PESHAWAR: Militants from Afghanistan stormed the house of a local anti-Taliban militia in troubled northwest Pakistan, killing him and three members of his family, officials said yesterday.
The incident occurred late Friday in Tenai Dara village in Upper Dir district around 250 kilometres north of Peshawar.
“Taliban militants from Afghanistan stormed the house of Nazmeen Khan, chief of a local anti-Taliban militia, in the late hours of Friday night and killed him along with his two sons and a nephew,” local police official Gul Fazil Khan said.
He said two other family members were wounded, including a women who was in critical condition.
Senior police official Javaid Aziz confirmed the incident.
“Taliban militants from Afghanistan attacked the house of a local anti-Taliban militia and the local militia and army later retaliated and killed two militants,” Aziz said.
He said the anti-Taliban militia and the military were searching for the militants.
The Taliban is an Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan. It spread throughout Afghanistan and formed a government, ruling as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from September 1996 until December 2001, with Kandahar as the capital. However, it gained diplomatic recognition from only three states: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
AFP
