All the slain men were residents of Malikdin Khel area, said to be active members of Ansarul Islam.
Four members of the banned outfit Ansarul Islam were killed in Gulbara, Masho Khel in the jurisdiction of the Badabher police station on the outskirt of Peshawar last night.
Police said that Zarbab Khan, Khan Bahadar, Amir and Jehangir were found dead inside a small guest room where they were staying. Each of the victims had received multiple gunshots.
“They had been killed in the night. But no one noticed it and when the family members entered the room in the morning, they found their guests dead,” said a police official of the Badabher police station.
All the slain men were residents of Malikdin Khel area of Khyber Agency and were said to be active members of Ansarul Islam. They had shifted to Masho Khel in fear of their lives after developing differences with the rival militia Lashker-e-Islam.
It may be mentioned here that the Mufti Mehbobul Haq-led Ansarul Islam is based in the far-flung Tirah valley of Khyber Agency and is engaged in a bloody war against Lashker-e-Islam for the past seven years.
Talking to The Express Tribune, a member of the peace militia in Masho Khel, Israr Khan, said that Zarbab was also an active member of a local peace militia as he and his three friends were considered strictly anti-Lashker-e-Islam.
“We don’t know who killed them, but it seems that they have been killed by Lashker-e-Islam members,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 24th, 2013.
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“They had been killed in the night. But no one noticed it and when the family members entered the room in the morning, they found their guests dead” That actually sounds more like they were allowing it to happen even if it was out of fear. Militants aren't known for their use of silencers. Multiple gunshots to three different people at the same time, in the same house where others were sleeping is going to wake someone up. Unless they live in a huge mansion and their rooms were clear on the opposite side and it was built with sound diminishing material coincidentally. They knew the room they were in as they obviously weren't searching the house, they probably used semi-automatic or automatic weapons that were not used liberally and somehow the rest of the people in the house were ignorant of the happenings until the next morning. Even if it was just three nearly simultaneous shots you could forcefully get yourself to believe it's possible it woke them up but it was so odd it was written off as a nightmare they were having messing with them and just went back to bed. But, all that? No. Just, no.