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India-Pakistan
Tribe given two days to find missing Fata employees
2016-03-12
[DAWN] The political administration in South Wazoo Agency gave on Friday two days to elders of Sulimankhel tribe to find five employees of Fata Develop­ment Authority (FDA) and their four guards who went missing in an area of the agency on Thursday.

According to officials, Assistant Political Agent Saad Qaisrani held a meeting with elders of the tribe and asked them to produce the missing people by Sunday. Otherwise, he warned, action would be taken against the entire tribe under the collective responsibility clause of the Frontier Crimes Regulation.

The action would include sealing of properties of the entire tribe and suspension of ‘incentives’. Besides, they would be kept under custody till the release of the missing employees.

The employees went missing on Thursday when they were inspecting development work in Toi Khula, an area close to the agency’s border with Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
No group has grabbed credit for the kidnapping.

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.
, an official statement said that Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra had taken notice of the matter and directed officials of security agencies and political administration to do everything possible to get the personnel freed.
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