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...
on Friday, official sources said.
Sources told Dawn.com that the blasts targeted the peace committee volunteers in Chinari village of Safi Tehsil and the corpse count is likely to rise. They said that Musawar, son of peace committee elder Dara Khan, was among the dead.
According to local rustics, the first blast targeted the peace committee members, who were riding a cycle of violence, with a remote-controlled IED. The second kaboom took place when the bodies and injured from the first blast were being evacuated, they added.
Injured have been shifted to the main hospital in the area.
Security and rescue teams reached the blast site and cordoned off the area as a probe into the incident went underway.