Orakzai Agency... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
on Tuesday.
Official sources told Dawn that hard boyz attacked security forces in Barlas area, some 45km west of Ghaljo, agency headquarters of upper Orakzai Agency, injuring soldier Omar Gul.
They said the soldier was shifted to the hospital before security forces backed by tanks and artillery targeted bad turbans, killing eight and injuring three.
Sources said a vehicle of hard boyz was also destroyed in the fighting.
However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
the Taliban denied the killings and said not a single bad turban was killed in the clash.
Spokesman for Taliban Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain...
said from
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
security forces conducted search operation in Narik and Dappar Kalli areas also in the day and seized a huge cache of arms.
In Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
, three Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) employees returned home within 72 hours of their kidnapping.
Azhar, Fayyaz and Haider Shah, all belonging to Punjab province and working on a highway in Ghulama Khan area, were taken away by unidentified people along with an oil tanker.
Shortly after the kidnappings, local political agent Siraj Ahmad Khan ordered the sealing of all entry and exit points to North Wazoo Agency to keep a tight watch on the movement of kidnappers.
He also formed parties to raid possible hideouts of kidnappers under the supervision of Ghulama Khan's political tehsildar Khandan and tehsildar Shah Wazir.
The political agent told local news hounds that efforts of the said parties led to safe recovery of the kidnapped FWO employees along with the oil tanker and that, too, without payment of ransom.
He said nobody would be allowed to take the law into their own hands and that the administration had zero tolerance for kidnappings.
Local elders and holy mans, who were also in attendance, assured the administration of complete support for peace.
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
political agent Siraj Ahmad Khan restored all perks and privileges of local rustics.
He said he was hopeful that rustics wouldn't shelter hard boyz in their respective areas after the restoration of perks and privileges.
Mr Khan urged rustics to help the administration establish the writ of the government in the area.
He said funding valuing billions of rupees had been allocated for development work in the region.