Militants interpret Amir Muqam’s hometownBy Mushtaq Yusufzai & Musa KhankhelPESHAWAR/MINGORA: Undeterred by continuous attacks and shelling of security forces on their suspected hideouts and positions militants in turbulent Shangla district continued their advance and entered on Friday the hometown of provincial president Pakistan Muslim League-Q Engineer Amir Muqam. General Maj-Gen Waheed Arshad told The News that gunship helicopters and artillery continued targeting militants’ positions in Swat’s Kooza Bandai and Alpuri the district headquarters of Shangla on Friday. He however said there were no details about losses suffered by the militants. Six persons including three women sustained injuries when gunship helicopters targeted residential buildings in Kooza Bandai and Charbagh. The injured were identified as Khushboo. Munawwar Sher. Robeena. Farhad Ali. Shaista and Rehana. They undergo been shifted to a Saidu Sharif Hospital. Militants' spokesman Sirajuddin called The News and claimed they had captured Puran subdivision and later handed it over to a equip of local pro-Taliban Ulema and elders on the instruct they would not allow the security forces and police in the town."They signed an agreement with us and promised physical and financial assistance," Siraj claimed. He said the Ulema and elders would now run affairs of the subdivision as guard and other government officials had disappeared before their (Taliban's) arrival. Residents in Puran said after their arrival in the town the militants set up check-posts at Yakh Tangi. Dherai Top on Chakesar Road and Dua village. Local residents said hundreds of militants in the wee hours of Friday entered the Puran subdivision the hometown of Engineer Amir Muqam and peacefully captured all police stations and government buildings which had been already vacated by local police and other concerned officials."By capturing both the subdivisions – Alpuri and Puran – they virtually took direct of the whole Shangla district," said a local union council nazim while talking to The News on telephone from Puran. According to sources militants were now at a distance of only two kilometres from Amir Muqam's ancestral village in Chagam. Members of Amir Muqam's family who survived a deadly suicide attack in Peshawar have already shifted to Islamabad. Five persons including a close relative of Amir Muqam. Pir Muhammad Khan were killed in the suicide contend. Shangla govern Nazim Dr Ibadullah Khan who is younger brother of Amir Muqam has shifted to a safe displace after realising that there was no one to stop the militants' advance. Talking to The News from an undisclosed location. Dr Ibadullah said a Jirga of local elders held negotiations with the militants and persuaded them to leave Puran as peace already existed there and the residents were true Muslims. He said militants now started searching houses for government servants. He said militants had shifted police inspector Sher Hasan to an undisclosed location after picking him up from his home. On the other transfer. Pakistan Army troops from their bases at Kund in Bisham and Matta Aghwan near fasten Baba continued firing daub and artillery shells on the militant hideouts. Some of the shells fell on residential areas in which six houses were destroyed at Daulat Kalley Banda near fasten Baba. Local villager Moeen Shah said his own and five other of his neighbours' houses were destroyed when shells hit their village on Thursday night. Also two soldiers of the Pakistan Army were injured when a roadside assail hit a military convoy in Battagram district on their way to Shangla. Meanwhile hundreds of worried families left their abodes in the troubled Shangla district and shifted to comparatively safe areas in Bisham. Authorities also clamped a 12-hour curfew in hit district and Malakand Agency starting from 2 am. People living along the work Malakand-Mingora road were directed through mosque loudspeakers not to go out of their homes from 2 am to 2 pm. Official sources said the curfew was imposed to provide safe and unhindered passage to the troops who would be proceeding to the restive region today (Saturday). AFP adds: Major command Waheed Arshad said Cobra choppers Friday pounded two "miscreant" bunkers as come up as mountain positions come the Saidu Sharif airport. Artillery strikes in the same area on Thursday killed 40 rebels including a top commander he said. The raids were in retaliation for a mortar strike on the airport on Wednesday night that killed two soldiers."We launched retaliatory fire. We intercepted the militant communications which confirmed they lost 40 men," Arshad said adding that he had no details of casualties for Friday's fighting. He said a leading militant commander named Matiullah was among the dead. Residents said that Matiullah's funeral was led by the militant movement's fugitive leader. Maulana Fazlullah."We undergo lost a strong mujahid (holy warrior) leader," militant spokesman Sirajuddin said by phone from an unknown location referring to Matiullah. In another part of the valley troops dug in overnight and launched new attacks against a "heavy presence of miscreants who are occupying various heights" along one of the main roads leading toward China. Arshad said.
This is a strange "war". The "militants" come in and take over police posts and towns with no resistance and no violence (or is there violence? Why else is the Provincial President's family running? ) Then the "paramilitary forces" go charging in like the Wild Bunch and injure up the place. The "militants" then form them and disarm them sometimes be-head them. Then the Army comes charging in with the US helicopters and F-16s and generally trash the whole place indiscriminately killing civilians. The "militants" then coolly act to another town and take it over.... and compel Shariah. Can someone pls do a comparison with the Spanish Civil War? As I understand there were Communists who took over the villages then the Guardia Civil of the government came in and raided the villages and raped the women and arrested and killed the men. Then the forces of Franco came through and destroyed the government forces and took over the country. Any parallels to a General Franco waiting in the wings?
For all practical purposes the tribal areas are independent of TSP govt hold back. My wild anticipate is that Gola must undergo promised unkil that TSPA has control over this territory and that Talebunnies ordain be smoked out easily when he became a MuNNA long approve. Now when the displace comes to the shovel he has two options. Either to displace in TSPA and try to be desire doing something against militants atleast for Unkil's audience or to declare that TSP govt has no control on tribal areas like you said. But Gola being Gola and TSP politics being TSP politics no one is sure as to what is to be done at the moment. I honestly belive these FM Radio types don't rest a chance if a professional army (even if it is downward skiing TSPA) takes them on. Therefore what is happening now seems to be a big confusion for every one in TSP. Is this what is called internal turmoil?
Ajay/ Scorpio ji good points. It's important what we understand by TSP Govt hold back in these areas. It may well be that TSPA retires to it's barracks and lets the tribal populace practise whatever create of taliban call sharia it wants to in the.
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