15 FC soldiers killed in NWA, Laid to rest in Khyber agency

Ashrafuddin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: The fifteen Frontier Constabulary (FC) soldiers who were
kidnapped from Mulazai FC fort and later killed in Shewa tehsil of Mir Ali
subdivision in North Waziristan were laid to rest in Mulagori area of
Jamrud subdivision in Khyber agency, family and official sources said
on Thursday.

The sources said that militants had abducted the fifteen Frontier
Constabulary personnel from Mulazai FC fort on gunpoint on December,
30th last year and were taken to unidentified location. All the slain
soldiers were belonging from the Mulagori village in Jamrud tehsil in
Khyber agency.

The dead bodies, who said to be bullet riddled, were found on Thursday
in a Nulla in Shewa area of Mir Ali tehsil, the sources said. Those
killed in the militants captivity were identified as Lance Naik Rajid
Khan, Aziz Ali,Naib Subedar Ali Mir, Bacha Khan, Amjid Ali, Shakeel
Gul, Nisar Gul, Muhammad Arif Khan,Bawar Khan, Jan Afzal, Talib Khan,
Zabit Khan, Aslam, Alamgir Khan and Zahid Khan. The dead bodies of the
slain soldiers were brought to Peshawar Hayatabad where the funeral
prayer was offered at around 7:30 pm. The coffins were later
dispatched to Mulagori area in Jamrud and laid to rest, sources said.

When the dead bodies of the slain soldiers were reached to Mulagori
village the whole area people including women and children broke into
tears and were not able to tell something about the incident.
On the repeated insist of this scribe, Tajid Khan, the brother of
slain Rajid Khan,said that his brother was the lone bread earner for
his family. He said that he did not know what he will do with the
children of his brother and his other family members as he don’t have
any source of income to buy things for them.
Another Mulagori villager, who requested anonymity, told The News that
it was such a big incident which he had never seen in his fifty-five
years of his life. He told in a screaming voice that fifteen families
have lost their bread earners, however, he was proud on his villager’s
scarifies for the sack of country.


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