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Ten-member Peace Jirga reaching today from Hangu
2008-04-03 19:02:00 CNews HANGU: A ten-member peace jirga is arriving in Parachinar from Orakzai Agency and Hangu today (Thursday).The jirga will hold negotiations with the sides for peace in the region and opening the Hangu-Parachinar Road.Talking to Cnews News, Jirga Member Syed Hussain Ali Shah said the peace jirga consisting of ten veterans from Orakzai Agency and Hangu would arrive in Parachinar, where they will hold negotiations with the elders of the parties for lasting peace in the area.It should be mentioned the Peace Jirga played a very important role in ceasefire following inter-tribes clashes on November 16 in Kurram Agency. Peshawar-Kurram Agency Road is closed for one month in the wake of incidences of kidnappings and killings, whereas, the power supply to the village situated at Pak-Afghan border is suspended for three weeks owing to the collapse of power pylon.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
Gas supply to Peshawar CNG stations stopped
2008-01-25 09:25:00 CNews PESHAWAR: Over 100 factories of Peshawar Industrial Estate have been closed here as The Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) has stopped providing gas to CNG stations to ensure its supply to domestic consumers.The Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited took the said decision after the go-ahead sognal from the caretaker government.He said that under a plan of gradual suspension, the SNGPL stopped supply to a couple of CNG stations in Hayatabad on Thursday.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
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2007-11-20 19:36:00 Journalists arrested from KPC released (Posted at 2205)KARACHI: All the journalists arrested from Karachi Press Club have been released after Governor Isharatul Ibad Khan ordered their release on Tuesday night.According to Press Secretary to Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ibad, the Sindh Governor issued orders for the release of journalists.Earlier today in the afternoon, police baton charged journalists protesting against ban on Geo Television Network and curbs on media outside the Karachi Press Club and arrested over 200 of them including five ladies journalists.According to reports the representatives of media were going to the Governor House to talk with the authorities when police stopped them. Thereupon, the journalists staged a sit-in protest, but the police starting to arrest them. Chasing the journalists? policemen entered in Karachi Press Club premises and started baton charge over the newsmen in the club wounding several of them. Those arrested by the police included Geo News...
Unannounced curfew imposed in Kabal (Swat)
2007-10-27 20:55:00 CNews SWAT: Home secretary NWFP Badshah Gul Wazir said that the government has to take further steps to control the situation in Mattah, an area of Swat.Here in Kabal, the attack from armed persons on the police station was averted and the security forces have imposed an unannounced curfew in Kabal.Talking with CNews News in Peshawar, home secretary Badshah Gul Wazir said that in the areas of Swat ? Mattah and Kabal ? law and order situation has become worse and to overcome it the government would take further steps.He told that the security forces have averted the attack from militants at the police station in Kabal. However, according to independent sources, the militants attacked the police station after which flames were seen rising from the police station. Later, the security forces imposed an unannounced curfew in Kabal.Badshah Gul Wazir further told that the chief minister NWFP, Shamsul Malik has announced to give a cash prize of Rs.500,000 to the security officials obstructi...
Unknown persons kidnap three policemen from Hangu check-post
2007-10-27 20:44:00 CNews HANGU: Some unknown persons have kidnapped three policemen from the security forces check-post at the Hangu district.Sources told that some unknown persons attacking the Torpal check-post in Tal area of the district Hangu abducted the policemen and took them away to some unknown destination.Taj Mohammad, Sakhi Badshah and Munsif Ali were included among the abductees. Police said that the investigations into the incident have started.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
140, Uzbeks, Afghans arrested from Pak-Afghan border
2007-10-26 09:06:00 CNews CHAMAN: Security forces have arrested 140 Afghan and Uzbek nationals during a search operation in Chaman area near Pak- Afghan border.DPO Chaman Naseebullah Khilji told CNews News that police on Wednesday arrested 20 Uzbek citizens during a raid at a house near Pak-Afghan border. Later ATF had cordoned off the border area and 120 more Uzbek and Afghan citizens were arrested in the search operation. DPO said that majority of arrested persons belonged to Afghanistan?s northern areas. Three agents who helped people in crossing the border were also arrested.The detainees were shifted to Saddar Police Station in Chaman. Police put on high alert and more raids are underway.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
30 killed as Swat blast targets security forces vehicle
2007-10-25 11:03:00 CNews SWAT: A blast tore through a security forces vehicle in restive northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 30 people and wounding dozens more, a senior security official said.The attack in scenic Swat valley in the North West Frontier Province was the latest in a wave of violence targeting the military since government troops stormed the Al-Qaeda-linked Red Mosque in Islamabad in July.The blast comes just one day after Pakistan deployed more than 2,000 military troops to the area to bolster efforts to stem the rising violence, which is linked to pro-Taliban militants.The truck -- carrying paramilitary soldiers and packed with ammunition -- was travelling on a road outside the valley's main city of Mingora when the explosion occurred, the security official said."Thirty people were killed in the explosion including 17 paramilitary soldiers. The damage was high because the truck was packed with ammunition," the official, who asked not to be named, said.Swat mayor Fazlur Rehman said...
Over 300 armed miscreants present in Swat: Bacha Gul
2007-10-25 10:57:00 CNews PESHAWAR: More than 300 armed miscreants were present in Swat, provincial home secretary here said on Thursday.Home Secretary of NWFP Bacha Gul Wazir talking to Cnews News here said that no military operation will be launched in the area but action will be taken against those creating hurdles in the efforts for maintenance of peace and public order in the area.The security men have started patrolling at Kabal, Ayub Bridge and Kanju areas of Swat, he said, adding that between 300 to 400 miscreants and criminals were present in the area. He indicated probable presence of foreigners among the miscreants.These persons have been armed with automatic weapons and rocket launchers, which might be smuggled from Afghanistan, tribal areas and other places to here, home secretary said.Provincial home secretary said that the government was working to control the situation peacefully. All DCOs and DPOs have been directed to hold Jirgas in their areas, he saidHe said the government would est...
Militants kill two Pakistani soldiers in North Waziristan
2007-10-23 09:29:00 Pro-Taliban militants in North Waziristan have killed two Pakistani soldiers in separate incidents, official sources have said. Naik Waris Khan, a paramilitary soldier, was killed ...
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Seven killed in Dera Bugti wagon blast
2007-10-20 09:54:00 CNews DERA BUGTI: Seven persons were killed in an explosion in passenger wagon traveling to Sui from Dera Bugti on Saturday, officials said. The blast was occurred in a bus at Mail Bazaar area of Dera Bugti this morning, in which seven passengers were killed on the spot and six others were seriously wounded, officials said. They feared increase in death toll. Security forces cordoned off the area immediately after the incident. It was probably a remote-controlled device that was used for explosion in the bus, sources said.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
Bajaur girls? school building blown up
2007-10-20 09:50:00 CNews BAJAUR: An explosion in a girls? school razed the building to ground in Bajaur tribal agency on Saturday.Miscreants had planted explosives at various spots in government girls? middle school building in Tangi area of Sallarzai tehsil in Bajaur tribal region, sources said. The building crumbled to ground as explosives went off with loud blast that rocked the area.No loss of life reported in the incident, sources added.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
Musharraf disqualified for presidency, says Fazlur Rahman
2007-10-17 19:03:00 CNews BANNU: Secretary Muttahida Majalis Amal (MMA) Maulana Fazlur Rahman has said President Musharraf is disqualified to hold presidential office and advised the military avoid to be a party in national politics. Addressing a public meeting in Bannu Sports Complex he said the pro US policies have driven Waziristan to a warlike situation and destroyed peace in the region. He demanded withdrawal of all check posts from North Waziristan and said that he didn?t refuse to cooperate for peace in the region.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
4 check post being removed tonight in Waziristan
2007-10-15 13:30:00 CNews MIRANSHAH: As many as four check posts will be made defunct tonight in North Waziristan in the wake of successful negotiations held among jirga, security forces and local Taliban.Besides, all the roads in Mir Ali are being re-opened by removing all obstructions on them and lifting the curfew from the area.According to Jirga sources, Jirga organized fruitful talks with the local Taliban, after which they held negotiations with the government office-bearers; after these dialogues, the decision regarding removing the four security check posts from North Waziristan tonight was taken.Two check posts among them are situated in Miranshah area of North Waziristan and the other two are located in Mir Ali.According to Jirga sources, the government gave its consent to ceasefire.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
Rockets fired in Sui
2007-10-13 18:31:00 CNews DERA BUGTI: Unknown persons fired three rockets in Sui area of district Dera Bugti of Balochistan but no loss of life was reported.Government sources said that unidentified persons fired three rockets in Sui Town from nearby mountains last night but no casualty was reported in the incident. Police had registered the case and started investigations.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
Partial Eid in parts of S Waziristan, Bajaur and Kurram Agency
2007-10-13 18:23:00 Cnews PESHAWAR: Eidul Fitr is being celebrated in parts of South Waziristan, Bajaur Agency and Kurram Agency following announcements by the private Ruet-i-Hilal committees in several cities and towns that the Shawaal moon had been sighted.Eid is also being celebrated in Tank, Lucky Marwat, Bannu, Tull, Dara Adamkhel and other adjoining areas.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
TPS in North Waziristan Camp
2007-10-13 16:47:00 I cannot resist but to tell you that one of our author 'Revo' has just returned back from the camps established by Jamat-e-Islami in FATA, and he is numb and feeling very low. People in those camps are very hapless. Some 800 Pakistani families, who were livinng cozily in their homes, like we are in Karachi, Islambad and Lahore and all of a sudden they become a part of collateral damage.No family is compete in those camps. No one has anything left. Their homes are vanished and they have nothing to eat and nothing to wear. Though we dont agree with many things Jamat-e-Islami does politically, but regardless of anything, they have done a grand and great thing for setting up couple of camps for these people, otherwise they would have been lost in our Eid Celebrations.People in cams told TPS that they hadnt seen a single trace of Al-Qaeda or any terrorist in their area. They said that there are local Talibans, who have their sympathis with Talibans in Afghanistan, but there is no conce...
Bomb blast damages railway track in Quetta
2007-10-12 17:00:00 CNews QUETTA: A bomb blast damaged three feet portion of railway track between Saryab and Spazand near Quetta.According to railway officials, unknown persons planted a bomb at railway track that exploded with a bang destroying three feet portion of the track. Railway administration and police officials have reached at accident site.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
Security man hurt in attacks on Bajaur checkposts
2007-10-11 07:00:00 CNews PESHAWAR: A security man was injured in rocket and mortar attacks at check posts of Bajaur Levies and Scouts in Bajaur tribal region.Miscreants destroyed Bajaur Levies checkpost near degree college Khar and Chargon checkpost in tehsil Salarzai with explosions.Another check post of Bajaur Levies in Enayat Qila Bazaar was attacked with light weapons, in which a security man Shamsur Rahman was wounded and transferred to Agency Headquarter hospital in Khar.Unknown attackers fired three rockets at Bajaur Scouts checkpost but no casualties reported in the incident.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
200 miscreants killed in North Waziristan: DG ISPR
2007-10-11 07:00:00 CNews MIR ALI: The Inter-Services Public Relations director general Major-General Waheed Arshad claimed that some 200 people had been killed in the recent operation in the militancy-haunted tribal region, adding that all those killed in the assault were ?terrorists?.The top military spokesman went on to say that no air strike was launched against the militants since Tuesday afternoon.Maj-Gen Waheed confirmed that 48 soldiers had been killed while 20 sustained injuries during the recent operations. He also denied any kind of ceasefire between the militants and security forces.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
N. Waziristan: 7 wounded in airstrikes succumb to injuries
2007-10-10 17:00:00 CNews MIR ALI: Seven more persons wounded in airstrikes in North Waziristan yesterday were killed Wednesday while death toll in the fighting in Mir Ali between security forces and militants has reached to 72.Security forces continued raid over hideouts of suspected attackers whole night killing 15 more persons at Hurmiz, Asokhel and Hyder Khel areas, while seven wounded in yesterday?s airstrikes were succumbed to their injuries.Residents of the war-torn region are still fleeing from the area.Tribal elders holding talks with the officials to achieve a ceasefire and discuss other related issues.The security forces while targeting militants? hideouts in an area adjoining to Mir Ali on Tuesday had killed about 50 militants and wounded over 150 persons.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
Al-Qaeda and Taliban nexus in Pakistan's tribal belt: US
2007-10-10 17:00:00 CNews WASHINGTON: Pakistan's rugged tribal zones are the alleged hideout of Osama bin Laden and home to an array of militant factions -- and if history is any judge, subduing them will be a bloody struggle.Three days of some of the deadliest clashes since the fall of neighbouring Afghanistan's Taliban regime in 2001 have left around 200 militants and 45 soldiers dead, along with an unknown number of civilians.Al-Qaeda has regrouped in the pine-dotted region, according to the United States, while militant sources say bin Laden's son and possible successor, Hamza, has recently arrived there.At its heart is a nexus between mainly Arab Al-Qaeda agents and local tribesmen who either support the Taliban or directly take part in attacks on security forces in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.A recent bout of militant infighting that claimed 300 lives in South Waziristan exposed some of the shadowy dealings in the region.Pakistani pro-Taliban rebels took on other militants led by a fugitive ...
Stop Air Strikes in North Waziristan
2007-10-09 19:41:00 The people in the tribal belt and in the North/South Waziristan are as much Pakistanis as are the people in Lahore, Islamabad and in Karachi. They themselves want to live in peace and harmony. They also dont want to breed militancy within the state, and they also dont want to attack their own army.Agreed, sometime back when US attacked Afghanistan, Talibans of Arab and Azbuk origin fled to this area, but now after a severe operation by Pakistani forces for some months, they have gone back to the hideouts in Afghanistan and elsewhere, and now there are some local Talibans who are Pakistanis fighting with the army.Force cannot resolve this issue. Carpet bombing in Tehsil Mir Ali and other parts of Waziristan is not the solution. Hundreds of residents are getting injured and are dying with wounds in their own houses, while the air strikes by our air force carries on. People are crying that there are no more militants there, and there are only common citizens who are with the army.It is...
Al-Qaeda and Taliban nexus in Pakistan's tribal belt: US
2007-10-09 19:00:00 CNews WASHINGTON: Pakistan's rugged tribal zones are the alleged hideout of Osama bin Laden and home to an array of militant factions -- and if history is any judge, subduing them will be a bloody struggle.Three days of some of the deadliest clashes since the fall of neighbouring Afghanistan's Taliban regime in 2001 have left around 200 militants and 45 soldiers dead, along with an unknown number of civilians.Al-Qaeda has regrouped in the pine-dotted region, according to the United States, while militant sources say bin Laden's son and possible successor, Hamza, has recently arrived there.At its heart is a nexus between mainly Arab Al-Qaeda agents and local tribesmen who either support the Taliban or directly take part in attacks on security forces in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.A recent bout of militant infighting that claimed 300 lives in South Waziristan exposed some of the shadowy dealings in the region.Pakistani pro-Taliban rebels took on other militants led by a fugitive ...
20 injured in Peshawar bomb blast
2007-10-09 19:00:00 CNews PEHSHAWAR: A homemade bomb ripped through a music shop in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday injuring 20 people, police and hospital officials said. The blast happened in the Musafir CD Centre located in the basement of a busy shopping centre in the city, police and local shopkeepers said. The roof of the shop collapsed in the bombing, Peshawar police chief Abdul Majeed Marwat said.A doctor at a nearby hospital said 20 people were injured, five of them seriously. "No one has died," doctor Ruhul Amin said.The bomb had apparently been placed in a water cooler inside the shop, witnesses said. The owner of the shop had been receiving threats from suspected militants to close his "un-Islamic" business, shopkeepers said.Islamic militancy is spreading in the deeply-conservative province where militants, emulating the ultra-orthodox Taliban who ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, strive to impose their own strict brand of Islam.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
60 miscreants, 20 security men killed in N. Waziristan
2007-10-08 17:00:00 CNews MIRANSHAH: Security forces operation against miscreants in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan was continued on Monday. In the operation that started Sunday morning 60 miscreants and 20 security men have been killed.After attacks on the forces, ground troops with support of helicopters launched operation against miscreants in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan and targeted hideouts of the militants, official sources said.The forces have killed 60 miscreants, while 20 security men were martyred in battles.According to eyewitnesses clashes between the forces and miscreants were continued in Anso Khel, Khadi, Hyderkhel and Khushhali areas adjoining to Mir Ali till the late night. Several shells during the clashes landed in houses resulting in deaths of several women and children, the witnesses added.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
S. Waziristan: Three kidnapped security men killed
2007-10-04 16:54:00 CNews TANK: Three dead bodies of kidnapped security men were found at Wana road in Jandola town of South Waziristan. Pakistan military spokesman has confirmed that three dead bodies of abducted security men have been found and identified. The bullet-riddled bodies of three security men from a group of over 200 kidnapped some 33 days ago were found at Wana road in Jandola town of South Waziristan tribal region. The deceased belong to Dera Ghazi Khan, sources said. A letter has also been found with the bodies, in which Zulfiqar Mehsud, a spokesman for Betullah Mehsud, has threatened they would kill more abducted security men. Thr dead bodies have been shifted to Scouts Fort in Jindola. Pakistan military spokesman Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad has confirmed that three bodies of kidnapped soldiers have been found and all necessary steps will be taken with regard to the incident. Talking to CNews News Arshad confirmed that the authorities have stepped up efforts for safe recovery of the kidnap...
Mir Ali landmine blast kills 14 minibus passengers
2007-10-03 19:37:00 MIRANSHAH: A roadside explosive device ripped through a passenger minibus in Pakistan's troubled tribal belt bordering Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people, security officials said. The blast happened near Mir Ali, the second biggest town in insurgency-hit North Waziristan district, on a road that is frequently used by Pakistani military convoys. "The bus hit an explosive device planted on the road by militants, destroying it completely. Fourteen people died on the spot and five injured were taken to hospital," a security official said. The attack happened hours after a pre-dawn clash between pro-Taliban militants and soldiers near the same town left 10 rebels and two troops dead, the military said. A peace deal signed between the Pakistani government and militants in September 2006 in North Waziristan -- one of seven semi-autonomous tribal zones -- broke down in July. Violence has spiked in Pakistan since the collapse of the deal and after Pakistani forces staged a...
Pakistan strikes al Qaeda two camps in North Waziristan
2007-08-07 18:16:00 Victory Caucus Artillery, helicopters assault two camps near the Afghan border As the security situation in North Waziristan and the greater Northwest Frontier Province, the Pakistani military launched an assault on two "militant" bases near the Afghan border. The military struck two Taliban and al Qaeda bases in the village of Daygan with artillery and Cobra gunship helicopters. "No ground forces were used in the assault," the Associated Press reported. The attack, which occurred 10 miles west of Miramshah, lasted four hours...Read the rest at The Fourth Rail |
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