Mohmand Agency... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
According to official sources, In Mohmand Agency's Pindiali tehsil, a security forces' convoy was hit by a roadside kaboom.
The injured soldiers were later shifted to a hospital.
After the incident, security forces cordoned off the area and began a search operation.
According to Pakistain Army's Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR), the security forces were dispatched to Pindiali earlier for a search operation as the Death Eaters had blown up a school in Sher Malik village situated in the Utmanzai area of Pindiali.
In a separate incident, Death Eaters attacked the house of a member of a peace committee Alam Sher in Wacha Jawara area of Utmanzai in Pindiali.
This attack comes against the backdrop of military action ongoing in parts of the North
Wazoo tribal region which has killed over 80, including 75 suspected bully boys.Mohmand is one of Pakistain's seven tribal agencies near the Afghan border which are rife with homegrown turbans and are said to be strongholds of Taliban and al Qaeda operatives.