Khyber Agency: Rocket attack partially destroys house

"Militants or the drug mafia could be the culprits," says Bakhtiar Mohmand, Assistant political agent of Jamrud.


Our Correspondent September 26, 2012

JAMRUD: Unidentified assailants fired rockets and partially destroyed the guest house of Haji Tehseenullah, a khasadar, in Godar Naiabadi area of Jamrud, Khyber Agency at midnight. Tehseenullah said that at around 12:15am, a rocket hit the gate of his house, destroying it along with the muddy boundary wall. Two more rockets were fired 15 minutes later and landed in the lawn. After the incident, Tehseenullah along with other khasadars, searched for the assailants but they escaped. The assistant political agent of Jamrud, Bakhtiar Mohmand, said militants or the drug mafia could be the culprits.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 27th, 2012.

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