Source: Dawn
People of the village of Tootkas, said to be a hub of militants in Hangu district, were asked to leave the area by Monday because a military operation was to be launched there.
Security forces decided to get the area vacated after local people expressed their inability to form a lashkar against militants hiding in their area. Earlier, the villagers had been given a three-day deadline which was later extended till Monday.
Officials said that Tootkas in Thall tehsil had become a stronghold of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan and there had been an increase in bomb attacks on security convoys waged from there over a few months.
There are also reports about presence in the area of activists of the banned Laskar-i-Jhangvi who have kidnapped and killed people of rival sects travelling between Kohat and Parachinar.A large number of Frontier Corps personnel supported by armoured personnel carriers have started moving towards the area.
Local people said that they had been asked to leave the area but the administration had made no arrangements to help them to move to and live in another place in the district.
It is learnt that people have started moving to Thall town. However, some are reported to be against leaving the area.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
DSP Gulfat Hussain was burried in Kohat
Source Daily Mashriq
DSP Gulfat Husain killed in Peshawar blast was buried with full protocol in his ancestors graveyard in Kohat. The top official of Police in Kohat attended the funeral of DSP Gulfat Hussain.
DSP Gulfat Husain killed in Peshawar blast was buried with full protocol in his ancestors graveyard in Kohat. The top official of Police in Kohat attended the funeral of DSP Gulfat Hussain.
Accident on Kohat Road
Source: Dawn
An accident in Kohat was occurred on the Rawalpindi road. Five people, including a child, were killed when a car fell from a bridge near Narikak while overtaking another vehicle.
Those killed included Mohammad Sakhi, Noorul Huda, Anzar Gul and Muslim Ayaz. The Gumbat police impounded the vehicle.
An accident in Kohat was occurred on the Rawalpindi road. Five people, including a child, were killed when a car fell from a bridge near Narikak while overtaking another vehicle.
Those killed included Mohammad Sakhi, Noorul Huda, Anzar Gul and Muslim Ayaz. The Gumbat police impounded the vehicle.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Flour Mill in Kohat under attack
Source Daily Mashriq
Provincial Housing Minister Amjad Afridi's flour mill located at Babri Banda on Kohat road comes under rocket attack on the night of Saturday Sunday. According to a source three rockets were fired from undisclosed location on the flour mill due to which the building was badly damaged. This mills also comes under attack one months ago due to which the machinery of the mill was damaged. The minister father was also targeted in the past by Taliban. The Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar termed the act as a cowardice act and strongly criticized it.
Provincial Housing Minister Amjad Afridi's flour mill located at Babri Banda on Kohat road comes under rocket attack on the night of Saturday Sunday. According to a source three rockets were fired from undisclosed location on the flour mill due to which the building was badly damaged. This mills also comes under attack one months ago due to which the machinery of the mill was damaged. The minister father was also targeted in the past by Taliban. The Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar termed the act as a cowardice act and strongly criticized it.
Kohat IDPs registration center closed
Source Daily Jang
Kohat IDPs registration office has been closed for one week due to recent blast at the IDPs camp. The Kohat Commissioner has claimed that the blast is due to the reaction of the ongoing operation in Orakzai Agency.
Kohat IDPs registration office has been closed for one week due to recent blast at the IDPs camp. The Kohat Commissioner has claimed that the blast is due to the reaction of the ongoing operation in Orakzai Agency.
Condition of Kohat blasts’ victims miserable
Soucre: The News
PESHAWAR: Recollecting the twin suicide bombings at a registration centre for IDPs in Kohat that left 41 persons dead, desperate attendants of the injured persons at the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) said life and death had lost its meaning in the tribal region.
A visit to the LRH on Sunday revealed that a number of the wounded including a boy were struggling for life in various wards. The 13-year-old boy, Minhad, having sustained critical injuries in one of the blasts, was in such a critical state that he was shifted to the general intensive care unit. Minhad went to the registration point established in the Kacha Pakha Union Council on the outskirts of Kohat for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) along with his mother.
He was near the spot when the first bomber detonated suicide vest near the queues of the IDPs waiting for registration, his cousin Ashfaq Ali said. He added that the mother of Minhad remained unhurt but he received fatal injuries.
He said most of the blast victims belonged to the Manikhel tribe displaced from lower part of Orakzai Agency and now settled in Hangu district. Expressing grief over the incident, he said: “The blood of innocent tribesmen has become the cheapest thing in the tribal areas as we do not know the reason and our fault for which we are killed.”
When asked about the condition of Minhad, Dr Mustafa in the ward said he was still in a critical state. In the Neurosurgery Trauma ward, there were two other victims identified as Ashfaq, a schoolteacher, and Kamran Ali, a wage earner.
Tending to Ashfaq lying unconscious on the hospital bed, his relative Shahadat Ali said: “When the first blast ripped through the crowd of IDPs, Ashfaq along with his 18-year-old son Mussadiq rushed to the spot. They started retrieving the bodies and the injured. But after seven minutes there was another suicide attack, killing Mussadiq on the spot and injuring his father.” He added that Mussadiq was a student of intermediate at a local college. He said Ashfaq had not yet been informed about his son’s death.
In the surgical ward, Taj Muhammad, Syed Shakeel Hussain and Niqab Ali were under-treatment. Niqab Ali, a schoolteacher, said he was passing through the area when he was caught in the blast.
Recalling the incident, he said the policemen deployed for security were inside the building of the Kacha Pakha Union Council and there were no security arrangements for queues of IDPs waiting outside. He said the tragedy that claimed the precious lives could have been averted with proper security arrangements.
The patients and their attendants claimed nobody from the government had yet visited them at the hospital to console them and enquire after their health. “Taliban are punishing because we are pro-government but the government functionaries are oblivious of our plight,” one of them said.
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PESHAWAR: Recollecting the twin suicide bombings at a registration centre for IDPs in Kohat that left 41 persons dead, desperate attendants of the injured persons at the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) said life and death had lost its meaning in the tribal region.
A visit to the LRH on Sunday revealed that a number of the wounded including a boy were struggling for life in various wards. The 13-year-old boy, Minhad, having sustained critical injuries in one of the blasts, was in such a critical state that he was shifted to the general intensive care unit. Minhad went to the registration point established in the Kacha Pakha Union Council on the outskirts of Kohat for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) along with his mother.
He was near the spot when the first bomber detonated suicide vest near the queues of the IDPs waiting for registration, his cousin Ashfaq Ali said. He added that the mother of Minhad remained unhurt but he received fatal injuries.
He said most of the blast victims belonged to the Manikhel tribe displaced from lower part of Orakzai Agency and now settled in Hangu district. Expressing grief over the incident, he said: “The blood of innocent tribesmen has become the cheapest thing in the tribal areas as we do not know the reason and our fault for which we are killed.”
When asked about the condition of Minhad, Dr Mustafa in the ward said he was still in a critical state. In the Neurosurgery Trauma ward, there were two other victims identified as Ashfaq, a schoolteacher, and Kamran Ali, a wage earner.
Tending to Ashfaq lying unconscious on the hospital bed, his relative Shahadat Ali said: “When the first blast ripped through the crowd of IDPs, Ashfaq along with his 18-year-old son Mussadiq rushed to the spot. They started retrieving the bodies and the injured. But after seven minutes there was another suicide attack, killing Mussadiq on the spot and injuring his father.” He added that Mussadiq was a student of intermediate at a local college. He said Ashfaq had not yet been informed about his son’s death.
In the surgical ward, Taj Muhammad, Syed Shakeel Hussain and Niqab Ali were under-treatment. Niqab Ali, a schoolteacher, said he was passing through the area when he was caught in the blast.
Recalling the incident, he said the policemen deployed for security were inside the building of the Kacha Pakha Union Council and there were no security arrangements for queues of IDPs waiting outside. He said the tragedy that claimed the precious lives could have been averted with proper security arrangements.
The patients and their attendants claimed nobody from the government had yet visited them at the hospital to console them and enquire after their health. “Taliban are punishing because we are pro-government but the government functionaries are oblivious of our plight,” one of them said.
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
Seven people die in suicide car blast in Kohat
Source: The News
KOHAT: At least seven people were killed and 26 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in the northwestern Pakistani city of Kohat on Sunday, police said.
"It was a suicide attack, the target was a police station," Dilawar Khan Bangash, city police chief, said while talking to a French news agency.
"The bomber exploded his vehicle on the back side of the police station.
"Seven people have been killed and 26 were injured in this car suicide attack," Abdullah Jan, the district's top police officer told reporters.
"These incidents are a reaction to the military operation in the tribal areas."
Another senior police officer confirmed the attack, adding that around 200 kilograms of explosives were used.
The attack comes just a day after two suicide bombers dressed in burqas struck a crowd of displaced people collecting aid handouts, killing at least 41 and wounding more than 60 at a nearby camp.
The bombers struck minutes apart on Saturday in the Kacha Pukha camp on the outskirts of the garrison city of Kohat, a registration centre for people fleeing Taliban violence and Pakistani army operations close to the Afghan border.
KOHAT: At least seven people were killed and 26 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in the northwestern Pakistani city of Kohat on Sunday, police said.
"It was a suicide attack, the target was a police station," Dilawar Khan Bangash, city police chief, said while talking to a French news agency.
"The bomber exploded his vehicle on the back side of the police station.
"Seven people have been killed and 26 were injured in this car suicide attack," Abdullah Jan, the district's top police officer told reporters.
"These incidents are a reaction to the military operation in the tribal areas."
Another senior police officer confirmed the attack, adding that around 200 kilograms of explosives were used.
The attack comes just a day after two suicide bombers dressed in burqas struck a crowd of displaced people collecting aid handouts, killing at least 41 and wounding more than 60 at a nearby camp.
The bombers struck minutes apart on Saturday in the Kacha Pukha camp on the outskirts of the garrison city of Kohat, a registration centre for people fleeing Taliban violence and Pakistani army operations close to the Afghan border.
3 FC men hurt in scuffle with local man
Source: News
KARAK: A man attacked a camp of the foreign oil and gas exploring company MOL, injuring three security personnel, sources said Saturday.
The sources said that one of the members of the Gurguri Islahi Tanzeem and former councilor Ghulam Ameen visited the Gurguri gas camp on Saturday and complained to the community relations officer of the MOL that his land had been badly affected by the storage water of the camp. The sources said the CRO assured him that his loss would be compensated.
Despite assurance by the CRO, the sources said, the man tried to meet the site in-charge of the MOL but the security in-charge refused to give him permission for the meeting.
During scuffle with the security personnel, Ghulam Ameen took out the knife and allegedly stabbed three security personnel of Frontier Constabulary. The local person was arrested by the police on the spot and was locked up in the Gurguri Police Station. Avatar (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) [Blu-ray]
KARAK: A man attacked a camp of the foreign oil and gas exploring company MOL, injuring three security personnel, sources said Saturday.
The sources said that one of the members of the Gurguri Islahi Tanzeem and former councilor Ghulam Ameen visited the Gurguri gas camp on Saturday and complained to the community relations officer of the MOL that his land had been badly affected by the storage water of the camp. The sources said the CRO assured him that his loss would be compensated.
Despite assurance by the CRO, the sources said, the man tried to meet the site in-charge of the MOL but the security in-charge refused to give him permission for the meeting.
During scuffle with the security personnel, Ghulam Ameen took out the knife and allegedly stabbed three security personnel of Frontier Constabulary. The local person was arrested by the police on the spot and was locked up in the Gurguri Police Station. Avatar (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) [Blu-ray]
Saturday, April 17, 2010
41 IDPs killed as bombers target camp in Kohat
posted in news
Two suicide bombers struck a crowd of displaced people collecting aid handouts, killing at least 41 and wounding more than 60 on Saturday at the Kacha Pukha camp on the outskirts of Kohat.
The bombers struck minutes apart in the camp, a registration centre for people fleeing Taliban violence and army operations close to the Afghan border.
"The toll in the two suicide attacks is 41 dead and more than 60 wounded," DIG Kohat Abdullah Khan told Geo News.
Meanwhile, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al Alami called Geo News correspondent and claimed the responsibility of the attack.
Body parts of the bombers were recovered and most of the victims were members of the Mani Khel and Baramad Khel tribes who had gathered for registration after fleeing fighting in their home district of Orakzai, sources said.
The first bomber detonated his explosives while displaced people gathered to register and receive relief items. A few minutes later the second bomber blew himself up in the middle of the gathering crowd.
Two suicide bombers struck a crowd of displaced people collecting aid handouts, killing at least 41 and wounding more than 60 on Saturday at the Kacha Pukha camp on the outskirts of Kohat.
The bombers struck minutes apart in the camp, a registration centre for people fleeing Taliban violence and army operations close to the Afghan border.
"The toll in the two suicide attacks is 41 dead and more than 60 wounded," DIG Kohat Abdullah Khan told Geo News.
Meanwhile, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al Alami called Geo News correspondent and claimed the responsibility of the attack.
Body parts of the bombers were recovered and most of the victims were members of the Mani Khel and Baramad Khel tribes who had gathered for registration after fleeing fighting in their home district of Orakzai, sources said.
The first bomber detonated his explosives while displaced people gathered to register and receive relief items. A few minutes later the second bomber blew himself up in the middle of the gathering crowd.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Cobra helicopter develops fault, lands in Kohat
Source: Dawn
A military Cobra helicopter coming from Waziristan to Kohat crash landed here in Jarma area on Sunday owing to some technical fault.
Officials said that the crew remained safe. The crash landing was result of some technical fault for which investigations had been ordered, they added. The helicopter was on a routine flight. Senior military officers and police reached the scene and removed the helicopter to the airbase with the help of heavy machinery.
Meanwhile, local tribesmen have found four beheaded bodies, three of them identified as Taliban commanders, believed to have been killed last week during clashes with security forces in Bezote village of Orakzai Agency.
Officials and tribal sources confirmed that local tribesmen in Bezote found the headless bodies of commanders Ehsanullah, Awal Noor and Said Mohammad. The fourth body could not be identified. The tribesmen buried all the four bodies in the local graveyard.
Sources said that Taliban always took away the heads of their killed companions or blew them up by placing hand grenades in their mouths to hide their identity when they had no time to bury them.
A military Cobra helicopter coming from Waziristan to Kohat crash landed here in Jarma area on Sunday owing to some technical fault.
Officials said that the crew remained safe. The crash landing was result of some technical fault for which investigations had been ordered, they added. The helicopter was on a routine flight. Senior military officers and police reached the scene and removed the helicopter to the airbase with the help of heavy machinery.
Meanwhile, local tribesmen have found four beheaded bodies, three of them identified as Taliban commanders, believed to have been killed last week during clashes with security forces in Bezote village of Orakzai Agency.
Officials and tribal sources confirmed that local tribesmen in Bezote found the headless bodies of commanders Ehsanullah, Awal Noor and Said Mohammad. The fourth body could not be identified. The tribesmen buried all the four bodies in the local graveyard.
Sources said that Taliban always took away the heads of their killed companions or blew them up by placing hand grenades in their mouths to hide their identity when they had no time to bury them.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Murder of Man and Woman in Kohat
two people one man and another woman were killed when they came to marriage ceremony in Pershai village at Village Gul Hasan Banda area by the family members of woman. It was learnt from the village people that the woman has illegal relation with the man for last eight years and her family members were in search of her and they found the opportunity yesterday. The bodies were later shifted to Kohat for further investigation in the matter.Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6" Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation)
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Seven soldiers hurt in accident
posted in news
At least seven soldiers were injured in a road accident here Saturday. Officials said that a convoy of the forces was proceeding to a base camp in Hangu. “One of the vehicles collided with another near the Hangu headquarters after the driver lost control,” they said. The injured soldiers included Naib Subedar Fazl Rafiq and sepoys Khair, Syed Nawaz, Syed Hassan, Abdul Sabooor, Noor Badshah and Shafiq.
At least seven soldiers were injured in a road accident here Saturday. Officials said that a convoy of the forces was proceeding to a base camp in Hangu. “One of the vehicles collided with another near the Hangu headquarters after the driver lost control,” they said. The injured soldiers included Naib Subedar Fazl Rafiq and sepoys Khair, Syed Nawaz, Syed Hassan, Abdul Sabooor, Noor Badshah and Shafiq.
Samiul Haq terms renaming ‘non-issue’
posted in news
Chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, Maulana Samiul Haq has said all human beings are equal in the eye of Islamic law and no ruler is exempted from accountability. Addressing the Karak Bar Association on Saturday, he said renaming of the province was a non-issue. He criticised the policies of the ANP government and said millions of Pakhtuns were displaced and killed during its rule. He said Pakistan was under the subjugation of US as its economy was also being controlled by foreign states.
Chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, Maulana Samiul Haq has said all human beings are equal in the eye of Islamic law and no ruler is exempted from accountability. Addressing the Karak Bar Association on Saturday, he said renaming of the province was a non-issue. He criticised the policies of the ANP government and said millions of Pakhtuns were displaced and killed during its rule. He said Pakistan was under the subjugation of US as its economy was also being controlled by foreign states.
official booked for bogus registration of vehicles
posted in dawn
The anti-corruption department booked official of excise and taxation for issuing bogus registration numbers against genuine papers to 42 vehicles, Dawn learnt on Friday.
The assistant director of anti-corruption department, Kohat and circle officer, acting on the directives of the director, NWFP, registered cases against excise and taxation officer, Shah Zaman, under section 419, 420, 468, 471 read with 5 (2) PC Act.
Officials told this correspondent that the said official had been issuing bogus registration numbers to vehicles whose owners had lodged several complaints that during verification of their cars in Punjab the papers were found fake.
The department also contacted the Pak Suzuki Company which also declared the papers of the genuinely imported and locally manufactured cars fake.
During investigations by the anti-corruption department Inspector Shah Zaman was found guilty and booked for forgery and causing trouble to people.
The anti-corruption department booked official of excise and taxation for issuing bogus registration numbers against genuine papers to 42 vehicles, Dawn learnt on Friday.
The assistant director of anti-corruption department, Kohat and circle officer, acting on the directives of the director, NWFP, registered cases against excise and taxation officer, Shah Zaman, under section 419, 420, 468, 471 read with 5 (2) PC Act.
Officials told this correspondent that the said official had been issuing bogus registration numbers to vehicles whose owners had lodged several complaints that during verification of their cars in Punjab the papers were found fake.
The department also contacted the Pak Suzuki Company which also declared the papers of the genuinely imported and locally manufactured cars fake.
During investigations by the anti-corruption department Inspector Shah Zaman was found guilty and booked for forgery and causing trouble to people.
bullet-riddled bodies found in Kohat
posted in dawn
Two bullet riddled bodies of Afghan nationals were recovered from a well while a woman committed suicide here on Friday.
Local people informed the police that they had seen two bodies in Dhodha. The police reached the scene and pulled out the bodies of Abdul Malik, resident of Ghamkol camp, Merozai and Zaafran, resident of Ghamkol camp number 3. Somebody had killed them brutally by firing dozens of shots.
The bodies were handed over to the relatives and the Bilitang police started investigation after registering case against unknown killers. In Darmalak area of Lachi tehsil a woman shot herself with a pistol in her house due to unknown reasons. The Lachi police registered a murder case on the complaint of the cousin of the deceased.
Two bullet riddled bodies of Afghan nationals were recovered from a well while a woman committed suicide here on Friday.
Local people informed the police that they had seen two bodies in Dhodha. The police reached the scene and pulled out the bodies of Abdul Malik, resident of Ghamkol camp, Merozai and Zaafran, resident of Ghamkol camp number 3. Somebody had killed them brutally by firing dozens of shots.
The bodies were handed over to the relatives and the Bilitang police started investigation after registering case against unknown killers. In Darmalak area of Lachi tehsil a woman shot herself with a pistol in her house due to unknown reasons. The Lachi police registered a murder case on the complaint of the cousin of the deceased.
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