... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
| Wait -- arming teachers?? But this isn't Texas! |
Kurram Agency...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
have asked people to surrender weapons.
And they're gonna line right up to do that.
Residents said that the army and paramilitary troops conducted raid in Bughdy village in the west of Parachinar four days ago and collected firearms from houses.
An elder of the area said that plenty of ammunition and several weapons were taken away from a residential compound.
Haji Gul Akbar, head of Anjuman-e-Hussainia, a body that represents all sub clans of Turi tribe, confirmed the raid in the Bughdy village.
He said that the matter had been taken up with political agent Amjad Ali Khan.
"The political agent appreciated support of Turi tribe and assured its elders that all seized weapons would be returned to them," he said.
Bughdy, a hamlet of houses, lies astride the border along Afghanistan's Paktia province and this long stretch from Piwar Kotal down to Kherlachi belongs to Turi tribe.
Gul Akbar said that last year, the Death Eaters sneaked into Pak territory from Afghanistan and attacked a border post of security forces near Bughdy.
Paramilitary forces suffered some casualties in the attack and residents of Bughdy provided backup support to the paramilitary troops besieged in the post.
Not only bodies of Frontier Corps soldiers were retrieved from the post but one attacker was captured as well.
Elders in parts of lower Kurram have been asked three days ago to hand over heavy weapons otherwise security forces will conduct operation to seize them.