Posts Tagged ‘ khyber agency ’

Displaced from Tirah

Mar 2013

English | اردو Nearly fifty thousand people have been displaced from Tirah Valley in Khyber agency following clashes between the between the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) and the government-allied organization, Ansar-ul-Islam (AI). While Khyber Agency’s political office put the estimate at 50,000, unofficial sources doubled it, saying almost 100,000 locals had been forced to migrate out of...
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The Forgotten Battle for Tirah Valley

Mar 2013

Thousands of men, women and children have fled Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency, after the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) successfully gained control of the area last week. Ibrahim Shinwari reports on the battle, and the lives, forgotten by a Pakistan in the grips of election fever. Ali Akbar Shalobar, 35, was left with no other...
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Burying us Alive in Bara

Burying us Alive in Bara | Rashid Khan Aurakzai

It is time for the military to own up to its mistakes. Tell us what is going on. Anything less is political suicide.
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Protests Against Army Operations in FATA | Q&A

By M.A.
Jan 2013

Inspired by the Hazaras of Quetta, Pashtuns convened in front of the Governor’s House in Peshawar with the bodies of 18 people killed in an army operation carried out in Bara, a sub-division of Khyber Agency. The bodies have since been confiscated by the army and police, but the protestors continue their sit-in, this...
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