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Decisive action in Bajaur likely, Khar under curfew

* 16 Taliban killed by security forces
* Charmang lashkar refuses to operate against Taliban over government’s lack of co-operation

KHAR/SWAT: By clamping curfew in Khar, headquarters of Bajaur Agency, security forces have started preparations for decisive action against Taliban, Online reported on Wednesday.

AFP quoted a security official as saying a curfew was imposed in Khar as part of the ongoing military operation.

All shops and offices were closed, the roads were empty, and all residents were ordered to remain indoors.

AP quoted government official Jamil Khan as saying fresh troops were flowing into Khar along with tanks and artillery. Khan said artillery attacks overnight killed four Taliban in the Charmang area.

Security forces pounded Taliban hideouts in Bajaur Agency on Wednesday, killing at least 16 Taliban, officials said.

“Troops fired artillery and mortars onto hideouts of Taliban in Loyesam, Rashakai, Chinar and Babra areas, killing 10 and wounding eight others,” a security official told AFP.

Six other Taliban were killed by helicopter gunships in the same area, he added.

APP said several Taliban hideouts were destroyed.

Security forces and political administration of Bajaur Agency destroyed the houses of two important Taliban commanders in Khar and Yousaf Abad on Tuesday. They used dynamite to blow up the house of Commander Iqbal at Khar and the house of Commander Liaqat Yousaf at Yousaf Abad.

Meanwhile, police said suspected Taliban killed four people, including a female politician of the Awami National Party (ANP), in Swat.

Masked gunmen barged into the house of the ANP local councillor and shot her and her husband dead while they slept, police official Abdul Malik told AFP.

APP reported that security forces detained several Taliban during a search operation in Darra Adam Khel.

Lashkar refuses: A tribal lashkar in Charmang in Bajaur Agency refused to co-operate with security forces in operating against Taliban. Online quoted a private TV channel as saying the lashkar took the stance that the government did not co-operate with them. The lashkar had torched eight Taliban hideouts over the last five days. agencies/staff report

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