Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Killed the leader of a banned group in Pakistan suicide attack


Pakistan suicide attack
Killed four people, one leader of the «Ansar al-Islam» rebel banned Akhundzada Hajj and seven others wounded in an attack by a suicide bomber in the area of ​​Baja near Peshawar Ghulam major cities in northwest Pakistan's tribal.

Police said the bomber arrived on foot to a house under construction is due to the movement's leader, noting that the group «Ansar al-Islam» taken from the Khyber tribal region, located between Peshawar and the Afghan border-based, and always engage in community with «-e-Taiba» rebel.

Pakistan has seen in four and a half years, hundreds of bloody attacks, mostly suicide and attributed to the movement «Taliban» condemning strategic alliance with Islamabad and Washington. The attacks resulted in the fall of more than 4,800 people. But the number of attacks declined in recent months.

In the province of Cram (North West), killed 6 militants, at least others were injured in a security operation against insurgents were deployed in several regions of the Cram, and also saw the destruction of the security forces caches of insurgents using the latest heavy weapons, and regained control of the regions of Jogi and Markhan Kando.

On the other hand, calmed the Supreme Court tensions resulting from the crisis, raising the authorities note a request for assistance the U.S. military in addressing the leadership of the Pakistani army, the worst in the relations between the civilian government and the military since the coup in 1999, it lifted the travel ban imposed since December (December) last Former Pakistani ambassador in Washington, Husain Haqqani. And decided a panel of nine judges, that Haqqani has the right to travel outside Pakistan, but to tell the Supreme Court formed a committee to investigate in the note, his plans in advance.

Haqqani and commented on the decision, saying: «I am pleased that the Supreme Court restored my right to travel after it was canceled without charge to the». He added: «I will join my family in the United States after consultations with the leaders of the People's Party».

Haqqani had returned to Pakistan in November (November) amid the outbreak of the crisis resulted from the alleged businessman Mansoor Ijaz that a senior Pakistani diplomatic note to the request for extradition and the U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon). And the subsequent resignation from office Haqqani.

There was no evidence that the military orchestrated a coup, and called the U.S. Department of Defense memo as «no credibility». But the scandal has threatened in the following weeks to become a full-blown conflict between the military and civilian leadership, a crisis of Pakistan can not afford.

It was due to make a miracle testified before the inquiry this month, but he did not come to Pakistan because of security concerns, said constitutional expert Salman Akram Raja, said that «rejected miracles make a personal testimony and a demand to raise the level of insurance has angered the court, and has reduced his credibility.


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