Jun 30, 2008

military operation in khyber agency

That's what i was expecting. Finally government took a bold decision to handle militants by force rather than engaging them in dialogs. Orakzai agency(where my villages is situated) shares a border with khyber agency. Tension arise and then mounted two year back between Lashkar-e-Islam and Ansar-ul-Islam when they started attacking each other on their private FM radios. Deadly clashes between religious groups in khyber have taken lives of hundred of people for the last two years, and the clashed are still on in the border area and atleast 60 people are reported been killed and several injured in few days. Both the groups are using heavy weapons.
Lashkar-e-Islam commander mangal bagh got hold of nearly the entire region and put many of his rivals into his torture cells two months earlier and order people to obey him or get ready for the punishment.
After getting the hold of khyber agency, Lashkar-e-Islam commander mangal bagh spread his activites to settle area and capital of N.W.F.P peshawar. It is also beleived that he was involved in the abduction of cristians who were kidnaped and then released few days earlier.

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