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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 08 PESHAWAR 000146 
 
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E.O. 12958: DECL:  7/9/2019 
TAGS: PTER MOPS PGOV PK
SUBJECT: FATA AND NWFP:  WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 26 
- JULY 2 
 
REF: ISLAMABAD 1464 
 
CLASSIFIED BY: Lynne Tracy, Principal Officer, U.S. Consulate 
Peshawar, Department of State. 
REASON: 1.4 (d) 
Introduction 
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¶1. (C) In North Waziristan agency (NWA), a series of escalating 
militant ambushes of Pakistan military convoys foreshadowed a 
declaration by NWA's principal indigenous militant commander 
that the February 2008 NWA peace agreement was no longer in 
effect (reftel).  Fighting in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) 
diminished over the week as Pakistani military forces shifted 
their focus to NWA.  Potentially significant in the SWA 
fighting, however, were repeated (if low-casualty) indirect fire 
attacks launched against Pakistani military forces from Ahmadzai 
Wazir areas of SWA.  These attacks implied that in SWA as in 
NWA, the Pakistani military might have to face other enemies in 
its upcoming operation in addition to Baitullah Mehsud's 
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). 
 
¶2. (C) Military operations in the Malakand division continued at 
a similar pace to the previous week.  In Swat, military forces 
continued search operations in various areas and launched a 
three-day clearing operation against what officials said was the 
militants' "final strongpoint" in Swat.  In Buner, fighting 
began again after a lull, as security forces pushed into the 
mountainous eastern part of the district where militants fleeing 
the initial operation had taken shelter.  A mass-casualty 
bombing and the murder of a soldier by militants in areas of 
Buner previously considered "secured" may dampen displaced Buner 
residents' enthusiasm for returning to their home district. 
Search operations also continued in Lower Dir; in Upper Dir, 
fighting between a local lashkar and militants continued.  The 
army's operation in Bajaur drew to a close, as a major commander 
surrendered and a jirga of two minor tribes agreed to the 
28-point program to which the largely pro-government Salarzai 
had previously agreed. 
 
¶3. (C) Sectarian violence in Kurram agency, present throughout 
the previous two weeks, reached a crescendo over the reporting 
period; a ceasefire announced by Sunni and Shi'a leaders at the 
end of the period seemed to be less a result of settlement of 
the issues than of "combat fatigue."  Sectarian tit-for-tat 
killings also continued in Dera Ismail Khan, albeit at a reduced 
rate vice previous weeks.  Internecine tensions also touched off 
a round of fighting in Khyber agency, as militants associated 
with Mangal Bagh's Lashkar-i-Islam (LI) assassinated a prominent 
leader of a tribe that has repeatedly clashed with LI, prompting 
a retaliatory operation by the Frontier Corps. 
 
 
NWFP - Malakand Division 
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¶4. (SBU) The following incidents have occurred in the Malakand 
Division of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP), where the 
Pakistani government has been conducting combat operations since 
the last week of April.  Malakand Division includes the 
districts of Malakand, Lower Dir, Upper Dir, Chitral, Swat, 
Shangla, and Buner. 
 
June 26, Swat:  Search and cordon operations were carried out in 
Jabbar Kalle.  Security forces reportedly neutralized 5 
improvised explosive devices, destroyed one tunnel and one 
militant bunker.  Militants attacked Bagh Derai and Sakhra. 
Reports state that the attack was repulsed, leaving one soldier 
injured.  Security forces also destroyed two houses and five 
shops owned by alleged militant commanders. 
 
June 26, Upper Dir:  Militants attacked security forces in the 
Shot Kas area with heavy weapons.  Security forces claim to have 
killed 2 militants. 
 
June 26, Malakand:  The body of an Awami National Party (ANP) 
activist was found in a field in the Sakhakot area. 
 
June 27, Swat:  Security forces shelled suspected militants 
areas in Charbagh and Kabal.  They also established a check 
 
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point at Keel Kandao, the border area linking Swat and Buner. 
In clearance operations in Thana and Tutan Banda, two soldiers 
were injured in an exchange of gunfire.  Security forces seized 
a Parado Jeep, six walkie-talkie sets, one satellite 
communication set, four improvised explosive devices, six camera 
flash guns, weapons literature, explosives and a VHF/FM 
transmitter in Garai. 
 
June 27, Buner:  Security forces claim to have taken control of 
all routes into Buner and to have established check points at 
the Swat-Buner border near Karakar Pass. 
 
June 27, Upper Dir:  Reports state that four militants were 
killed and five wounded in fighting with the lashkar.  Security 
forces shelled suspected militant hideouts in Midan. 
 
June 27, Lower Dir:  Security forces claim to have recovered 
arms, ammunition and equipment and to have killed 4 militants 
and injured several other militants.  In Maidan, a jirga agreed 
to cooperate with security forces in combating militants in the 
area.  In the village of Amirabad, security forces destroyed the 
home of a suspected militant.  In Chakdara, security forces 
raided a hujra, arresting four suspected militants. 
 
June 27, Shangla:  Security forces established a full curfew for 
an indefinite period of time. 
 
June 28, Swat:  Security forces claim to have arrested two local 
militant commanders and a suicide bomber trainer and to have 
recovered an explosive-laden car and a rickshaw from the Kokarai 
area.  Security forces also claim to have confiscated arms, 
ammunition and explosive devices from a graveyard in Garai. 
Continued shelling in Mingora injured a suspected militant. 
Security forces also destroyed houses and a shop owned by 
suspected militants. 
 
June 28, Lower Dir:  Security forces destroyed 12 houses of 
suspected militants and claimed to have arrested 8 suspected 
militants and seized arms and ammunition.  In Adenzai, security 
forces raided a house of a suspected militant and recovered 
hundreds of sacks of wheat and other goods stolen from the World 
Food Program.  In the Maidan area, three civilians were killed 
and five injured when a mortar shell hit their home. 
 
June 29, Swat:  Security forces claim to have killed eight 
militants in the Khwazakhela area of Swat in a raid on a 
compound.  Security forces also destroyed the homes of two 
suspected militant commanders near Mingora. 
 
June 29, Buner:  A bomb in the main business center of Sawari 
killed at least five people and injured nine. The Pakistani 
military claims they are consolidating their positions in 
Dangram, Kukarai, and Jambil. 
 
June 29, Upper Dir:  Reports state that a tribal lashkar killed 
two Afghan militants, captured 15 militants and destroyed 30 
homes of suspected militant supporters. 
 
June 30, Swat:  Security forces claim that in Biha valley, 
militants killed 18 of their own wounded soldiers.  In a new 
effort to secure the Shah Dheri region of central Swat (near 
Kabal), security forces claim to have killed 16 militants and 
admitted the loss of three soldiers killed and eight others 
wounded. 
 
June 30, Lower Dir:  Security forces state that they killed two 
suspected militants and arrested 20 others.  Press reports state 
that a tribal lashkar was conducting house to house searches, 
and had destroyed 15 militant hideouts. 
 
June 30, Buner:  Security forces launched a new offensive 
against militants in Chaghorzai, targeting the area with 
artillery.  A beheaded body of an army soldier was found in 
front of a destroyed police station in Pir Baba. 
 
July 1, Swat:  Five soldiers were injured in clashes during 
 
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clearing operations in the Shah Dheri area.  Security forces 
also reported that they had neutralized four improvised 
explosive devices and destroyed four suspected militants' 
houses.  Police report they have resumed patrolling in Swat. 
 
July 1, Upper Dir:  Two tribesmen from the laskhar were killed 
in fighting with militants in the Doog Darra area. 
 
July 2, Swat:  Security forces claimed to have killed 17 
militants in ongoing operations in Shah Dheri and to have killed 
six militants and arrested five others in search operations in 
other parts of the district.  Security forces also claim to have 
destroyed dozens of suspected militant houses and recovered 
small weapons caches in the Bara Banda, Qambar, Nawan Kallay, 
and Damani areas. 
 
July 2, Upper Dir:  Lashkar in the Doog Darra area claim to have 
killed two militants including a militant leader, Maulana 
Naeemullah. Three lashkar members died 
 
NWFP - Hazara Division 
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¶5. (SBU) The following incidents have occurred in the Hazara 
Division of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) according to 
press and consulate contacts.  Hazara Division includes the 
districts of Abbottabad, Battagram, Haripur, Kohistan and 
Mansehra. 
 
June 29, Battagram:  Militants are demanding that Hindus either 
convert to Islam or pay a tax (jizya) in order to remain in the 
area. 
 
 
NWFP - Peshawar Division 
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¶6.      (SBU) The following incidents have occurred in the 
Peshawar Division of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) 
according to press and consulate contacts.  Peshawar Division 
includes the districts of Peshawar, Nowshera, and Charsadda. 
 
June 26, Peshawar:  Kidnappers of a local surgeon demanded Rs 50 
million in ransom for the doctor's release.  A girls' school in 
Matani was bombed by three masked men.  Suspected militants 
threw a grenade at the Dalazak Road police post in Sharpur. 
 
June 26, Nowshera:  National Highways and Motorway police 
defused a bomb on the Grand Trunk road at a gas station.  The 
bomb was hidden in a fire extinguisher. 
 
June 28, Nowshera:  A Swat militant commander was arrested at a 
bus stop and taken in for interrogation.  Police raided a house 
in Akbarpura and recovered a kidnapped man. 
 
June 28, Charsadda:  Police claim to have arrested Mohmand 
militant commander Qari Roohullah from a mosque in Shabqadar. 
Qari Roohullah is suspected to behind the bombing of saint 
shrines in the NWFP. 
 
June 28, Peshawar:  Police arrested two alleged militant 
commanders and militant commander Majnoon was killed by 
unidentified gunmen in the Board Bazaar.  A low-level employee 
of the Intelligence Bureau was kidnapped from his home by 
suspected militants. 
 
June 29, Peshawar:  Law enforcement agencies defused a car bomb 
filled with more than 60 kilograms on Afridi Road. 
 
June 30, Peshawar:  Armed men riding motorcycles attacked fired 
on a rickshaw going to the Afghan Colony, killing one.  A 
municipal inspector was killed outside of his office by unknown 
men. 
 
July 1, Peshawar:  Police claimed to have stopped suspected 
militants from entering Peshawar in an explosive laden car.  The 
 
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suspected militants were stopped at a checkpoint on Kohat road 
and opened fire on the police in an attempt to escape.  The 
driver of the car blew himself up; his accomplices escaped. 
 
July 1, Nowshera:  At least one person was killed and four 
others injured when suspected militants attacked the Nowshera 
cantonment with four rockets. 
 
July 2, Peshawar:  Two policemen on a routine patrol were killed 
and two others injured when a police vehicle was targeted in the 
Chushtiababd area by a remote controlled bomb.  Another small 
roadside bomb in the Mattani area was defused 
 
NWFP - Kohat Division 
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¶7.      (SBU) The following incidents have occurred in the Kohat 
Division of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) according to 
press and consulate contacts.  Kohat Division includes the 
districts of Kohat, Karak, and Hangu. 
 
June 26, Karak:  A suspected kidnapper was reportedly killed by 
local police forces. 
 
June 27, Kohat: Militants fired three rockets at Kohat city. 
Security forces retaliated with the shelling of suspected 
militant hideouts in the mountains of Darra Adam Khel. 
 
June 28, Kohat:  Security forces claim to have arrested four 
suspected militants at a check point, confiscating 47 mortar 
shells, 52 head fuses, 15 tail cartridges, and 66 canisters of 
explosives. 
 
June 28, Hangu:  Unidentified gunmen kidnapped the naib nazim of 
Thrall Union Council.  Hangu police arrested four people 
suspected of trying to smuggle weapons from Orakzai into Hangu 
and confiscated 48 rocket shells, 30 bombs, five kilograms of 
explosives, and automatic weapons. 
 
July 1, Kohat:  A bomb was defused at the Kharmato Girls Primary 
School.  A police officer was injured when suspected militants 
attacked a police van on the Indus Highway near Kohat; in 
response, police arrested twelve suspected militants in various 
parts of the district. 
 
July 1, Hangu:  Suspected militants attacked the Mamokhwara 
check post, killing one police officer.  The police claim to 
have killed six of the attackers.  A police contingent sent from 
Doaba to Mamokhwara was attacked by suspected militants in the 
Jawara area; seven police were injured. 
 
NWFP - Bannu Division 
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¶8. (SBU) The following incidents have occurred in the Bannu 
Division of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) according to 
press and consulate contacts.  Bannu Division includes the 
districts of Bannu and Lakki Marwat. 
 
June 26, Lakki Marwat:  The police claim to have arrested 225 
criminals and 800 suspects and seized 10 hand grenades, five 
AK-47s, twelve rifles, fifteen shotguns, twenty five pistols, 
4,340 bullets, and eleven kilograms of hashish over the previous 
three weeks. 
 
June 27, Bannu:  Suspected militants using explosives destroyed 
a digital telephone exchange.  Two motorbike riders kidnapped a 
Wazir tribesman in the Habibkhel Police Station's jurisdiction. 
 
June 28, Bannu:  Militants fired rockets at a police station in 
Miryan.  No injuries were reported. 
 
June 28, Lakki Marwat:  Security forces opened fire on a 
passenger bus when it did not stop, injuring a woman and her 
child. 
 
 
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July 1, Bannu:  Security forces claimed to have killed five 
militants when the militants attacked a check post near Hindi 
Khel. 
 
July 2, Lakki Marwat:  Police claim to have arrested a would-be 
suicide bomber in an explosives-laden vehicle in the Tajazai 
area.  Police also arrested 70 suspects in raids throughout the 
district. 
 
NWFP - Dera Ismail Khan Division 
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¶9. (SBU) The following incidents have occurred in the Dera 
Ismail Khan Division of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) 
according to press and consulate contacts.  Dera Ismail Khan 
Division includes the districts of D.I. Khan and Tank. 
 
June 28, DI Khan:  Unidentified gunman killed two brothers in 
the Dhodawali area.  A man was stabbed to death in the 
jurisdiction of the Prova police station. 
 
June 28, Tank:  Armed men killed two people in the Jamal Awan 
area of Tank. 
 
June 29, Tank:  Security forces claim to have killed two 
militants, including a commander.  Security forces also arrested 
at least five suspected militants from the Mohallah 
Khadarianwala, Sabir Abad, and Grah Buddha areas of Tank.  The 
body of another militant was found in Pathar village. 
 
July 1, DI Khan:  A remote control bomb exploded near a police 
van, killing one civilian and injuring another. 
 
July 2, DI Khan:  A grenade was thrown at a butcher's shop in 
Gali Gul Zaman, killing two people and injuring five others.  No 
one has claimed responsibility for the attack. 
 
Northern FATA 
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¶10. (SBU) The following is a roundup of incidents of 
talibanization and government and community response in the 
Bajaur, Mohmand, and Khyber Agencies of the Federally 
Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). 
 
June 26, Khyber:  Presumed militants desecrated the graves of 
four relatives of Federal Minister for Zakat and Ushr, Pir 
Noorul Haq Qadri, in the Peerokhel graveyard.  These relatives 
had been killed in an ambush near Jamrud in May 2008. 
 
June 26, Bajaur:  Security forces shelled suspected militant 
positions in Nawagai tehsil, and reported killing five militants 
and injuring three others.  Security forces, backed by mortars 
and tanks, claim to have regained control of a government fort 
and secured the Chinar area, where militants had allegedly set 
up bunkers.  In search operations security forces claim to have 
recovered anti-tank mines, mortar shells, hand grenades, rocket 
launchers, bomb making materials, AK-47s and Afghan currency. 
 
June 27, Mohmand:  Suspected militants attacked pro-government 
Mohmand tribesmen.  In coordination with security forces, local 
tribesmen repulsed the attack.  No casualties were reported. 
 
June 27, Bajaur:  A jirga of Chamarkand and Kamangara tribesmen 
signed onto the 28-point agreement that the political 
administration has previously signed with other Bajaur tribes. 
Separately, the Bajaur political agent ordered all Afghan 
refugees to leave the agency within three days. 
 
June 28, Mohmand:  Two children were injured when unidentified 
miscreants threw a grenade into the house of a local tribesman. 
Elders in Ambar tehsil have raised and armed a lashkar in 
response to local militants. 
 
June 28, Bajaur: Security forces claim to have killed four 
militants and destroyed the homes of several suspected militants 
 
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in Nawagai tehsil.  Security forces state they are targeting 
suspected militant bunkers and hideouts in Charmang, Hasham, 
Cheenar, Babara, and Manogai. 
 
June 29, Khyber:  Security forces claim to have killed at least 
13 suspected militants in attacks on militant hideouts in the 
Bazaar Zakha Khel area.  The press reported that seven people 
were killed and three others injured in shelling in the Sra Saga 
Bazaar in Zakha Khel. 
 
June 29, Mohmand:  Two officials were injured when suspected 
militants attacked their vehicle in the Shamsha area of Khawezai 
Baizai tehsil. 
 
June 30, Khyber:  Two Afghan border security guards, four women 
and two children were killed when a suicide bomber coming from 
Pakistan and dressed in a burqa blew himself up at the 
Pakistan/Afghanistan border. 
 
June 30, Bajaur:  News reports state a local militant commander 
and close aide to Mualana Faqir Mohammad surrendered to the Khar 
Assistant Political Agent. 
 
July 1, Bajaur:  A school in the Fajja areas was destroyed by 
suspected militants. 
 
July 1, Khyber:  A key pro-government tribal elder, Malik Guli 
Shah Kuki Khel,  his guard, and his driver were killed by 
suspected militants in the Tedi Bazaar.  In response, security 
forces claimed to have killed at least 28 suspected militants, 
including a commander, in overnight Frontier Corps operations 
against Lashkar-i-Islam (LI) in the Tirah valley.  LI admitted 
only eight casualties. 
 
Southern FATA 
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¶11. (SBU) The following is a roundup of incidents of 
talibanization and government and community response in the 
Orakzai, Kurram, and North and South Waziristan Agencies of the 
Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Frontier Regions 
south of the Khyber Agency: 
 
June 26, FR Kohat:  Security forces arrested 42 suspected 
militants, three of which are suspected bomb makers.  A 
suspected militant commander was claimed to have been killed and 
two others injured when security forces launched a search 
operation in the Turk Ismailkhel area of Shindhand. 
 
June 26, Kurram:  Suspected Shi'a militants fired rockets at 
Sadda city and its suburbs.  Three women and two men were killed 
and eight others injured, including four children. 
 
June 26, North Waziristan:  A security forces' convoy, heading 
from Miranshah to Bannu, was attacked with a roadside bomb. 
Five soldiers were reportedly killed with 16 also injured.  In 
retaliation, security forces shelled suspected militant hideouts 
in Miram Shah and Mir Ali.  Another roadside bomb detonated 
against the same convoy near Nowrak (in Mir Ali tehsil), 
reportedly leaving five soldiers injured.  In retaliation, 
security forces shelled the areas near the abandoned Chashma 
flour mills, destroying the mills completely.  A bomb planted 
near a check post in Mir Ali was reportedly defused by locals. 
 
June 26, South Waziristan:  Pakistani Air Forces planes bombed 
suspected militant hideouts in the Mehsud areas of the agency, 
and the Pakistani military reported they had killed 20 
militants. 
 
June 27, Kurram:  Reports state that at least 28 people were 
killed and 55 others injured in Lower Kurram in sectarian 
fighting between Sunni and Shi'a tribesmen, which involved 
suspected militants. 
 
June 27, North Waziristan:  Security forces opened fire on a 
truck, injuring two suspected militants when the truck did not 
 
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stop. 
 
June 27, FR Tank:  Security forces destroyed the Jandola bazaar 
and its 700 shops and hotels, claiming the razing was for 
security reasons. 
 
June 27, South Waziristan:  The Pakistani military claimed to 
have killed 15 militants in airstrikes in the Makeen area.  The 
airstrikes targeted militant offices, a training facility and 
arms and ammunition dumps in Ladha and Makeen.  Suspected 
militants fired six rockets at a security forces' camp in Salian 
and a paramilitary fort in Wana. 
 
June 28, Kurram:  Three tribesmen were killed in fighting 
between tribes.  The fighting continues in the Lower Kurram 
areas of Minging, Makhai Zai, Balish Khel, Khwar Kale, and 
Sangeena.  Militants attacked a security check post using 
rockets in Karaman.  No casualties were reported. 
 
June 28, North Waziristan:  Reports state that between 100 to 
150 militants attacked an army convoy travelling from Qaza 
Madakhel to Miranshah with improvised explosive devices (IEDs), 
rockets, heavy machine guns grenades and mortars at Wacha Bibi. 
Over 25 solders, including a lieutenant colonel, were killed and 
35 were injured.  The Pakistani military claims to have killed 
ten militants when helicopter gunships retaliated by targeting 
suspected militant positions. 
 
June 28, South Waziristan:  The Pakistani military claims to 
have killed 12 militants and injured seven others during the 
bombing of Ladha tehsil.  Two soldiers were killed in Wana and 
another soldier was killed as militants mortared Tanai Fort. 
 
June 29, FR Kohat:  Security forces arrested six suspected 
militants after exchanging fire in the Akhorwal area of Darra 
Adam Khel.  Security forces also bombarded the areas around Tor 
Chappar village with artillery. 
 
June 29, Kurram: Shi'a leaders claimed that 23 Sunnis and two 
Shi'a were killed in fighting.  Rockets were fired by unknown 
people at the Parachinar outskirts. 
 
June 29, North Waziristan:  A spokesman for NWA militant 
commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur announced that the February 2008 NWA 
peace agreement was no longer valid and that militants would 
attack Pakistani military forces in NWA.  Army helicopter 
gunships attacked suspected militant positions in the town of 
Madda Khel.  Security forces claim that five militants were 
killed. 
 
June 29, South Waziristan:  Pakistani press reported that in the 
village of Kaloosha, at least three civilians were killed and 
seven wounded when mortar shells landed near a mosque. 
 
June 30, FR Bannu:  A security official was killed and two 
others injured in Janikhel when suspected militants ambushed a 
military convoy on a routine patrol.  Suspected militants fired 
rockets at a Frontier Constabulary fort. 
 
June 30, North Waziristan:  Security forces began bombing 
suspected positions of Hafiz Gul Bahadur.  Security forces based 
in Dattakhel and Gharlamay military camps continued shelling 
suspected militant positions.  Militants circulated fliers 
announcing they had banned meetings of more than five people and 
warning residents against volunteering as Khasadars. 
 
June 30, South Waziristan:  The Pakistani military claimed that 
Baitullah Mehsud had declined a plea by parents of children 
training as suicide bombers that those children be returned. 
 
July 1, North Waziristan:  The Pakistani military distributed 
pamphlets ensuring the GOP would abide by the signed peace 
agreement and asked the people of North Waziristan to support 
the security forces.  Press reported five people were reportedly 
killed in bombardment by an Army helicopter. 
 
 
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July 1, Kurram:  20 people, including a police officer, were 
killed and 42 people were injured in sectarian clashes in Lower 
Kurram.  Sunni and Shi'a elders announced that they had 
concluded a ceasefire, however.  In a separate incident, local 
police intercepted suspected militants trying to enter Kurram 
agency from Orakzai; a policeman and two militants were killed 
and six police and an unknown number of militants injured in the 
ensuing firefight. 
 
July 1, Orakzai:  Reports state that 150 Khasadar and Levy 
personnel have left their jobs after a deadline set by 
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).  The TTP threatened punitive 
action if Khassadar and Levy personnel and other government 
workers continued working for the GOP. 
 
July 2, North Waziristan:  Militant local commander, Mullah 
Nasir, offered to remain out of the fighting if security forces 
refrained from military action against militants in the Wana 
region. 
 
July 2, FR Tank:  Militants fired three rockets at Jandola Fort; 
no injuries were reported. 
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