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| Shoot-on-sight orders: Pillion riding banned in Bara |
| 2011-12-25 |
| [Dawn] Security forces on Friday imposed ban on riding double in Bara and warned that violators would be shot on sight. Acknowledging the ban, Bara Assistant Political Agent Rehan Khattak told Dawn that the step was taken to curb attacks against security forces and supporters of the local administration. "The ban applies to the entire Bara tehsil and would be strictly implemented," he made it clear. Local sources said that announcements were made on loudspeakers in different parts of Bara cautioning the local residents against use of cycle of violences. "Violators would be shot on sight and the bike would be torched and no leniency would be shown to anyone," said the announcements by the security personnel from loudspeakers fitted atop their vehicles. Bara has of late witnessed a surge in armed attacks against the security forces, mostly carried out by myrmidons riding cycle of violences. The local administration had on three previous occasions banned riding double in Bara but it could not be effectively implemented. Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... a teenaged girl was killed and five persons including children were maimed when stray mortar shells fell on three different houses in Shalobar area of Bara on Friday. Sources said that the slain girl was Hafiz-i-Koran. One of her girl students was also injured when the shell hit the house while the students were busy in learning Koran. Two children of Jan Mohammad and two more persons were also injured shells hit two other houses. All the injured were taken to Hayatabad Medical Complex in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar for treatment.In another development, security forces placed in long-term storage four suspect faceless myrmidons during a search operation in Shakas area of Jamrud tehsil on Friday.Officials said that placed in long-term storage men included two young sons of Haji Najeebullah, former local ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami ... The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independentbranch there since 1975. It close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Unidentified faceless myrmidons on Thursday night destroyed a private school for boys in Landi Kotal. Local residents in Khuga Khel area said that three kabooms took place one after the other which destroyed at least seven rooms and boundary wall of Bacha Khan School. Local authorities took the watchman into their custody and started investigation. A Kukikhel ...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in awhile they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government... primitive was critically injured when his vehicle was hit by a roadside kaboom in Serhai area of Tirah valley on Friday. Cause of the kaboom could not be immediately ascertained. |
| Posted by:Fred |