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 Thursday, officials said.
They said that security forces were providing escort to 300 passengers going from Parachinar to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar when armed persons travelling in a suspected car approached the convoy from the opposite direction. When it reached Bagun area, the soldiers opened fire on the vehicle.
They said that two cut-throats were maimed in the firing. The suspected persons along with their maimed accomplices abandoned the vehicle and bravely ran away, they added.
Sources said that the attackers belonged to the group of cut-thoat commander Mohammad Ayub.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment...
one person was killed and seven others were maimed in two different incidents in upper and lower Kurram.
In the first incident, gunnies opened firing on a vehicle near Alizai and injured two persons identified as Nasir Hussain and Hadi Hussain.
In another incident, one person was killed and five others were maimed in a clash between the residents of Boshara and Malikhel areas. A resident of Boshara was killed while five others received injuries in the clash.
Security forces fired artillery shells from their base in Parachinar to end the clash.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths...
a body was found in Chappari area of lower Kurram Agency on Thursday.
Officials said that deceased belonged to upper Kurram Agency, however, his identity could not be established. The dear departed was kidnapped from the main road few days ago.
The body was hanging from an electricity pole near a security checkpost. A cellular phone number was also inscribed on the body. The body was sent to Parachinar for identification.
In South
Wazoo Agency, security forces blew up five houses near Wana on Thursday and tossed in the calaboose 20 rustics under Frontier Crimes Regulation.Sources said that security forces backed by helicopters besieged houses in Manrh, Sholam and Raghzai areas and conducted a search operation. They said that 20 people were tossed in the calaboose under territorial responsibility clause of FCR and were shifted to Brigade Headquarters at Zari Noor colony for interrogation.
After search operation soldiers destroyed five houses with dynamites. Sources said that a convoy of security forces was attacked on Wana-Angoor Adda Road three days ago. One soldier was killed and two others were maimed in the attack.
They said that administration took action under FCR because it was the responsibility of rustics to prevent such incidents in their area. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
locals said that authorities had tossed in the calaboose innocent people, who had nothing to do with the attack on security forces.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact...
an kaboom caused partial damage to a health unit in Tanai area near Wana on Wednesday night.
In Shangla district, police claimed to have recovered a cache of arms, dumped at a hilltop by suspected cut-throats in Charsar area, on Thursday.
The arms include seven mortar shells and 13 hand grenades.