Militants take 400 hostages

[Lockheed F-16]

Pakistan: Islamisten verschleppen 400 Menschen - Bild.de

German newspaper is telling that militants have taken 400 hostages, but no pakistani newspaper is reporting that.

PAKISTAN
Islamisten nehmen 400 Menschen in Geiselhaft
MEHR ZUM THEMA

SELBSTMORDATTENTAT
ÜBER 20 TOTE BEI
EXPLOSION IN PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN
26 TOTE BEI ANGRIFF
AUF POLIZEI-ZENTRUM
Mutmaßliche Islamisten haben nach Polizeiangaben in Pakistan rund 400 Menschen als Geiseln verschleppt.
Bei den Geiseln handelt sich um Studenten, Dozenten und deren Angehörige der Hochschule Rasmak Cadet in Nord-Waziristan (Nordwest-Pakistan).
Die Schule hatte einen fingierten Warnanruf erhalten, war daraufhin geräumt worden.
Auf der Flucht wurden die Opfer schließlich von den militanten Entführern überwältigt. Die Islamisten hatten rund 30 Fahrzeuge der Schule gestoppt und in ihre Gewalt gebracht.
In dem afghanisch-pakistanischen Grenzgebiet toben seit Wochen erbitterte Kämpfe. Die pakistanische Armee kämpft dort mit Unterstützung der USA gegen die Taliban. Das Gebiet gilt als Hochburg des Terrornetzwerkes al-Qaida.
Rund 800 Taliban-Kämpfer sollen seit Beginn der Offensive vor einem Jahr getötet worden sein. Eine Million Menschen sind auf der Flucht.
Auch in der Stadt Kohat, die in Richtung der Landeshauptstadt Islamabad liegt, explodierte eine Bombe am Busbahnhof. Zwei Menschen wurden getötet, 18 weitere verletzt

 

[Elmo]

Pakistan: Islamisten verschleppen 400 Menschen - Bild.de

German newspaper is telling that militants have taken 400 hostages, but no pakistani newspaper is reporting that.

PAKISTAN
Islamisten nehmen 400 Menschen in Geiselhaft
MEHR ZUM THEMA

SELBSTMORDATTENTAT
ÜBER 20 TOTE BEI
EXPLOSION IN PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN
26 TOTE BEI ANGRIFF
AUF POLIZEI-ZENTRUM
Mutmaßliche Islamisten haben nach Polizeiangaben in Pakistan rund 400 Menschen als Geiseln verschleppt.
Bei den Geiseln handelt sich um Studenten, Dozenten und deren Angehörige der Hochschule Rasmak Cadet in Nord-Waziristan (Nordwest-Pakistan).
Die Schule hatte einen fingierten Warnanruf erhalten, war daraufhin geräumt worden.
Auf der Flucht wurden die Opfer schließlich von den militanten Entführern überwältigt. Die Islamisten hatten rund 30 Fahrzeuge der Schule gestoppt und in ihre Gewalt gebracht.
In dem afghanisch-pakistanischen Grenzgebiet toben seit Wochen erbitterte Kämpfe. Die pakistanische Armee kämpft dort mit Unterstützung der USA gegen die Taliban. Das Gebiet gilt als Hochburg des Terrornetzwerkes al-Qaida.
Rund 800 Taliban-Kämpfer sollen seit Beginn der Offensive vor einem Jahr getötet worden sein. Eine Million Menschen sind auf der Flucht.
Auch in der Stadt Kohat, die in Richtung der Landeshauptstadt Islamabad liegt, explodierte eine Bombe am Busbahnhof. Zwei Menschen wurden getötet, 18 weitere verletzt

The ticker on Express News a little while back said that there were 60 cadets on the bus en route to Razmak from Bannu

 

[PeacefulIndian]

The ticker on Express News a little while back said that there were 60 cadets on the bus en route to Razmak from Bannu

Where is it located? In Swat or nearby?

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Police: Group of 400 abducted in NW Pakistan​

By RASOOL DAWAR
The Associated Press
Monday, June 1, 2009; 11:17 AM

MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan -- Suspected militants armed with rockets, grenades and automatic weapons abducted some 400 students, staff and relatives driving away from a boy's school in a troubled tribal region in northwest Pakistan on Monday, police and a witness said.

The brazen abduction came amid rising militant violence in Pakistan's tribal belt _ actions the military says are aimed at distracting it from its offensive against the Taliban in the nearby Swat Valley.

Details were still emerging Monday about the nature of the attack. No group immediately claimed responsibility.

Police official Meer Sardar said the abduction occurred about 20 miles (30 kilometers) from Razmak Cadet College in North Waziristan tribal area. The people were leaving the school area after they were warned to get out in a phone call from a man they believed to be a political official, Sardar said, citing accounts from a group of 17 who managed to get away.

Around 30 buses, cars and other vehicles were carrying the students, staff and others when they were stopped along the road by a large group of alleged militants in their own vehicles.

The details were confirmed by a staff member at the school who was among those who escaped. He requested anonymity out of fear of Taliban reprisal but said the school's principal was among those abducted. His vehicle happened to be behind a truck on the road, and it was less visible, so the driver slipped away.

The staffer said the assailants carried rockets, Kalashnikovs, hand grenades and other weapons.

It was unclear how many students were involved, though they made up the majority of the group. Cadet colleges in Pakistan are usually run by retired military officers and educate teenagers. They also typically provide room and board.

North Waziristan is a major Taliban stronghold bordering Afghanistan.

washingtonpost.com

 

[Screaming Skull]

Guys terrible news!!!! It seems that the abducted are mostly students

Police: Group of 400 abducted in NW Pakistan​

By RASOOL DAWAR, Associated Press Writer Rasool Dawar,

Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 2 mins ago

MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan – Suspected militants armed with rockets, grenades and automatic weapons abducted some 400 students, staff and relatives driving away from a boy's school in a troubled tribal region in northwest Pakistan on Monday, police and a witness said.

The brazen abduction came amid rising militant violence in Pakistan's tribal belt — actions the military says are aimed at distracting it from its offensive against the Taliban in the nearby Swat Valley.

Details were still emerging Monday about the nature of the attack. No group immediately claimed responsibility.

Police official Meer Sardar said the abduction occurred about 20 miles (30 kilometers) from Razmak Cadet College in North Waziristan tribal area. The people were leaving the school area after they were warned to get out in a phone call from a man they believed to be a political official, Sardar said, citing accounts from a group of 17 who managed to get away.

Around 30 buses, cars and other vehicles were carrying the students, staff and others when they were stopped along the road by a large group of alleged militants in their own vehicles.

The details were confirmed by a staff member at the school who was among those who escaped. He requested anonymity out of fear of Taliban reprisal but said the school's principal was among those abducted. His vehicle happened to be behind a truck on the road, and it was less visible, so the driver slipped away.

The staffer said the assailants carried rockets, Kalashnikovs, hand grenades and other weapons.

It was unclear how many students were involved, though they made up the majority of the group. Cadet colleges in Pakistan are usually run by retired military officers and educate teenagers. They also typically provide room and board.

North Waziristan is a major Taliban stronghold bordering Afghanistan.

Police: Group of 400 abducted in NW Pakistan - Yahoo! News

 

[Lockheed F-16]

Again it is proven, only a dead taliban is a good taliban

 

[MilesTogo]

This is tragic. I have hopes that kids will be rescued.

 

[Screaming Skull]

This is disgusting and despicable! Who will tell them that hurting young kids for personal gains is one of the worst forms of haram. and they call themselves protectors of Islam.

 

[Lockheed F-16]

NORTH WAZIRISTAN: Militants have kidnapped cadets and staffers of Razmak College who were heading to Bannu from the College.

The cadets and staffers of the college, situated in North Waziristan, were on their way to Bannu when they were kidnapped by militants who came in 20 vehicles. However, 17 cadets traveling in a vehicle successfully escaped from there.

Cadet College Razmak was suddenly closed and the cadets and staff were sent to Bannu.

Advisor to Prime Minister on Tribal Affairs Mirza Muhammad Jihadi has confirmed the happening of the incident.

Strongly condemning the kidnapping, he pledged that the government will ensure safe release of the hostages.

 

[SummerWine]

May no harm come to the abductees.....

 

[Rajkumar]

WTF

pak need to rescue all kids.war is turning ugly.i think pak need to increase troops and increase operation rate.

 

[Lockheed F-16]

Taliban have suffered heavy losses and now they r trying everything to weaken us. We must somehow rescue those students and if any harm is done to them then I'm sure the Army will retaliate in a way which will show those stone eating beards wht we can do. This behaviour is unacceptable and the Taliban need to be killed in the most painful way.

 

[Elmo]

BBC NEWS
Pakistan student convoy 'missing'

Police in north-western Pakistan say several hundred students are missing in a tribal area near the Afghan border.

Unconfirmed reports from the Taliban stronghold of North Waziristan say the students, teachers and relatives may have been kidnapped by militants.

Further north, troops are tightening their hold on Mingora, the main town in the Swat valley, after retaking it from the Taliban at the weekend.

In the town of Kohat, a blast at a bus terminal killed at least two people.

Attack fears

Reports say a convoy of about 30 minibuses carrying the students left Razmak Cadet College in North Waziristan bound for the town of Bannu.

Only two minibuses turned up, police say.

"Two vehicles carrying some 25 students reached Bannu, we are investigating about other students," local police chief Iqbal Marwat told the AFP news agency.

According to witnesses who escaped the convoy was stopped by a group of heavily armed men. Police officials quote these witnesses as saying a large number of people have been kidnapped, although there are conflicting reports about how many.

There has been a rise in violent incidents in recent days in the tribal areas next to the Afghan border.

The BBC's Chris Morris in Islamabad says officials believe militants are trying to divert attention away from a major military offensive in the Swat valley.

Fears of attacks by militants have increased after a military offensive against the Taliban in parts of the north-west.

The militants said they had carried out a massive bombing in the city of Lahore last week and have threatened more attacks.

Pakistani troops are still fighting against Taliban militants in the Swat valley, pushing northwards from Mingora, which is now under full government control.

The authorities say more than 1,200 militants and about 90 soldiers have been killed since their offensive began in a neighbouring district nearly six weeks ago.

There has been no official word about civilian casualties, and no independent confirmation of the military's claims.

An estimated 2.5 million people have fled from the fighting, but tens of thousands who were trapped in their homes are in even greater need of assistance.

'Retaliation'

The blast which killed two in Kohat, an important garrison town in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), injured at least eight others, officials say.

Police say a bomb went off in a crowded bus terminal on Monday afternoon.

Kohat police chief Mohammad Idrees said the attack could be retaliation for police operations against the militants, the Associated Press reported.

Taliban militants were driven out of Mingora, Swat's main town, on Saturday by Pakistani government troops.

Officials said operations in the whole Swat valley region should end in the next few days, although military chiefs are more cautious
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Published: 2009/06/01 17:31:01 GMT

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[Machoman]

Coward MFs let send some high class Pak commandos now and F@#$ Taliban a@#. What chicken **** they are.

 

[Elmo]

It's their ploy to dampen the swat operation... if they can't succeed there, then Waziristan provides another theatre. Abusing religion I tell you