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...
near Afghan border on Monday while Islamic fascisti hiding in Afghanistan again attacked positions of a local lashkar in Upper Dir district, sources said.
Sources said that unidentified persons attacked a tractor trolley of Turi rustics in Munda area near the Afghan border in Kurram Agency and killed three woodcutters.
The victims were identified as Jamil Hussain, Ahmad Hussain and Basit Hussain. The driver of the tractor, Ibrar Hussain, received serious bullet injuries. He was shifted to tehsil headquarters hospital in Alizai.
The rustics organised an armed lashkar and chased the attackers. But the attackers managed to escape.
The residents said that incidents of murder and kidnapping were on the rise in the valley despite military operation in the area.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow...
a convoy of relief goods including food items and medicines arrived in Parachinar, the headquarters of Kurram Agency, on Monday. Majlis-i-Wahdatul Mohammedaneen, an Islamabad-based body, has dispatched relief goods for internally displaced persons of the tribal region.
The deputy secretary general of the organization, Alama Amin Shahidi, was also accompanying the convoy.
The organisers said that police in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
and authorities in tribal areas had refused to allow the convoy to proceed to Parachinar because of security reasons.
However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
after negotiations and intervention of federal government the trucks were permitted to proceed.
Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. It smelled phony...
Islamic fascisti from Afghanistan side once again attacked positions of local lashkar in border areas of Upper Dir on
Sunday night. However,
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residents of Sro Kallay said that the attack was repulsed successfully.
They said that Islamic fascisti opened firing on positions of villagers, guarding their areas from the attackers hiding in Afghanistan.
Militants have been attacking security forces and local people, who have taken up arms against them, for the last few months.
Locals said that Islamic fascisti suffered losses during the two previous attacks. They said that Islamic fascisti had sent a letter to a leader of the lashkar and threatened him to get ready for punishment.
According to the residents of Nusrat Darra and Shahteez, Islamic fascisti have entrenched in a forest along the Pakistain-Afghanistan border and are looking for opportunity to launch attacks against the people of these villages.
They said that those Islamic fascisti had beat feet the 2009 military operation in Swat, Buner and Lower Dir. The villages have asked government to ensure deployment of sufficient number of security forces in these areas to foil designs of jihad boys.
Meanwhile,
...back at the bake sale, Umberto's Mom's cannoli were a big hit...
security forces recovered 22 rounds of rocket, three Kalashnikovs and two other rifles from a house in Acaar and Jabar area during a search operation. According to Gandigar cop shoppe, no one was incarcerated during the operation.