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| Explosives-laden car seized in Peshawar |
| 2012-03-14 |
| [Dawn] Police claimed to have foiled an attempt to carry out a kaboom at a cattle market in Chamkani area of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar on Monday. They said that police took an abandoned motorcar into custody and recovered 40 kilograms of explosives, detonator, remote control and other items from its cavities. They said that the personnel of Bomb Disposal Unit defused the explosives. They said that investigations were underway and a case against unidentified Death Eaters was registered at Chamkani cop shoppe. Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... the corpse count of Badhber suicide kaboom reached to 17 as another injured identified as Naveed succumbed to his wounds in Lady Reading Hospital on Monday. An official said that senior coppers headed by SSP Umer Riaz were busy in investigating the incident. He said that it was a challenge for police to ascertain as to where from the jacket wallah reached the graveyard and how he carried out the blast unnoticed. Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... political administration of Frontier Region of Lakki Marwat launched a crackdown on Bettanni rustics on Monday after the expiry of deadline, set for safe recovery of four kidnapped officials. Three officials of Sustainable Plains Development Programme (SPDP) identified as Jehanzeb, Kachkol Khan and Awal Khan, residents of Mardan, along with a Levies soldier Naser Khan were kidnapped from FR Lakki on the night between Wednesday and Thursday. "The officials had gone to the tribal area to inspect the works of SPDP and set up forest nurseries there," official sources said. They said that political administration held a jirga with the elders of Bettanni tribe with a clear message to get the kidnapped officials released within four days or face action. "The tribal elders failed to play their role in securing release of the kidnapped officials within the stipulate time," they said, adding that failure of tribal elders forced authorities to initiate action under the collective responsibility clause of Frontier Crimes Regulation. They said that more than 36 tribal elders were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock besides sealing their business centres in Tajori town. "The authorities also impounded six vehicles of the tribe," they added. |
| Posted by:Fred |