Source: The News
Personnel of the law-enforcement agencies would be deployed on Kohat-Oblan road to ensure safe return of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) to their hometowns in Orakzai Agency, official sources said on Wednesday.
The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by the Commissioner Kohat division Khalid Umarzai about the strategy to open Kohat-Orakzai road through Oblan. Political Agent of Orakzai Agency Riaz Mehsud, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Kohat range Abdullah Khan, District Coordination Officer (DCO) Kifayatullah Khan, District Police Officer (DPO) Delawar Khan Bangash, Senior Superintendent of Police Hangu Abdul Majeed Afridi and high-ups of Pakistan Army were also present in the meeting.
Riaz Mehsud gave presentation about recent developments in Orakzai agency and strategy regarding safe repatriation of IDPs was reviewed. Commissioner Khalid Umarzai said that most areas of lower tehsil of Orakzai Agency had been cleared of the militants. He said that the road between Kohat and Orakzai agency was made secure for the safe passage of the IDPs to their hometowns.
The commissioner stressed on the elders of Orakzai to cooperate with security forces and political administration to restore peace in the area. Over 300 families of IDPs have returned to their homes in Storikhel in lower tehsil of Orakzai Agency, he added.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Boy killed in explosion and dead body found
Source: The News
10-year-old boy was killed at the Afghan refugees camp in Ghumkul village when an explosive device went off inside a house on Wednesday. Sources said Sher Muhammad was playing in his house when the explosion occurred. He was killed on the spot. Meanwhile, bomb disposal unit (BDU) officials defused a five-kilogram, remote-controlled bomb planted on the roadside near Jarma graveyard.
Body Found: A bullet-riddled body was found at Gurguri in Dhoda area on Wednesday. Sources said body of an unidentified person was found by the Billitang police in Gurguri village and was shifted to Liaqat Memorial Hospital, Kohat, for autopsy.
10-year-old boy was killed at the Afghan refugees camp in Ghumkul village when an explosive device went off inside a house on Wednesday. Sources said Sher Muhammad was playing in his house when the explosion occurred. He was killed on the spot. Meanwhile, bomb disposal unit (BDU) officials defused a five-kilogram, remote-controlled bomb planted on the roadside near Jarma graveyard.
Body Found: A bullet-riddled body was found at Gurguri in Dhoda area on Wednesday. Sources said body of an unidentified person was found by the Billitang police in Gurguri village and was shifted to Liaqat Memorial Hospital, Kohat, for autopsy.
Ex-MNA offered conditional release in Kohat
Source: Dawn
Kohat Commissioner Kahlid Khan Umerzai has asked the detained former MNA, Shah Abdul Aziz, through a jirga to stop campaign against the foreign and national oil companies and submit sureties in this regard for his early release.
He was talking to a 20-member jirga led by MPA Malik Qasim Khan which called on at him at his office.
The participants of the jirga appealed to the commissioner to order release of former MNA. The meeting also discussed the role of the former MNA in many other controversial issues like that of Jamia Hafsa, the murder a foreign geologist by Taliban in which he was on bail and recently hurling threats to the foreign companies working in his home district.
The MNA was arrested few days ago near Bannu under 18 MPO for disturbing peace and creating law and order situation in Karak district where he had been threatening the Hungarian MOL and national OGDCL companies to give rights to local people otherwise he would launch an armed protest movement against them.
Later, two persons were assigned the task to meet Mr Aziz in jail and know about his response to the conditional release offered by the Kohat commissioner.
Kohat Commissioner Kahlid Khan Umerzai has asked the detained former MNA, Shah Abdul Aziz, through a jirga to stop campaign against the foreign and national oil companies and submit sureties in this regard for his early release.
He was talking to a 20-member jirga led by MPA Malik Qasim Khan which called on at him at his office.
The participants of the jirga appealed to the commissioner to order release of former MNA. The meeting also discussed the role of the former MNA in many other controversial issues like that of Jamia Hafsa, the murder a foreign geologist by Taliban in which he was on bail and recently hurling threats to the foreign companies working in his home district.
The MNA was arrested few days ago near Bannu under 18 MPO for disturbing peace and creating law and order situation in Karak district where he had been threatening the Hungarian MOL and national OGDCL companies to give rights to local people otherwise he would launch an armed protest movement against them.
Later, two persons were assigned the task to meet Mr Aziz in jail and know about his response to the conditional release offered by the Kohat commissioner.
Monday, April 26, 2010
People asked to vacate village ahead of army operation
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.
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.
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.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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