Sunday, November 07, 2010
Daily Times.
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PESHAWAR: Death toll from the suicide attack on a mosque in Darra Adam Khel reached 95, as some injured people termed the attack an outcome of a rivalry between two terrorist groups.
Barkatullah, 25, a student at a religious seminary in Akhurwall area, who had been injured in the attack, told Daily Times two terrorist groups – the Tariq Afridi group, which is a part of the TTP and loyal to Hakimullah Mehsud, and the Momin group – had developed serious differences. He said supporters of the Momin group had helped security forces eliminate Darra Adam Khel’s Taliban leader Tariq Afridi’s network from the Akhurwall area. Another injured, Mir Zaman Khan, said he had heard that the top commander of the Momin group, identified as Shaukat Afridi, had also been killed in the blast.
Meanwhile, the condition of several injured is said to be stable. Muhammad Younas, a dispenser by profession who was injured in the blast, said that as the imam of the mosque started the main sermon before the Friday prayers, the teenage bomber blew hismelf up in the lawn of the mosque. akhtar amin
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NATO tanker destroyed in Jamrud
Staff Report, Daily Times.
Sunday, November 07, 2010
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BARA: A NATO oil tanker was completely destroyed in a bomb blast on the Pak-Afghan Highway in Jamrud Tehsil of the Khyber Agency on Saturday, sources said.
Sources in the political administration told Daily Times that terrorists detonated a remote control bomb planted in the oil tanker near TD Bazaar in Jamrud. They said the driver and conductor of the tanker were injured in the incident, but were taken into custody by the political administration for interrogation. About 50,000 litres oil caught fire.
The main road remained blocked for more than two hours while the flames melted the high-tension supply line, suspending the power supply to the area for several hours.
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