Two commanders among 14 killed in Kurram clash

Sunday, March 21, 2010

The Daily Times, Pakistan -

PESHAWAR:

Two important Taliban commanders of the Mullah Toofan group are among fourteen killed and nine injured in fresh fighting between rival Taliban groups in Kurram Agency, sources said on Saturday. The two were identified as Jungle Badshah and Ayub Shah, who were members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Mullah Toofan group.

Three persons including a woman were also killed in the fighting in the Barozena area of Central Kurram agency, while six other people were injured.

Separately, jet fighters continued aerial strikes on Taliban hideouts in Mamozai, Shaktangi and Arghujo areas of the Upper Orakzai agency, which claimed ten lives.

Separately, the Ahle Tashi in the Kohat division announced they would not celebrate Jashn-e-Nouroze and other festivities due to the worsening law and order situation in Kohat and adjacent tribal regions. app

Six Taliban killed in Orakzai

Sunday, March 21, 2010

The Daily Times, Pakistan -

HANGU:

At least six Taliban were killed and four Taliban hideouts were destroyed in airstrikes by Pakistan Air Force (PAF) jets in Upper Orakzai Agency on Saturday.

Political administration officials told Daily Times that PAF jets targeted four Taliban hideouts at Ghaljo, Mamozai and Shadla Dago areas in Upper Orakzai Agency, in which six Taliban were killed and 11 others were injured. The officials said that the four hideouts were completely destroyed in the air strikes.

Separately, Frontier Corps personnel stationed at Qazi Talab checkpost arrested two Taliban with arms and shifted them to an unknown location for interrogation. saboor khan

Gunmen kill three Shi'is in Quetta

AFP, Sunday, March 21, 2010

The Daily Times, Pakistan -

QUETTA:

Gunmen shot dead six people in separate incidents in Quetta, police said on Saturday. At least three Shi'is were killed when two men riding a motorbike opened fire on them in Quetta, said police. “All three men died on the spot,” senior police official Tariq Manzoor said.

(Apparently, this is an attempt to cause chaos using sectarian Sunni-Shi'i violence as a cover).

In another incident, three people including a student and two employees of a cadet college were killed in a drive-by shooting on Friday. They were returning to Quetta from Mastung town, when gunmen riding a motorbike, opened fire on their vehicle killing the employees on the spot, while the student died on the way to hospital. afp

Taliban behead 3 'US spies' in Pakistan: police

AFP, Sun Mar 21, 2010, 3:08 am ET

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) –

 Taliban fighters in Pakistan's restive tribal area Sunday beheaded three men they accused of spying for US forces stationed across the border in Afghanistan, police said.

The bodies of three men were found near Mir Ali town in the North Waziristan tribal district that borders Afghanistan.

"Notes found with the bodies said the men were killed for spying for the US," tribal police official Nisar Khan told AFP.

Khan said the three dead men had themselves killed "several Taliban and ordinary people".

A local security official confirmed the incident.

Pakistani Taliban fighters frequently kidnap and kill local tribesmen accusing them of spying for the Pakistani government or US forces, who are battling a Taliban-led insurgency in war-torn Afghanistan.

Pakistan's rugged tribal regions have been wracked by violence since becoming a stronghold for hundreds of Taliban fighters who fled across the border to escape the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001.