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 Wednesday, sources said.
They said that four other hard boyz and six rustics were also injured in the festivities. Clashes erupted between rustics and a group of hard boyz in Neka Ziarat area of Kurram where security forces launched an operation, they added.
Sources said that both sides used heavy weapons during the festivities, resulting in killing of six Islamic exemplars. The injured rustics were shifted to a hospital in Sadda. Two of them were stated to be at death's door.
In Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, two attackers were killed and a law enforcer was injured when hard boyz attacked a police post in Matani area early Wednesday. A police source said that a group of hard boyz attacked the police post at about 12:30am. A police van was destroyed when it was hit by rockets but the attack was successfully repulsed, he added. He said that hard boyz also blew up a government school in Sheikhan village in the limits of Badbher cop shoppe. The source said that three remote controlled explosives were planted at the school that damaged its building.
Police front man Jalal Shah said that two hard boyz were killed in the attack on police post. Militants took the body of one of the attackers with them, he said. He added that body of the other killed Islamic exemplar was left behind by the fleeing attackers.
Police also recovered a rocket, three hand grenades, a wireless set and hundreds of cartridges of Kalashnikov from the spot, he said. The injured policeman was shifted to Lady Reading Hospital where his condition was stated to be stable.
The body of the Islamic exemplar was shifted to a local mortuary. The official said that no one had so far contacted them to take possession of the body. Sources said that hard boyz had blown up the residence of a peace body member, Khan Wazir, at Kohat Road by targeting it with rockets on Monday night. In Frontier Region of Kohat, hard boyz fired rockets at a security checkpost in Jammu area, sources said.
They said that the rockets caused no damage to the checkpost as they landed in open filed. The rockets were fired from the mountains of Darra Adamkhel, they added. Security forces retaliated by targeting the hideouts of hard boyz with artillery and machineguns. The Islamic exemplars, who had been flushed out from the main bazaar and other parts of the Darra Adamkhel, have been attacking villages in FR Kohat for the last two years.
"The local rustics have formed an armed lashkar, which patrols the villages but hard boyz manage to sneak into the area from other unfrequented routes," sources said.