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India-Pakistan
Mardan school bombed; Tank trader kidnapped
2012-03-19
[Dawn] Two watchmen were maimed early on Saturday when bully boyz blew up the building of Government High School for Boys in Babozai area of Katlang tehsil in Mardan district, locals and police officials said.

Locals told Dawn that they were awakened at 2:45am by the loud kaboom of an bomb at the school and rushed to the premises and found watchmen Wakif Khan and Iftikhar with multiple injuries.

They said the two were shifted to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared condition of Mr Wakif critical.

The bomb disposal squad said that explosives used in the blast weighed around 20 kilograms.

Katlang police said the kaboom destroyed three classrooms, two staff rooms and the veranda completely, while the examination hall and restrooms were partially damaged.

They said they had registered an FIR against unidentified krazed killers.

Later in the day, senior police officials inspected the building. There followed the launch of an operation in Katlang and adjoining areas to hunt down bombers.

During the current week, it is the second krazed killer attack in Mardan city. Earlier, bully boyz blew up a CD market in Takht Bhai city on Malakand Road.

In southern district of Tank, over a dozen gunnies wearing military uniforms stormed the house of leading trader Sheikh Allah Nawaz in Pathankot area Saturday morning and took him away along with his servant in his car.

The trader's brother, Qayyum Nawaz, informed local police that five of the attackers entered the house, while others stayed outside holding them after covering his eyes with a piece of cloth.

He said that he heard gunshots before attackers decamped with his brother and his servant. He said he later found his nine-year-old daughter injured as he was shot at by trespassers.Local police registered FIR against unidentified attackers and began
investigation.

However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
no arrests could be made until Saturday night.

Over the last few weeks, the area has reported many cases of assassinations and kidnapping of influential people, including members of peace committees.

In Darsamand area of Hangu district
... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them...
, the terrorists' bid to blow up a bridge was thwarted by the bomb disposal squad on Saturday as they defused a 10kg bomb attached to it.

Locals said they spotted the bomb and informed police about it before the latter called in the bomb disposal squad for help.

Doaba police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified cut-throats and began investigation.

On Friday morning, cut-throats blew up a primary school for boys in the remote area of Kotangi Marchoongi. However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
no damage to human life was reported.

In Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, police on Saturday foiled a bombing bid by cut-throats on Sango Road in Sarband area.

Sarband cop shoppe's official Fazal Maula told Dawn that the remote controlled bomb was planted to target the patrol vehicle.

"We got information through informers and quickly called in the bomb disposal squad to defuse it. The bomb weighing 12 kilogrammes and placed in a cooker was successfully defused by the squad," he said.

He said police had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified cut-throats before beginning investigation.
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