiers suffered injuries and were airlifted to the Combined Military Hospital in Multan. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
a Rangers spokesperson said that Tanvir, one of the injured soldiers, had departed this vale of tears at the CMH, Multan. Abubakar, the other Rangers soldier, is being treated for injuries at the hospital.