4 schools blown up in Pakistan’s northwest

KABUL (PAN): Suspected militants have blown up four more government-run schools in Pakistan’s restive northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a media report said on Friday.
The schools -- two primary and as many middle -- were destroyed in the Safi sub-district of Mohmand Agency near the Afghanistan border late Wednesday night, the Express Tribune reported.

A search operation was ongoing, but the perpetrators were yet to be traced, the newspaper quoted Assistant Political Agent Jamshed Khan as saying.

More than 60 schools have been destroyed in the sub-district and 106 schools in Mohmand Agency, affecting hundreds of thousands of students.

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By Pajhwok Report Mar 1, 2013 - 11:14   

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4 troops killed in check post attack in NW Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, June 5 (Xinhua) -- At least four troops and 20 militants were killed when unidentified militants attacked an army check post in Pakistan's northwest tribal region of Mohmand on early Tuesday morning, local Urdu Tv channel Dawn reported.

NATO troops also attacked the same check post on November 26 last year, killing 24 troops and injuring 13 others. The incident resulted in U.S. pullout from Pakistani air bases and closure of NATO supply routes by Pakistani authorities.

Tuesday's attack occurred in wee hours of morning when an unknown number of unidentified militants stormed an army check post in Salala area of Mohmand Agency, a tribal region at Pakistan- Afghanistan border.

Four troops were killed in the attack, and 20 militants lost their lives in retaliatory attack by Pakistan army.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack yet, and there are no reports whether the attack was carried out by Pakistan Taliban or Afghan Taliban.

Presently, Pakistan Army maintains an 8,200-man presence in Mohmand Agency.

The security forces claimed last September that 90 percent of Mohmand Agency has been cleared of the Taliban militants. Tuesday' s check post attack is an indication that militants are coming back again in the area.

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Insurgents attack at Olai Check-post in Mohmand Agency, dozens killed

Dozens of Taliban fighters armed with latest weapons stormed Olai Check-post of the security forces near Salala area of teshil Bazai in Mohmand Agency on Monday, killing four security forces personnel while seven others went missing.

Official sources said that as the spring offensive has been kicked off in rugged regions of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, dozens of insurgents armed with automatic weapons in the wee hours rocked Olai Check post established by the security forces after the Salala Check-post was stormed by the Nato forces which created rift between the Pak-US relations.

“Four of our soldiers were martyred and seven are still missing after the attack,” an official said, adding that a search operation has been launched in the area.

Security forces immediately started a full scale operation against the insurgents and also to rescue the missing security men in the area, security sources said.

It is pertinent to be mentioned here that Olai Check-post in Mohmand Agency borders the Kunar province of Afghanistan and was established near the destroyed Salala check post. Most of the fugitive Taliban commanders and their foot-soldiers reside in their hideouts in the Kunar province and they frequently launch attack on Pakistani posts to enter Pakistani side of the border.

from nation.com.pk
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from KHAAMA:

The Pakistani military says dozens of Taliban militants coming from Afghanistan attacked border posts in the northwest,  killing four paramilitary soldiers.

The paramilitary Frontier Corps says Monday’s attack occurred in Olai, part of the Mohmand tribal area.

The attack in part of Pakistan’s restive tribal badlands, near the Afghan border, was beaten off when troops responded with artillery and heavy weapons, according to a spokesman for the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC).

“Four of our soldiers were martyred and seven are still missing after the attack,” an official said, adding that a search operation has been launched in the area.

In the meantime a local official Siddiq Ullah said, “Militants attacked a Frontier Corps checkpost in Baizai area of Mohmand tribal region on Sunday night, which triggered a firefight, killing three troops and 14 rebels.”

Five troops were also injured and the militants had infiltrated Pakistan from Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunar province, he said.

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Bomb blast kills 2 soldiers in NW Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- At least two soldiers were killed and two others injured when their vehicle hit a landmine in Mohmand tribal region in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, local media reported.

The vehicle carrying an unknown number of paramilitary troops was on routine patrol in Aleem Gar area in Mohmand, one of the seven tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Earlier on January 21, four soldiers were injured in a remote- controlled bomb blast in the very same area.

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PESHAWAR: Two security personnel were killed and one was injured when an explosion took place during a routine checking in the Safi district of Mohmand Agency, said officials.
According to sources, the two men who were killed were part of the Khasadar force who were on a routine checking in the Alenger area. The injured was shifted to a hospital.
The explosion seemed to be either because of a landmine or an IED (Improvised Explosive Device).
The Safi district is considered to be the homeland of the Taliban in Mohmand Agency prior to the security forces operation that cleared the area.

ftom tribune.com.pk

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Six militants killed in Landi Kotal clash

LANDI KOTAL: At least six militants were killed and 12 injured on Friday after Lashkar-i-Islam and its rival Zakhakhel tribal force exchanged gunfire to gain control of a key base in Bazaar Zakhakhel area of Landi Kotal on Friday.

Officials said the dead were six Lashkar-i-Islam fighters, while the wounded included six fighters of the militant outfit and six Zakhakhel force volunteers.

They said Lashkar-i-Islam fighters attacked the Shankhel base of Zakhakhel force near Nari Baba area but the attack was repulsed after prolonged exchange of fire.

Officials said the two groups had many bloody clashes over the last many days for the control of key hilltops in the area.

Also in the day, the head of a peace committee remained safe in a blast targeting him in Sangar Khwar area of Mohmand Agency on Friday.

An explosive device planted near the house of Malik Mohammad Ali Haleemzai went off without causing any damage to the head of the peace committee.

The levies and khasadar personnel cordoned off the area and began an operation to hunt the perpetrators of the blast. However, no arrest could be made until late night.

Mr Haleemzai told Dawn that he and his guards were safe and that he was inside the house when the explosive device went off.

He said he was the apparent target of the blast as he used the passage, where the explosive device was planted, to go to the regional headquarters of Ghalanai in car.

Local political administration registered a case against unidentified miscreants and began investigation.

Meanwhile, a khasadar succumbed to his injuries at Peshawar`s Lady Reading Hospital on Friday.

Taj Mohammad, a resident of Gul Bar Shah Korona Ekkaghound, was doing his duty on a bridge near Ekkaghound on the main Peshawar-Bajaur highway when a speeding coach hit him. With critical wounded, he was shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital, where he died.

In a similar incident in Charsadda district`s Ibrahimzai area, a government girls` school was blown up by militants early on Friday.

Police and locals said miscreants planted an improvised explosive device inside the building of a government school for girls in Ibrahimzai area near Sradheri and that went off in the small hours of Friday.

They said the blast damaged the school`s boundary wall, rooms, furniture and documents.


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