New Layer of Target Killing in Tribal Districts

BY-Salahuddin Salarzai

Mir Ali-Several cases of target killing and violence had reported in Tribal district and KPK- in a fresh incident of target killing in North Waziristan tribal district, two persons were shot dead in Mir Ali area on Friday. Official sources said unknown armed men shot dead two persons in Mir Ali sub-division. The district administration has launched the investigation into the incident.

The incidents of target killing have increased in Waziristan since the return of the temporarily displaced persons. Recently, the people of North Waziristan had staged a sit-in in protest against increasing incidents of target killing in the tribal district. In a separate incident in Ghulam Khan Tehsil of North Waziristan, one person was killed when two rival groups clashed over a land dispute. The district administration has arrested four persons after the clash and initiated investigations.

Last month several cases of target killing occur in Bajaur tribal district, unknown people killed Levies man Naib Subedar Sarfraz Khan by unknown men while he was performing his duty with a polio team in Badan, two women teachers and a minor girl by the unknown persons had shocked the locals,

On Thursday the Former head of banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan’s KP chapter, Maulana Ismail Darvesh, and his personal police guard was shot dead in Peshawar. Two bike riders fired shots at Darvish's car, leaving him and his police guard critically injured, according to police. The injured were taken to Lady Reading Hospital where doctors pronounced them dead. The guard was identified as Muhammad Ayub.

The attackers were wearing helmets, police said. The incident occurred in the limits of Phandu police station. Maulana Ismail Darvesh was the former head of the banned outfit’s KP chapter.

Police are investigating whether the murder was sectarian. Meanwhile, a tribal Lashkar demolished the house of a person and expelled his family from Mohmand tribal district on charges of getting his rival’s son killed through hired assassins. Hundreds of people from Safi tribe participated in the Lashkar which demolished the house of Haji Speen Khan in Sagi Bala area. On Thursday, Haji Speen Khan allegedly got Sher Rehman, the son of his rival, killed through hired assassins. The local people had also killed two of the hired assassins after Sher Rehman’s murder.

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