Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
(KP) Inspector General (IG) Akbar Hoti claimed on Monday that Mangal Bagh,
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency...
chief of a banned outfit, was killed in a military operation in Kurram Agency.
...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
Talking to news hounds, Hoti said the warlord was killed during a skirmish with security forces in the tribal region where a military offensive is underway. Bagh's banned Laskhar-e-Islam (LI) operates in Kurram and Orakzai agencies. At least 51 cut-throats and four soldiers have been killed in air strikes and festivities with security forces in Kurram and Orakzai over the past week, officials said on Sunday. On the other hand, the banned outfit rubbished the claims and said Bagh was alive and staying at a safe place.
LI commander Muhammad Hussain told a TV channel that Bagh was not killed in a military offensive. Bagh, a former bus driver, wais at the forefront of the increasing Talibanisation of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of the country's northwest. His forces mounted increasing attacks on Beautiful Downtown Peshawar and, in broad daylight, kidnapped residents for high sums of ransom. He was the leader (and according to some reports, founder) of LI, a paramilitary organization operating in Khyber and Orakzai agencies.