Senior Judge Shot in Azad Kashmir.

[American Pakistani]

October 25, 2011

Senior Judge Shot in Azad Kashmir

A gunman has shot and wounded a senior judge in Azad Kashmir.

Police say the chief justice of the region's high court, Ghulam Mustafa Mughal, was shot Tuesday in Azad Kashmir's capital, Muzaffarabad.

Mughal was rushed to a military hospital, where doctors said he was in stable condition.

Authorities were searching for the gunman. Police said the motive for the attack was unclear.

Elsewhere in Pakistan, authorities say a roadside bomb has killed an anti-Taliban militia member and three others in the northwest.

Police say the improvised explosive device targeted the vehicle of Aziz ur-Rehman in the Lower Dir district of Khyber-Paktunkhwa province, which borders the country's semi-autonomous tribal belt on the Afghan border.

Rehman, his 12-year-old son and two others were killed in the blast. At least two others were also wounded.

It is not immediately clear who is responsible for the attack. Pakistan's northwest tribal belt is a known stronghold for al-Qaida and Taliban-linked militants.

Pakistan has long encouraged the formation of local militias, known as lashkars, to help in the fight against the Taliban, especially in remote areas near the Afghan border. Members of the lashkars are often the targets of militant violence.

Elsewhere in Pakistan's northwest, thousands of people continue to flee an ongoing military offensive against militants in the Khyber tribal agency.

The army operation was launched last week after militants killed nine paramilitary soldiers in an ambush.

Officials said Tuesday that at least 3,000 displaced families have been registered at the Jalozai camp in the Nowshera district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The families are seeking shelter and other assistance after they were evacuated from their homes by security forces.

The fighting has so far killed at least three Pakistani soldiers and 34 militants.

 

[American Pakistani]

4 killed in attack in Pakistan, including leader of anti-Taliban militia
From Reza Sayah, CNN
October 25, 2011 -- Updated 0900 GMT (1700 HKT)

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A leader of an anti-Taliban militia was killed in a bomb attack in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, a Pakistani police official told CNN.

The man, Aziz-ur Rehman, his 12-year-old son and two others were killed in the attack, police said.

The bomb exploded as the militia leader was traveling in a car with his son, son-in-law and a neighbor, said Salim Khan Marwat, a local police chief.

The attack took place in a village in Lower Dir, a district where militant groups have increasingly targeted a growing number of pro-government militias that have formed to take on the Pakistani Taliban and other violent extremist groups in the region.

It was not clear who was responsible for Tuesday's attack.

 

[Areesh]

Good thing is his condition is stable.

 

[American Pakistani]

4 killed in attack in Pakistan, including leader of anti-Taliban militia - CNN.com

Source: CNN

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So this $hit starting again. I was satisfied that security authorities had now control but it had happen again.

Very sad & disturbing.