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...
Earlier in the morning a security forces convoy was targeted in Nadar Mela with an IED, which resulted in the death of one soldier while three others were maimed.
Assistant political agent Rafiq Mohmand told Dawn.Com that the orc stronghold of Gundai Mela in Mamozai has been taken over by security forces. Eight bully boyz were killed during the offensive.
He said that during air strikes in Inzar Mela, Jandri Kalle and Adu Khel area of Mamozai, four orc hideouts were destroyed while 12 bully boyz were also killed, adding "those killed are mostly affiliated with the TTP."
Five bully boyz were also killed in another clash.
Officials also believe that the fall of Gundai Mela to the security forces is a huge success due to the strategic location of the village.
The adjoining mountainous region, near the Dogar village of
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...
, is also a key weapon supply route for Orakzai orcs.
However security forces, after taking over key villages in the TTP stronghold of Mamozai, are not advancing to the areas bordering Kurram Agency and Tirah Valley.