LANDI KOTAL/PESHAWAR, Dec 14: Two volunteers of a recently formed peace committee were killed and three others received injuries when militants attacked a checkpost in Shalobar area of Khyber Agency on Tuesday night.

Officials said that members of banned militant organisation Lashkar-i-Islam also abducted a khasadar after killing and injuring the tribal volunteers. Shalobar tribesmen had formed on Tuesday a peace committee comprising local volunteers, who established security checkposts in the area and also started joint patrolling with security forces. Farooq Khan, an administrative official, said that they were conducting raids and had plugged all the entry and exit points to locate the missing khasadar.

Meanwhile, two kukikhel tribesmen were critically injured when a time device exploded at a market in Tirah valley of the tribal region.

The kukikhel elders blamed the Taliban of Tariq Afridi group for the blast. Kukikhel volunteers recently flushed out Taliban and destroyed one of their important bases in Maylo area.

Meanwhile, police have confirmed killing of a commander of Lashkar-i-Islam and injuries to three other militants, who had clashed with law enforcers on the outskirt of Peshawar on Tuesday.

Peshawar SSP Tahir Ayub Khan told Dawn that Shahbaz, a commander of a splinter group of Lashkar-i-Islam, had sustained injuries in the encounter at Frontier Road and he succumbed to his wounds.

“His death was confirmed on Wednesday,” the SSP said and added that the militants had taken their injured colleagues with them while fleeing to the tribal region. He said that there was information about injuries to the militants but it was confirmed later.

He said that Frontier Road was located between settled and the tribal areas and militants had attacked police from the tribal side where law enforcers were not allowed to enter. They had to seek cooperation of Frontier Corps and political administration for any action against militants in tribal areas, he added.

“We have provided heavy weapons to police in the rural areas to counter the terrorist attacks and that is why movement of the anti-state elements has been restricted,” he claimed. — Dawn Report