Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Dozens dead in Pakistan clashes


Pakistani police intensify the spread in the locations that saw a suicide attack in Peshawar
Dozens were killed in clashes between troops and militants in Pakistan's tribal border area with Afghanistan, north-west of the country Tuesday, while killing at least ten people work in sectarian violence in the city of Karachi in southern Pakistan.

He said Pakistani security officials said fighting erupted when militants attacked a security post in the province honored tribal Joji near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.

The officials said that at least ten soldiers were killed and 32 others wounded, while 40 militants were killed and 30 wounded after the Pakistani military forces to respond and call the military helicopters to support the troops.

The military official said a local that more than 300 Taliban attacked a control center in the middle of last night, the army said the Taliban did not succeed in driving out paramilitary elements of the checkpoint that was held recently on this road "used by rebels on a regular basis" to go to the Kurram Agency in the north Waziristan, a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban.

Chen and Pakistani army troops backed by air force operations against militants in the area of ​​generosity since the beginning of this year, and the fighting is concentrated particularly in the area of ​​Joji, killing four soldiers and at least 30 militants in clashes last week's capabilities.

Taliban and Pakistan based group allied with al Qaeda and the Taliban - who are fighting foreign forces in Afghanistan - in the tribal areas in north-eastern Pakistan.

And ended in a series of attacks by the military failed, and failed to break the power of the group, did not achieve a preliminary peace talks between Pakistan and the Taliban made little progress so far, and previous peace agreements have failed to improve the level of security.


Sectarian violence
In the city of Karachi, the economic capital of Pakistan, police said today that at least 10 people were killed within 24 hours in political violence - religious.

She explained that among the victims wife and daughter of a lawyer in the province of Baluchistan in the southwest, where the mother and daughter returning home from a wedding last night when they were intercepted by unknown car on motorcycles and opened fire on them killing the driver as well.

Said Sharafuddin Memon, a senior official at the Interior Ministry in the state of the bond that "some were killed for religious reasons", in reference to the killing of Shiites by Sunni extremists, particularly in Karachi.

The security official in the city that these acts of violence that killed 25 people, mostly Shiites, including three lawyers and two doctors within a week.

Recorded and assassinations carried out by armed criminal gangs because of political differences, ethnic and sectarian regularly in this city with a population of more than 18 million people.

The Pakistani non-governmental organizations, said about 100 people died in 2011 in Karachi by the acts of violence, including 100 in one week in October / November last year.


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