KHAR, March 8: Security forces on Saturday defused a time bomb near a private clinic in Bajaur Agency, sources in the political administration said.

According to the sources, the security forces foiled a bid to explode a private clinic adjacent to the Agency Headquarters Hospital. The sources said that the bomb had been planted by unidentified ‘miscreants’.

Meanwhile, a teacher was abducted by unidentified men and was shifted to an unknown place, the sources said. Said Muhammad was kidnapped in Nawagai, some 30 kilometres from here, they added.