"Security forces foiled an attempt to disrupt peace in the Swat valley when they killed 11 hard boyz overnight," a military front man said.
The front man said the fighters had decamped from
Mohmand,... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot for the most part. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Bloody Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
a nearby tribal district where Pakistain is waging its latest air and ground offensive against homegrown Taliban blamed for near daily kabooms in the northwest.
"These people decamped the Mohmand operation and wanted to commit acts of terrorism in the valley," said the front man.
Pakistain declared Swat under control in the summer of 2009 after a major air and ground offensive to evict bad turbans.
For two years the Taliban paralysed much of the district by promoting a repressive brand of religious law, opposing secular girls' education and beheading opponents, until the government ordered in thousands of troops.
Since then, sporadic attacks, shootings and bad turban operations have suggested lingering insecurity in a region, just 125 kilometres (80 miles) northwest of the capital Islamabad.
Separately, police in the town of Mardan said they had picked up five bodies from a field one day after a teenage jacket wallah dressed in school uniform killed 31 army recruits at a parade ground outside the town.
A chit was attached to each body, listing the name and hometown of the dear departed, and one scrap of paper said "long live Taliban Pakistain," said local police officer Samad Khan.
The men came from Rawalpindi, the garrison city that is the headquarters of the Pakistain military, as well as from the towns of Charsadda and Swabi, he said.
They were aged 20 to 45 and had all been rubbed out, he added.
The northwest has been a flashpoint since Taliban and Al-Qaeda gunnies sought refuge after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, later giving rise to a homegrown insurgency against Pak security forces.