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...
on Monday night, sources said.
"The body of FC man Taj Alam Khattak was found near Sheikhan police post," sources said, adding that he went missing on Monday when he was on way to his post in Aziz Market area.
An official said that the FC man, a resident of Mian Wali, had been on leave since July 2. He was supposed to join his duty on 18 but he could not reach his post as cut-throats kidnapped him in the limits of Badbher cop shoppe, he added.
"On Tuesday morning someone informed police about presence of a body. Police reached the area and recognised the dear departed as Taj Alam," the official said. He added that the FC was slaughtered by his kidnappers.
"The area is close to Khyber Agency
and involvement of cut-thoat group Lashkar-i-Islam cannot be ruled out," the official said.Meanwhile,
...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end...
cut-throats killed two hostages, including a student, in Charkhel area of lower Kurram Agency. They were kidnapped two days ago after an attack on a convoy of trucks coming from Parachinar to Thall.
The kidnappers burnt the body of the student identified as Syed Ijlal Hussain while the other hostage, Zakir Hussain, was sprayed with bullets.
They were laid to rest at their ancestral graveyards in Parachinar on Tuesday.
Syed Ijlal, who was going to Peshawar to get admission at a technical institute, was the lone son of Habib Hussain.
Militants had burnt six trucks and kidnapped 12 people including drivers during the attack. They set free 10 drivers after interrogation and kept the two deceased in their custody.
After the incident, president of Kurram chapter of Pakistain People`s Party Dr Syed Riaz Hussain demanded of the government to launch helicopter service for the residents of the region. Addressing a presser, he said that local population was suffering owing to closure of Thall-Parachinar Road, therefore, government should launch regular chopper service between Peshawar and Parachinar.
Meanwhile,
...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end...
a primitive identified as Noor Hussain suffered injuries in a landmine blast in Sharemkhel area in upper Kurram on Tuesday. He was shifted to agency headquarters hospital in Parachinar for treatment.
In Akkakhel area of Khyber Agency, the activists of a local peace committee killed the relative of a local cut-thoat commander on charges of spying.
Sources said that Salim Khan was picked up by members of peace committee when he was standing in front of his house. He was later rubbed out allegedly for passing information to local cut-throats against whom the peace committee had been raised, they added.
Also, in Akkakhel area unidentified gunnies fired at a helicopter, which was returning from
Orakzai Agency... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
on Monday night. The helicopter also returned fire and targeted cut-thoat hideouts.
In Landi Kotal, nine youngsters were maimed when cut-throats fired six mortar shells at the local helipad on Tuesday.
Zahid Khan, an eyewitness, told Dawn that scores of local youth were playing cricket near the helipad when mortars were fired from nearby hilltops.
Local sources said that one of the mortar shells hit the house of a holy man, Mufti Ijaz, near the army camp while another fell in a government school.