LANDIKOTAL(FATA): The security forces defused an explosive time device which was planted at the front of Fata Naib Ameer Zarnoor Afridi’ house in Sadukhel area of Landikotal tehsil in Khyber Agency, official and local sources said on Tuesday.
Taking action on the information of local residents who spotted the bomb, the security forces and Bomb Disposal Unit(BDU) rushed to the site and defused the device before it go off.
The sources said that Zarnoor Afridi was the main target to spread chaos after an yearlong peace prevailed after due efforts of the security forces in the area.
Zarnoor thanked the security forces and the other government machineries said that they saved his and his family members’ lives while taking a timely action.
The JI leader appealed from Landikotal officials to probe the case quickly and honestly and put the culprits behind the bars. He said hundreds of other innocent people have lost their lives in bombings and target killings so far in Fata.
Meanwhile, unknown gunmen kidnapped a taxi stand accountant from Torkham border town and took him to an undisclosed area. Sources said that some unidentified persons bundled an afghan national identified as Stori Gul into their car and shifted him to an undisclosed place. They said that the abducted afghan national as the cashier of a taxi stand at Torkham border.
Soon after the abduction, the security
force and political administration officials started a search operation in the
surrounding areas of Torkham to trace down the kidnappers. No arrest was made
till filling to this report.
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