Four bodies found in Mardan fields
MARDAN Bodies of four bearded people were recovered from fields here in Ibrahim Khan Kally area on Tuesday morning in limits of Saddr Police Station, police and local sources said.
People of Ibrahim Khan Kally informed police that bodies of four unidentified people were lying in the agricultural fields. The police reached the spot and shifted the bodies to the District Headquarters Hospital Mardan for autopsy.
Sources said that one victim was identified as Arif Khan a resident of Par Hoti area. Later, the body was handed over to his family for burial after autopsy. Identity of the other three bodies could not be ascertained till filing of this report. Sources said Arif Khan was disappeared few years ago. They further said there was no sign of torture or bullets on the dead bodies. They said ages of the dead persons were from 30-35 years and they had beard. Police have registered a first information report (FIR) of the incident and started investigation. Earlier on Sunday, 14 bullet-riddled bodies of unknown civilians were recovered from Sepah tehsil Bara, sub-division of Khyber Agency.
The Khasadar sources said on Sunday 14 bodies having numerous bullet wounds and signs of torture were found in Speen Kabr area. One Malik Mehmood was identified as a local tribesman while the rest of the bodies were collected by a local welfare organisation, Khidmat-e-Khalq for identification and burial, locals said. The cause of the massacre could not be ascertained. The locals accused the security forces of this crime. However, the spokesperson for the security forces denied it saying not a single civilian had been targeted so far in the ongoing operation in Bara.
Sundays discovery was made two days after 12 more bodies, also bearing signs of torture and numerous bullet-wounds were discovered in the same area, 15 km south of Peshawar.
A government official in Khyber Agency said that 14 bullet-riddled bodies were found from a roadside in Sheikhabad. Among them was the body of Mehmood Malik, the cousin of Peshawars ex-nazim Azam Khan Afridi.
They were taken into custody by the paramilitary Frontier Corps a few days back from Sepah area after unknown people attacked the FC post and killed four soldiers, a tribesman told Reuters, requesting anonymity because he feared for his safety.
The official said that it was not known who had abducted the slain persons, whom the tribesmen say were locals. However, he said the administration suspected that militants were involved in the incident.
A tribesman, Torab Ali, said all the bodies had acid thrown on their faces, making identification difficult. We dont have any medical expertise but we think they were killed two or three days ago, he added.
No one has acknowledged any connection with the deaths
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Taliban kill BRSP employee in Pishin
QUETTA - Taliban have killed a kidnapped employee of Balochistan Rural Support Programme (BRSP) after not being paid ransom money, an official confirmed.
Six employees of BRSP were kidnapped by a group of armed men from Barshore area of Pishin district, about 70-kilometer away from Quetta, on December 13th, 2011.
They had kidnapped BRSP employees including Bashir Ahmed, Altaf, Mujeeb-ur-Rehman, Naimatullah, Dawood Shah and Maqbool Ahmed.
According to an official of BRSP, the kidnapped employees were shifted to Waziristan and one person Maqbool Ahmed, resident of Kuchlak was killed.
Sources said the kidnappers sent a video showing the killing of Maqbool. However, the body of Maqbool is yet to be handed over to the heirs. When contacted Home Secretary Nasebullah Bazai, said the kidnappers were demanding Rs 250m as ransom money for the release of kidnapped employees. He said there was a group in Waziristan who allegedly kidnapped the BRSP employees. Law-enforcing agencies were making their utmost efforts to trace the kidnappers, he said ,adding, that a team by provincial government had been dispatched to receive the body.
BRSP in a statement has strongly condemned the killing of Maqbool Ahmed and announced a three-day-mourning besides demanding for arrest of culprits and safe recovery of other five hostages. BRSP is working in different parts of Balochistan on different projects including provision of clean drinking water, education and health so that the standard of people in remote areas of the province could be improved.
It is pertinent to mention here that Health Programme Manager Khalil Rasjed Dale, a British national, was kidnapped some 200 metres away from his ICRC residence in Chaman Housing Scheme Quetta, a high security zone where offices of most of the international humanitarian organisations are situated on January 5th, 2012.
The whereabouts of Dale is yet to be traced because despite the lapse of over two months, police failed to find any clue.
He is believed to be taken to tribal region in neighbouring Waziristan
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