MOHMAND AGENCY, January 14 (Online): As many as eighteen persons have been killed and six fatally injured due to bombardment by the allied aircraft from Afghanistan on Friday. The fourteen fatalities have been confirmed by ISPR, as briefed by Maj Gen. Shaukat Sultan.
The bombardment by the Allied forces, fell on Damadola Burkanday area of tehsil Mamoon in Bajaur agency at 3:00 am PST, completely flattening the homes of BakhtPur, Muhammad Rahim and Bacha Khan.
According to local eyewitnesses, fourteen members of BakhtPur family along with four others died, due to indiscriminate bombing. The dead included eight children, and four females. The dead included, 9-year old Nadia Bibi, 10-year old Sadiqa, 9-year old Tayyeb, 7 year old Zahid ullah, 5-year old Hussain Nawaz. Others included 20-year-old Ameer Muhammad, 25-year-old Nazir Muhammad, 50-year Noor Pari, 40-year old Shahi Badan, 30-year-old Qari Saeed, 30-year-old Tahira Bibi, and others. Some of the dead were unidentified.
The locals reported that the allied warplanes violated the Pakistani airspace from Afghanistan territory by 19 kilometers and targeted the said homes. The resultant explosions rocked the area far and wide, shattering windows.
The sources also reported reconnaissance flights spying on the area for the past few days.
The assistant Political Agent of the Nawagai region, Mr. Abdul Qayum acknowledged blasts heard at 0300 hrs, but said that since the reported area is located far away, no immediate details were available.
A team has been dispatched by the officials for further investigations. Bajaur Agency is located parallel to the Kunar Province of Afghanistan.
According to BBC, the local tribesmen had reported that allied warplanes had been busy targeting suspected Taliban hideouts for the past few days. A touring journalist the site of bombings informed the BBC that the dead had been buried.
It is feared that the dead could well exceed 18. In the past about eight persons had died due to such bombings and the government had lodged strong protests to the American Administration.
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Is Pakistan sovereign, stooge or what?
The Bajaur killings of innocent people by the foreign troops is an extremely
serious incident and the mere protest from Pakistan shall not help stop the repeat
of such dare-devil acts on our national soil unless we pay back in the same coin to
protect our citizens and sovereignty as proud Pakistanis.
Otherwise the country is either puppet or the banana republic in the name of illusive friendship with a country which has no respect for the International laws, conventions or sovereignties of the fellow nations.
One Muslim cleric was kidnapped, from the Italian soil, by the CIA agents to Egypt and resultantly not only the government their (Italy) left a strong protest to the US government even the concerned judge in the case of this crime issued warrants of almost 16 CIA agents, involved in this case, throughout Europe to bring them to justice for the criminal breach of the Italian laws and sovereignty.
So this would be very appropriate if the Human Rights commission in Pakistan, which was very much concerned about the situation in Balochistan, moves its organization to file a case in this regard so that all culprits in this barbaric act should be brought to justice and the judge to be in this case should also issue warrants of arrest against the CIA agents and the command of US troops responsible for the killings of these innocent Pakistanis/Muslims.
We shouldn’t compromise, like the USA, as regards the security of our citizens and the national sovereignty of our nuclear republic….!
Ahmed bin Babar
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Posted by Ahmed bin Babar, Sweden
my sorrows are with innocnt families....Musharraf's & regime need to realize the worth of pakis life..wat if pakistanis planes has killled american or anny other EU country person.. Posted by zafar ali, Pakistan
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