[Dawn] Unknown gunnies shot and killed a former local politician in Charsadda district, in the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province, police officials said.
Police officials said the man was a member of the Awami National Party (ANP), the provincial ruling party, which is often targeted by gun-hung tough guys who see the ANP as supporting the US-led war against al Qaeda and The Taliban in Afghanistan.
No one grabbed credit.
Meanwhile in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, a group of gun-hung tough guys ambushed a paramilitary convoy in the Uch area, security officials said.
Three gun-hung tough guys were killed when Pak forces returned fire.