on Monday.Officials said that Khasadar and Levies personnel assisted by Beautiful Downtown Peshawar police, Anti-Narcotics Force and FC surrounded the house of Malik Gul Rehman in Ghundi area after getting information about the presence of a gang of kidnappers inside.
They said that sensing danger the kidnappers opened fire on the security forces, which was retaliated.
Local sources said that exchange of fire continued for almost eight hours as the operation was launched at 9am and ended at 5pm in the evening.
Officials said that two khasadars
...a rural policeman in Pakistain or India...
identified as Mir Mat and Yousuf bit the dust when hit by bullets fired from the besieged house.
Another khasadar received injuries and he was shifted to a hospital in Peshawar.
Officials claimed to have killed three kidnappers while one of their accomplices managed to escape. Forces also put the house on fire after killing the three outlaws.
Local sources, however, said that a police official from Peshawar ordered killing of two kidnappers when they surrendered soon after the operation was launched.
Local sources said that one of the kidnappers held the forces engaged for almost eight hours after he saw execution of his accomplices at the hands of police. He was killed only when the forces used rocket launchers to destroy the house, they added.
Officials of political administration denied allegation about killing the two outlaws after their surrender.
In Nowshera, four coppers were maimed when a remote controlled bomb planted by suspected bully boyz along the main G.T. Road went
kaboom!on Monday.
Officials said that four personnel of Elite Force including ASI Mohammad Rizwan, constables Riaz Anjum, Ihsanullah and Jawad were on way to Nowshera from Pabbi in a police van.
"When they reached the Refugee Camp Bridge near Azakhel, a remote controlled bomb planted beneath the bridge, went
kaboom!and injured the four coppers," they added.
The injured coppers were taken to district headquarters hospital in Nowshera from where ASI Rizwan and constable Riaz were referred to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.
District Police Officer Mohammad Hussain along with a police contingent reached the site and started search operation. Seven suspected persons were locked away, he said.
In Bannu, a man and his wife received injuries when a rocket hit a house on Monday morning.
Sources said bully boyz fired three rockets on Bannu Cantonment at 6:45am from unspecified location. One of the rockets fell on a house, injuring Mohammad Nawaz and his wife Shabana Bibi.
The second rocket landed in the courtyard of a mosque while the third one fell on a road. The boundary walls of the house and the mosque were damaged.
The injured were taken to district headquarters hospital. The injured man in stated to be at death's door.
Police cordoned off the area and started search operation soon after the incident. Several suspects were locked away and shifted to undisclosed location for interrogation.
In
Mohmand... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
Agency, an improvised bomb, planted by suspected bully boyz along a roadside at Qandharo area of tehsil Safi, was defused by security forces on Monday.
The security forces also conducted search operation in the area. However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
there was no report of any arrest.