| Bajaur Agency Taliban commander Faqir Muhammad on Thursday warned the Salarzai Tribe to stop co-operating with the government or face militant action, tribal sources said. The tribe has formed a lashkar (a private volunteer army), which set fire to 18 houses of local Taliban commanders in the agency's Salarzai tehsil in the past few days. The lashkar has warned anyone caught sheltering militants will be fined Rs 1 million and his house will be torched. Locals said militants had been expelled from the Kasai, Pusht, Chelagam, Danqun and Kotki areas, following the formation of the lashkar. |