July 05, 2008	Saturday	Rajab 1, 1429

PESHAWAR, July 4: The federal government started operation in Khyber Agency in consultation with the NWFP government and the Chief Minister, Ameer Haider Hoti, had participated in the meeting that decided about the operation in Khyber Agency as well as in the settled areas of Peshawar, said Senior Minister NWFP Rahimdad Khan on Friday.

Talking to PPI the senior minister said that the situation in Peshawar was gradually deteriorating as the people of the provincial capital were scared after the militant groups ‘started knocking at the doors of Peshawar’ therefore operation against the ‘miscreants’ was inevitable.

“A group in Khyber Agency had started kidnapping of females and had besieged the police posts in Hayatabad, whereas another group under the garb of Taliban had started patrolling in the suburbs of the capital city, people were really scared and they were feeling insecure and vulnerable before the militant groups,” Rahimdad said advocating in favour of the ongoing operation in Khyber Agency. —PPI