A soldier stands guard on the main road that leads to the troubled area of the Swat valleySeven people were killed and several others injured as spate of violence continued while another school was blown up in volatile Swat valley on Monday.
The government has slapped curfew in Nengolai, Bara, Koza Banadai, Shakar Dara, and Charbagh towns for indefinite period and issued ‘shot at sight’ order for violating the curfew.
The government took the decision after Tehrik Taliban Swat chapter issued list of forty ‘wanted to Taliban’ persons including ministers, members of National and NWFP assemblies, leaders of different political parties including ANP, PPP-P, PML-Q, and local government functionaries.
Military sources said the troops have launched ground assault against Taliban militants in Charbagh and Manglawar tehsils and is targeting hideouts and bunkers of militants with artillery, mortars and small weapons.
Three civilians were killed and near a dozen were injured during artillery and mortar fire in the curfew-plagued areas of Swat. Two persons were killed in Manglawar when a misfired shell hit their houses. A woman and nine other inmates including children were injured after their house was destroyed by a shell fell on their house in Charbagh.
Locals said four unidentified bullet-ridden bodies were also seen laying in the nearby fields in Nengolai area of Kabal. But no body can lift them due to the constant curfew in the area.
Swat militant chief Maulana Fazlullah through his illegal FM radio said that those people, who have justified military operations and are responsible for the killings of our men and civilians in Swat would be tried in Shariah courts.
However, those people whose names were included in the list have downed played the Fazlullah’s warning, saying they were not scared of any threat.
‘We will not present before any illegal court. We are ready for any sacrifice and go to any extent for the safety of lives and properties of our people,’ ministers, MPs, government functionaries and political leaders said on Monday in their reaction to Taliban warning.
The militants blew up a government-run boys high school in Odigram near Mingora early on Friday morning and also attacked a girls school in the Mingora city but the timely action of the security forces forced them to flee.
The government has slapped curfew in Nengolai, Bara, Koza Banadai, Shakar Dara, and Charbagh towns for indefinite period and issued ‘shot at sight’ order for violating the curfew.
The government took the decision after Tehrik Taliban Swat chapter issued list of forty ‘wanted to Taliban’ persons including ministers, members of National and NWFP assemblies, leaders of different political parties including ANP, PPP-P, PML-Q, and local government functionaries.
Military sources said the troops have launched ground assault against Taliban militants in Charbagh and Manglawar tehsils and is targeting hideouts and bunkers of militants with artillery, mortars and small weapons.
Three civilians were killed and near a dozen were injured during artillery and mortar fire in the curfew-plagued areas of Swat. Two persons were killed in Manglawar when a misfired shell hit their houses. A woman and nine other inmates including children were injured after their house was destroyed by a shell fell on their house in Charbagh.
Locals said four unidentified bullet-ridden bodies were also seen laying in the nearby fields in Nengolai area of Kabal. But no body can lift them due to the constant curfew in the area.
Swat militant chief Maulana Fazlullah through his illegal FM radio said that those people, who have justified military operations and are responsible for the killings of our men and civilians in Swat would be tried in Shariah courts.
However, those people whose names were included in the list have downed played the Fazlullah’s warning, saying they were not scared of any threat.
‘We will not present before any illegal court. We are ready for any sacrifice and go to any extent for the safety of lives and properties of our people,’ ministers, MPs, government functionaries and political leaders said on Monday in their reaction to Taliban warning.
The militants blew up a government-run boys high school in Odigram near Mingora early on Friday morning and also attacked a girls school in the Mingora city but the timely action of the security forces forced them to flee.
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