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Posts Tagged ‘Pak-Afghan Highway’

Profile of Mangal Bagh

By revo • Apr 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics

fighting between two rival clerics led to bloodshed and virtual war in Bara in the Khyber Agency, fourteen miles west of Peshawar, which saw 24 people killed and women and children taken hostage. The two clerics had been ordered on February 16 by a jirga to cease making radio broadcasts, but had ignored the decree [...]



Mangal Bagh Fights in Khyber Agency

By Rohail Butt • Apr 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Mangal Bagh leads the Lashkar-e-Islam in Khyber Agency and enjoys power especially in Tehsil Jamrud. The recent tension between Laskhar-e-Islam and two tribes of that area Kokikhel Malagori and Nekikhel is flaring up. The Kokikhel tribesmen have stopped the traffic at Wazirdand and Nekikhel tribesmen at Walikhel on Pak-Afghan Highway.
Mangal Bagh has established Shariah law [...]