Khar (Pak), Aug 14: In the wake of air strikes over the past few days, militants in the Bajaur tribal area in Pakistan are reportedly restricting people from leaving the area, in a bid to use them as human shields from air attacks.

People have been leaving Bajaur for safety over the past few week, and going to Dir, Peshawar and other areas in NWFP.

Air force planes continue to bomb different areas in Bajaur Agency, even as 24 people, including some militants, were killed yesterday.

Local people said militants had stopped families in Mamond tehsil from leaving the area. “Militants forced the fleeing tribesmen to stay back. The men were given Kalashnikovs and asked to keep their women in homes,” the Dawn quoted one Mamond as saying.

Khar, Aug 6 : The Pakistan unit of the Taliban – the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has reportedly threatened to launch attacks in Karachi, particularly the MQM offices and its leaders, and that it could take the control of the port city anytime it wanted if the party chief Altaf Hussain, who stays in London, didn’t immediately end his kingdom there.

A TTP spokesman said that the militant outfit was “prepared to wage jihad to counter US and NATO forces in the Tribal Areas”, and had established anti-aircraft “missile systems” along the Pak-Afghan border for this purpose.

“The MWM must immediately end his kingdom in Karachi, as it was ripe for the Taliban to gain control of the city,” the Daily Times quoted the spokesman as saying.

Khar (Pakistan), July 9 : Extremists belonging to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have reportedly taken over two girls primary schools in the Bajaur Agency, and announced to convert them into m

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