Suicide attack kills 17 in Bajaur Agency
Friday, May 4th, 2012 12:01:10 by Faisal Farooq
A suicide bomber blew himself on Friday in Khar Bazaar, Bajaur Agency, a tribal district along the Pak-Afghan border, killing at least 17 people including security officials and injuring over 40.
Officials while speaking to the media said the target of the attack were tribal police personnel where were patrolling Khar, the headquarters of Bajaur Agency.
Political Agent Islam Zeb observed, “So far 12 bodies have been shifted, while more than 40 have been injured. It was a suicide attack”.
Another official said that initial reports suggested that the target of the bomber was Subedar Major Javed and Subedar Fazl Rabi, who was also honored with the Tamgha-e-Shujaat award.
Some of the injured who were shifted to Agency Headquarter Hospital Khar said that the bomber was a young boy who attacked Levies personnel seated outside a shop. The bomber was about fifteen years of age, the guessed.
While explaining the incident, one of the injured said that the bomber ran towards the security officials and detonated him near the Levies check-post.
Officials at the Agency Headquarter Hospital said that the condition of many injured was critical and that some of them might be shifted to Peshawar and other nearby districts. An emergency has been declared at the hospital.
On Thursday, five people, including three security officials, were killed while one person suffered injuries when two roadside Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) went off in Bajaur Agency.
Officials had said that two of the men were from the FC while one was from the Bajaur Levies.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. The attack came two days after Pakistan went on a high state of alert for the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s killing by American troops, fearing a wave of revenge attacks.
Bajaur has been one of the hardest-hit zones in Pakistan’s battle to contain a local Taliban insurgency in the northwest. The military conducted major anti-Taliban offensives in Bajaur in August 2008 and February 2009, and has repeatedly declared the district secure.
The US State Department released documents recovered from Osama Bin Laden’s compound, which revealed Al-Qaeda had warned Baitullah Mehsud for carrying out attacks on Mosques, civilians inside Pakistan
Tags: Agency Headquarter Hospital, Al-Qaeda, Baitullah Mehsud, Bajaur Agency, IEDs, khar, Levies, Osama bin LadenShort URL: https://www.newspakistan.pk/?p=21423
Posted by Faisal Farooq
on May 4 2012. Filed under Pakistan.
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These are all RAW created agents, organized, trained and financed by Indian Hindus, for fighting against Pakistan Army, exactly like Mukti Bahinees in East Pakistan. There is a need to educate general public at large scale.Unfortunately this “Democracy”, prevalent in Pakistan has no concern about these aspects, rather they are doing what they know, how to do i.e. swindling money,destroying all institutions, crumbling the industries, thus facilitating Indian incursion and subsequent control, for which they have been paid. This scenario suites the Americans,as they are already hand and glove with Indian Bania to ward off any further intrusion by the Chinese, thus they have come openly to support Gilani and Zardari.