...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.
school massacre, has been killed in an anti-terror operation in Pakistain's tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
Officials identified the slain terrorist as Saddam and added he was killed in a shootout with armed forces in Khyber tribal area bordering Peshawar on Thursday night.
"Commander Saddam was a dreaded terrorist, who was killed in an exchange of fire with the security forces in Jamrud town of Khyber tribal region," local official Shahab Ali Shah told journalists in Peshawar.
He said Saddam's six accomplices were maimed and tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
. Shah added he is believed to have facilitated the school attack but the extent of his involvement was not known.
"Six of his accomplices were maimed and arrested." He added that Saddam is believed to have facilitated the school attack, although the extent or capacity of his alleged involvement was not yet known.
"Authorities are currently interrogating the injured terrorists," Shah said.
He described Saddam as an important commander in the Pak Taliban, or Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), and said he had criminal masterminded several kabooms.
Saddam and his accomplices had been involved in several recent attacks on security forces that had resulted in heavy casualties, Shah said.
Many Taliban fighters had fled to Khyber from North
Wazoo after the Mighty Pak Army launched an operation against them in June 2014.Over 1,700 forces of Evil have been killed in the offensive so far. The operation has been intensified since the Peshawar massacre in which 134 children were among the victims.
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
a US drone strike on a Taliban compound in North Waziristan killed at least four Death Eaters on Friday, officials said, the second such incident in a week.
Another drone strike in North Waziristan on December 20 killed at least five holy warriors, officials said.
The area is generally off-limits to journalists, making it difficult to independently verify the number and identity of the dead.