Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
six persons suspected of having links with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), sources told Dawn.
"They were being tracked for a couple of weeks and were found in a terrorist hideout in the Shahzad Town police precinct," the sources said, confiding that the six belonged to the Khorasani group of the
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...
chapter of the TTP.
Nothing "worth mentioning" was recovered from the suspects by the raiding party, which included paramilitary elements, and they were taken to
They arrived in the federal capital recently and were hiding in the house. Their arrest is considered a 'great success' as hopefully they will help the security forces reach other gunnies who might have infiltrated the twin cities and their adjacent areas, said the sources.
Early this month Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
...
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle FesterSharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain
publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture...
- and before him Islamabad Inspector General of Police Tahir Alam Khan - had told media about the "presence of terrorists" in the federal capital.
In fact, the local intelligence department had alerted the authorities concerned about a year ago that hard boyz may be arriving here, mingled with the IDPs leaving North Wazoo before the military launched its Operation Zarb-e-Azb
..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)...
against the TTP elements.
Vigilance had been intensified at bus terminals in the capital in the wake of the December 16 schoolchildren massacre in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...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.
. Capital police have also been watching vehicles and passengers arriving into the city and gathering intelligence.
Police picked up 80 suspects in search operations they conducted in Kohsar, Margalla, Shalimar, Ramna, Golra and Tarnol precincts.