[wvns] Jets Bomb Afghan Refugee Camp: Foreigners among dead

Foreigners among 11 militants killed
By Abdul Sami Paracha
Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/foreigners-among-11-militants-killed-219

KOHAT, Nov 21: At least 11 suspected militants, a majority of foreigners among them, were killed and seven others injured when jets bombed militant hideouts and an Afghan refugee camp in Orakzai Agency on Saturday.

Strikes were also carried out in Chappri Feroze Khel and Bezote areas bordering Khyber Agency.

On Friday night, a top militant leader and his seven accomplices were captured after an exchange of fire in Spin Thall area of Hangu district.

According to officials, militants opened fire at a convoy patrolling the area. Troops returned fire and after a long battle captured Muzaffar Shah and his accomplices.

A huge quantity of arms and ammunition was found in their possession. Muzaffar Shah was wanted for his involvement in bomb blasts and firing on security forces.

A dawn-to-dusk curfew was imposed in parts of Thall and in villages of Hangu district close to Kurram Agency and North Waziristan Agency.

Fourteen terrorists were killed in operation Rah-i-Nijat in South Waziristan on Saturday and Friday, adds APP.

Six troops, including an officer, also died in clashes.

According to ISPR, security forces cleared Gandil Wala area near Jandola and carried out search operation in Sarwekai.

A 70-foot-long tunnel was dismantled near Kaniguram.

Lakki Ghundi, 3km west of Pash Ziarat, was secured after an intense battle during which 14 terrorists and six troops were killed. Four troops were injured.

Manna, Tut Kasko Khula, Kandao Sar and Laghar Narai areas were also secured. The Laghar Narai-Nawazkot road was reopened.

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3 militants blow themselves up in Muzaffarabad
By Tariq Naqash
Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/3-militants-blow-themselves-up-in-muzaffarabad-219

MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 21: Three suspected militants blew themselves up after police and villagers gave a chase and surrounded them in a mountainous area here on Saturday.

According to officials, police launched a search in a suburb of the Azad Kashmir capital after residents reported that three men had dumped a bag of weapons behind a house.

Police and civil defence department officials found three Kalashnikovs along with 18 magazines, 12 grenades, six guided missiles, one pistol with two magazines and two jackets in the bag.

The suspects, in the meantime, had crossed over to the other side of the town using a suspension bridge on River Jhelum.

"We started chasing them and two more police parties joined us," a police official told Dawn.

Police in neighbouring Mansehra and Abbottabad districts had also been alerted, he added.

Finally, police and local people surrounded the three suspects on the Sarar hill and when they got close the militants blew themselves up. Their bodies blew apart and police found two heads and a torso. Head of the third militant was badly mutilated.

Police collected the body parts scattered all around the place and sent them to the Combined Military Hospital for a post-mortem.

Muzaffarabad DIG Shaikh Tahir Qayyum told Dawn that a computerised national identity card and Rs2,000 were found in one of the militants' jacket.

According to the CNIC, his name was Rahimullah, son of Sharifullah. He was a resident of Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Karachi, the DIG added. However, he said that genuineness of the CNIC would be verified.

On June 26 this year, two soldiers were killed and three others injured in the first-ever incident of suicide bombing in Muzaffarabad.

Security has been beefed up in the city and additional police forces have been deployed at all government installations.

Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider condemned the incident and said that all steps would be taken to maintain peace in the region.

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