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India-Pakistan
Two 'militants' among four killed in Khyber
2011-11-21
[Dawn] Four persons including two suspected Death Eaters were killed on Saturday in two
separate incidents in Khyber Agency.

Official sources said that unidentified gunnies rubbed out two suspected Death Eaters in Akkakhel area of Bara. They said that suspected Death Eaters were riding a cycle of violence when then were attacked by the gunnies.

The attackers managed to escape after the incident.

Local sources in Tirah said that two rustics were killed when a mortar shell fell on a house in Toor Toot area on Saturday.

"The locality is situated near the border with Orakzai and Kurram agencies where security forces are targeting bad boy positions with heavy artillery and tanks," they said. A number of artillery shells have reportedly fell in the fields and deserted places in the area.

In Bannu, suspected Death Eaters blew up a link bridge and a house in different areas on Saturday.

In the first incident, Death Eaters planted improvised bomb at the house of Gul Azad in the limits of Saddar cop shoppe. The device went off with a big bang and damaged the boundary wall, doors and windowpanes of the house.

The blast was followed by another kaboom in the limits of Hooveed cop shoppe where Death Eaters planted a bomb at a bridge and detonated it. The bridge was partially damaged in the blast.

In Lakki Marwat, a house was damaged when a bomb went kaboom! in Darra Pezu Town late on Friday night.

Sources said that an bomb was planted outside the house of Chaudhry Aslam that went off late in the night and damaged the main gate and a portion of the boundary wall of his residence.

Chaudhry Aslam, a businessman, is an active member of the town's welfare and peace body.

In Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central, a tribal elder and leader of Salarzai Peace Committee beat feet unhurt in a roadside kaboom on Saturday.

Locals and political officials said that Malak Gul Akbar along with another associate was coming from Pashat area to his home
in Danqool area of tehsil Salarzai. When he reached near his home a remote controlled bomb planted by unidentified persons went kaboom! with a bang. However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
Malak Gul Akbar survived while his other aide sustained injuries. He was taken to hospital.

No group has grabbed credit for the attack. The peace committee volunteers launched search operation in the area soon after the incident.

Meanwhile,
...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase...
security forces in a crackdown nabbed more than 12 tribal people in connection with blowing up of a government primary school in Danqool area under collective territorial responsibility clause of FCR.

On the other hand Salarzai rustics have decided to set up peace committees for security of school buildings and heath centres in different areas of the region. Each committee will consist of 10 armed volunteers.
Posted by:Fred

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