The wife of a Frontier Corps soldier and their three children were killed when a mortar shell hit their house in Akakhail area adjacent to Khyber Agency on Sunday morning.The family members of Doulat Mir were asleep when the shell fired from an unknown place hit the house. Mir was injured. Those killed were identified as Syed Umar (6), Hamida (3), one-year-old Nadia and their mother Mahjabeen. Police and officials of the political administration said they knew nothing about the incident because it had taken place outside of their jurisdiction. Dawn.
A tribal elder was killed and his brother received critical injuries in a remote controlled blast in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency on Saturday. Sources said that a jirga of Kamarkhel tribe was in progress in Takhtaki village when an explosive device concealed in a sack exploded. Tribal elder Rasheed Khan, who was also head of a local peace committee, was killed while his younger brother was critically wounded in the blast, they added.Meanwhile, members of banned militant organisation Lashkar-i-Islam torched at least three houses of Zakhakhel elders and two shops in Matray area of Bazaar Zakhakhel. The inmates of the affected houses had left the area since long owing to armed clashes between Lashkar-i-Islam and its opponents. Dawn.
Chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) Maulana Fazalur Rehman has strongly condemned drone attacks in tribal areas and demanded the government to take up the matter at diplomatic level with the US government. Addressing a grand jirga in Peshawar on Sunday. he stressed the need for dialogue process to settle all issues in FATA.Maulana Fazalur Rehman said that tribal people are patriotic and peace loving and they have no link with terrorists. Fazal-ur-Rehman has also said that the tribal people will not allow thrusting of decisions, taken on Islamabad and world level, on them and whatever decision will be taken, in this regard, by the tribes we will support them. The Frontier Post, Dawn.
Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Barrister Masood Kausar said private sector should be encouraged to start small energy projects regarding solar energy in FATA as there are great opportunities for private investors to invest in energy sector in tribal areas.This he said in a meeting with a delegation led by MNA Hameed-ullah Jan Afridi and Senator Engineer Rasheed at Governor’s house Peshawar. The Governor said we are keenly interested in solar energy besides hydel energy projects in FATA and said that the Federal Government should also take initiative to enrich FATA with energy resources. He said there should be a FATA Bank specifically for tribal people to facilitate them in grant of loans and other transactions. The Frontier Post.
Two men died while several link roads and other infrastructure were badly affected due to the torrential rains and floods in various areas of Barang tehsil of Bajaur Agency on Sunday, local source said. “The unprecedented rains, which started late Saturday night, continued till Sunday morning and affected most parts of the area,” said villager Bakht Rawan.“The flood washed away Jannat Khan and Fayyaz Gul, hailing from Koot area of Malakand Agency while they were fishing in a river,” said an official of the Bajaur Levies. He said rescue work had been launched but the bodies were yet to be recovered. The News.
Polio cases reported from Peshawar, Kohat, Lakki Marwat D.I. Khan, Khyber Agency, and Waziristan. The government has formed 20000 teams including mobile and transit to administer Oral Polio Vaccinate (OPV) to around 6.1 million children in Khyber Pakthunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal areas (FATA) during three days national immunization campaign starting from Monday.”All is set to launch a three-day National Immunisation Campaign in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata on Monday, wherein 6.1 million children under five years of age would be vaccinated,” Dr Janbaz Afridi, Deputy Director EPI, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa told APP on Sunday. The Frontier Post, The Frontier Post.
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