Search for ‘terror tunnels’ in North Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH, Sept 6: Security forces on Tuesday mounted a search operation in Zoi Naray and Kund Gher area of North Waziristan Agency after cordoning off several residential compounds near the Afghan border, sources said.
Regular and paramilitary forces in collaboration with tribal elders took part in the operation. Until late Tuesday evening there were no reports of any arrests.
An official told Dawn that the operation was launched following reports about the existence of tunnels and bunkers in the hilly area adjacent to Afghanistan’s Paktika province.
The official cited intelligence reports as saying that these tunnels and bunkers were being used for terrorist activities in the area.
These facilities were once used by the Mujahideen in their battle against Soviet troops in Afghanistan.
EXPLOSIVES DEFUSED: Paramilitary forces defused four explosive devices in Tapai village near Miramshah.
Officials said that miscreants had planted the devices near a tube-well in Tapai village. Local people informed Colonel Commandant Tochi Scouts, Waheed Bangash, about their presence.
A special squad of the Tochi Scouts defused all the devices.
SUSPECTS SURRENDERED: The inhabitants of Borakhel tribe handed over to the agency’s political administration two persons who belonged to the tribe of the alleged killers of a tehsildar and two other officials.
The authorities warned the tribe to surrender the four men accused of gunning down tehsildar Iftikhar Ahmad Khattak, a Moharir and a Khassadar in Miramshah bazaar on Monday.
An official said that the administration had asked the tribe to produce two more persons under the collective responsibility act of the Frontier Crimes Regulation.