...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...on Saturday, disrupting supply of electricity to the entire agency.
| Electricity is unislamic, according to those with the power to enforce their opinion. |
The explosives went off in the small hours of Saturday and destroyed the tower completely. The kaboom was heard in far off areas.
Officials said that administration had launched investigation into the incident.
| "Someone blew it up with malice aforethought, Watson." "Holmes, how do you do it?!" |
Officials said that the administration had decided to beef up security of the high power transmission line in the agency. "For this purpose, more Levies personnel will be deployed at the towers along the power line," they added.
The local administration and security forces launched a search operation in Jar and its surrounding areas and tossed in the slammer
Please don't kill me!
several persons.
An official told journalists that at least 20 people, majority of them locals, were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
during the crackdown.
An official of Tesco said that a technical team was called for repair of the tower. He said that the power supply to the agency would remain suspended for the next 36 hours.
This was the second attack on the high power transmission line during the past one week in the region. No group has grabbed credit for the attack.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard...
a government school was destroyed when forces of Evil fired rockets at Michni area of Shabqadar tehsil in Charsadda district on Saturday morning.
Local sources said that forces of Evil fried rockets at government girls primary school at Aisha Koroona near the FC Centre. The school building was destroyed in the attack, they added.
They claimed that actual target of the attack was FC Centre but the rockets missed it and fell on the school.