September 15, 2008	Monday	Ramazan 14, 1429

KOHAT, Sept 14: Four security personnel were injured when militants opened firing on a military convoy in Sheni Kalay area of Darra Adamkhel on Sunday.

Officials said that the convoy was carrying food for the security personnel when militants suddenly opened firing on it from the nearby village. As a result Havaldar Lal Rasheed and sepoys Aziz, Mehran and Vaqar received injuries. They were shifted to combined military hospital in Kohat where condition of Aziz was stated to be critical.

The security forces also retaliated but no casualties or property damage was reported from the other side.

BODIES’ RETRIEVAL: Authorities failed to retrieve the bodies of three security personnel from the mountains of Bostikhel area on the sixth day of their killing by militants on Sunday.

The militants had informed the authorities through back channel about the exact place where the dead bodies were lying. But the authorities failed to find them as they could not search the whole area due to presence of militants.

PRISONERS SHIFTED: Authorities shifted on Sunday 21 militants including the deputy of Baitullah Mehsud to Peshawar Central Prison for security reasons, district jail officials confirmed.

These militants were being kept in Kohat district jail after their arrest during the military operation in Hangu district during August.

The deputy of Baitullah Mehsud, Maulvi Rafiuddin, whose release orders were issued by the anti terrorism court judge, Ayub Khan, on September 9 was re-arrested under 40 Frontier Crimes Regulations on September 12 along with other two top commanders.

Their re-arrest orders were issued by the political agent of Orakzai Agency, Kamran Zeb, minutes before their release from the district prison.

Maulvi Rafiuddin was arrested along with six other high profile leaders of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan while patrolling the Hangu-Thall Highway by the police and security forces from Doaba on August 10. They are wanted for heinous crimes like kidnapping, killing government employees and security personnel and challenging the writ of the state.