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Graffiti praises bombers in Mohmand Agency

Staff Report

GHALANAI: Suspected militants have scrawled graffiti in praise of suicide bombers and Taliban on rocks and walls near the Nakhai check post, some 35 kilometres from Mohmand agency headquarters Ghalanai, locals said.

Area residents said masked armed men came in two vehicles from the Safi tehsil of the agency and scrawled graffiti over rocks and walls in Pashto stating ‘Long live suicide bombers, the Taliban movement and Mohmand tigers’ in around 30 places. Militants also warned female teachers working in the area to wear veils. They asked policemen to vacate the Ghazi Baig checkpost.

The political authorities asked a 30-member jirga of the Halimzai tribe about the incidents, but the jirga members insisted that there were no terrorists in their area and people from Safi tehsil had painted the graffiti. The tribal authorities have asked people to explain why they allowed militants in their area, although they earlier pledged not to shelter them. Malik Sahibdar, a local, told Daily Times that a jirga of the Kamli Halimzai tribe would meet on Friday in the Ghazi Baig area to discuss what they would tell the political authorities in the backdrop of recent incidents. Militants in Mohmand Agency have so far kidnapped around ten soldiers of the Mohmand Rifles. Eight were freed, but two soldiers are still in their custody. The two soldiers were kidnapped on Sep 2 when they were going to Peshawar. The political administration has held several jirgas to secure their release, so far without success.

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