...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
, the capital of restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province.
The incident took place on Saturday at 2 am.
Official sources said that about 60 to 70 armed gunnies raided Faqeer Kalley in Mashokhel area of Badbher, some one kilometres away from the main city and kidnapped 18 people from the village.
The local people and the police said the kidnapped people belonged to the Shinwari tribe of Khyber agency.
Badhber police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against three commanders of the banned religious outfit Lashkar-e-Islam for kidnapping of eleven rustics. Commanders Khalid, Sherkhel and Izzat have been nominated in the FIR.
One of the kidnapped persons has managed to escape from the kidnappers and has reached back home who phoned the police that the Khyber Agency
-based Lashkar-e-Islam kidnapped the rustics.Peshawar lies on the edge of Pakistain's tribal areas which have been labelled by Washington as the main sanctuary for Al Qaeda and Talibs in the country.
The city has seen frequent attacks by bully boyz in the past few years, with targets ranging from civilians to coppers and other law enforcement personnel.
Separately, the political administration of Khyber Agency has also suspended the polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
vaccination drive scheduled to begin on March 17 due to the law and order situation.