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October 22-28, 2012
FRC Weekly Report
By Nawaf Khan
Bajaur Agency:
On 22 Oct 2012, two minor girls were injured when four mortar shells fired by militants from Afghanistan landed in Mamond tehsil in Bajaur Agency.
On 23 Oct 2012, the tribal people displaced from Salarzai tehsil of Bajaur Agency owing to attacks from across the Afghan border have started returning to their native villages as administration has declared the area free of militants.
On 25 Oct 2012, the tribal people have demanded of the political administration to take effective steps to stop smuggling of livestock as it was causing hike in the prices of sacrificial animals in Bajaur Agency.
On 20 Oct 2012, Sector Commander (North) of Pakistan Army Brigadier Haider Ali announced the lifting of curfew in Bajaur Agency around four years after its imposition, saying the move has been made after the restoration of peace and establishment of the government’s writ across the tribal region.
Mohmand Agency:
On 24 Oct 2012, Levies personnel and volunteers of Haleemzai Peace Committee demolished the houses of five suspected militants in Roadh Mandi area.
On 25 Oct 2012, suspected militants blew up two government primary schools in Haleemzai tehsil.
Khyber Agency:
On 23 Oct 2012, the security forces recovered huge quantity of ammunition from a house at the Torkhum border.
On 23 Oct 2012, about 70 stone crushing units have been closed in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency for the last three years owing to the ongoing military operation and worse law and order situation. On 24 Oct 2012, two persons including a suspected militant were shot dead while another was injured during a search operation in Akkakhel area of Bara.
On 25 Oct 2012, four labourers were killed when a mortar shell landed at a factory in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency.
On 25 Oct 2012, two non-combatants succumbed to their injuries in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency as they could not be provided timely medical treatment owing to precarious security situation in the area.
On 25 Oct 2012, the reconstruction of all destroyed government schools in Landi Kotal and Jamrud tehsils of Khyber Agency would be started soon after Eid, said Political Agent Mutahir Zeb.
On 26 Oct 2012, eight militants were killed when helicopter gunships pounded militant hideouts in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency.
On 26 Oct 2012, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Home and Tribal Affairs Department is concerned over an estimate prepared by the political administration Khyber Agency for the construction of a terminal complex near Pak-Afghan border at Torkham.
Orakzai Agency:
On 22 Oct 2012, at least eight militants were killed and several of their hideouts destroyed when security forces shelled hidey-holes of miscreants.
On 23 Oct 2012, a spokesman for TESCO said that two missiles were fired at 66 KV grid station Orakzai agency by some unknown miscreants.
Kurram Agency:
On 23 Oct 2012, security forces targeted three hide outs of militants in the upper orakzai agency thereby killing at least eight militants and injuring six others.
On 26 Oct 2012, security forces claimed to have killed a suspected militant in Bagan area of lower Kurram.
North Waziristan Agency:
On 22 Oct 2012, Political administration North Waziristan has declared that curfew will remain imposed for the fourth consecutive day in the whole of North Waziristan Agency.
On 22 Oct 2012, dozens of truck owners and drivers en route Afghanistan threatened road block today if curfew was not lifted in NWA. On 23 Oct 2012, one child killed and four others injured in artillery shelling on a Miranshah village allegedly by security forces.
On 23 Oct 2012, authorities lifted curfew in the North Waziristan Agency after three days.
On 25 Oct 2012, four men and a woman were killed when a US drone attacked a suspected militant compound near Miramshah in North Waziristan.
On 26 Oct 2012, a soldier and two Tribal Area Electric Supply Company (Tesco) employees sustained injuries in a landmine blast.
South Waziristan Agency:
Peshawar:
On 22 Oct 2012, a British newspaper revealed shocking new evidence of the full horrific impact of US drone attacks in Pakistan, The Mail reported.
On 22 Oct 2012, the owner of a travel agency injured seriously and his driver was killed when unidentified motorcyclists attacked his car in Haleemzai area of Shabqadar tehsil in Charsadda district.
On 22 Oct 2012, police recovered six rocket shells in Sari Kallay area. Police called Bomb Disposal Squad to safely defuse the shells.
On 22 Oct 2012, in Kohat the headless body of a man was found packed in a gunny bag in Kot village.
On 22 Oct 2012, Anti-Corruption Department (ACD) arrested 14 persons involved in smuggling sacrificial animals to Afghanistan.
On 22 Oct 2012, a man was shot dead by unidentified persons in Darga area in the limits of Ghuriwala Police Station District Bannu.
On 22 Oct 2012, Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) Chairman Aftab Sherpao said that military operation in North Waziristan would further deteriorate the law and order situation as the use of force was no solution to establish peace in the region.
On 22 Oct 2012, UN urged Afghanistan's Taliban leadership to enforce their ban on the use of Improvised Explosive Devices, a day after 19 wedding guests were killed by a roadside bomb in the north of the country.
On 22 Oct 2012, in the wake of operation in Matani and other rural areas of Peshawar and FR, the security has been beefed up on the entrance points of Nowshera. On 23 Oct 2012, six persons including a traffic constable, sustained injuries when a bomb planted on a bicycle went off in Shewa Adda.
On 23 Oct 2012, six persons were injured as two blasts rocked Swabi when Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti arrived in the district on an official visit.
On 23 Oct 2012, after the deadly attack on activist Malala Yousufzai a few weeks ago, another schoolgirl from Swat, Hina Khan, who was a pioneer in raising voice against Taliban atrocities in the Malakand Valley, is now claiming to be on the Taliban’s hit list.
On 23 Oct 2012, Governor Masood Kausar has extended the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Protection and Welfare Act, 2010 to the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (Pata) after the president’s approval.
On 23 Oct 2012, Peshawar is among 14 districts in the country with high incidence of violence against women over the first six months of the current year, according to an Aurat Foundation report.
On 24 Oct, Three personnel of Frontier Constabulary (FC) were injured in a blast on Frontier Road on the outskirts of Peshawar.
On 24 Oct 2012, in Lakki Marwat, a villager was seriously injured in a bomb explosion near a primary school in Nar Bakhmal Ahmadzai.
On 24 Oct 2012, fifteen people have been arrested over two bomb attacks on the convoy of Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, district police officer Abdul Rashid said.
On 24 Oct 2012, the death toll of the Afghan security personnel from a Taliban attack in western Herat province climbed to 10 as the local authorities confirmed the two missing soldiers have also been killed.
On 24 Oct 2012, Chief Executive Officer Tribal Areas Electricity Supply Company (Tesco) Pervez Khankhel Swati said that kidnapping of company employees is a reaction of the recovery campaign started in tribal areas under the directives of Ministry of Water and Power.
On 24 Oct 2012, an oil tanker exploded near Tarujaba oil depot damaging another oil tanker as well. Both tankers were completely destroyed however no casualty was reported.
On 25 Oct 2012, the Durand Line is the internationally recognized boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan, says the US State Department while rejecting the Afghan government’s protest over an earlier US statement on Pakistan-Afghan border.
On 25 Oct 2012, In Swabi, suspected militants blew up a government middle school in New Nehar Jahangira. On 25 Oct 2012, a bridge and few houses were damaged in a blast near Bacha Khan Markaz, the central office of Awami National Party.
On 26 Oct 2012, in Hangu a girl was killed and three persons were injured in a bomb blast in Gulshan Colony.
On 26 Oct 2012, two US soldiers serving in Afghanistan have been killed by a man wearing Afghan police uniform.
On 26 Oct 2012, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Barrister Masood Kausar said that he is very pleased to have contacts with all the political forces for ensuring smooth continuity of political activities in Fata, which, he added, are also accruing positive results.
On 26 Oct 2012, one Frontier Constabulary personnel was injured when militants attacked Aziz Market Chowki, Budhber.
On 26 Oct 2012, a congressional oversight body has sent a letter to the US State Department, saying that some American-funded companies and individuals are actively supporting the insurgency in Afghanistan.
On 26 Oct 2012, Pakistan jumped into a war of words between Afghanistan and the United States over the legitimacy of Durand Line as an international border saying it was a “settled issue”.
On 26 Oct 2012, British troops killed two of their own soldiers in a ‘friendly fire’ incident in Afghanistan while two American soldiers were shot dead by an Afghan ally.
On 26 Oct 2012, a girl was killed and three other persons of her family sustained injuries in an explosion.
On 27 Oct 2012, a suicide bomber killed at least 41 people, including five children, when he struck at a mosque in northern Afghanistan after Eid al-Azha prayers.
On 27 Oct 2012, Gunmen shot dead two members of an anti-Taliban peace committee in northwestern Swat valley.