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Afghan Taliban kidnapped ten labourers from a forest near Bumburate
of Kalash valley
By Zahiruddin CHITRAL: A squad of about
fifty persons believed to be Afghan Talibans kidnapped ten
labourers from a forest adjacent to the Kalash valley of Bumburate
here on Saturday evening. Police sources told chitraltimes.com that
the masked and armed assailants raided the place in the forest
where the labourers stayed who were there for the last one month
for harvesting of the forest on commercial scale. All the labourers
belonged to the Dhoke Dara village of Upper Dir district with
strength of sixty men and had been engaged by a local contractor
Haji Muhammad Khan. Some of the labourers told the police that the
assailants in great hurry and could take only ten of them after
searching two of the rooms. The incident had taken place on 2100
hrs on Saturday but the labourers could report to the police
station Ayun at 0200 hours on Sunday due to the remoteness of the
area, the police official said. He said that due to the wastage of
the time, the kidnappers succeeded in crossing into the Afghan area
which is very close to the valley. He opined that the element of
retaliation might be the motive behind the incident because the
residents of Dhoke Dara had constituted an armed lashkar against
the Talibans’s onslaught last year and had warded them off from
their valley. The names of the kidnapped persons were Muhmmad Zaman,
Misal Khan, Muhammad Rasul, Sherzada, Naeem Khan, Bakhtawar Khan,
Khoedad Khan, Umer Khan, Sher Alam and Muhammad Zada. It is worth
mentioning here that during the last Ramazan, the Afghan Taliban
had kidnapped the Greek national Athunasius from his residence in
Bumburate valley.
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Epidemic breaks out in Terich valley By
Our Correspondent CHITRAL: One girl died
and more than forty people of Warimun village of Terich valley have
been severely affected by the outbreak of dysentery. A social of
the valley, Haji Noor Afzal told chitraltimes.com that the number
of affected people is high steep rise with delay in the arrival of
medical team of the health department. He said that in the whole
valley stretching over forty kilometers, there is only one basic
health unit but without doctor. He feared that the casualty will
rise with further delay in medical aid which is hampered by the
blockade of road due to the recent floods. He stated that the
reason of the epidemic as the consumption of the stream water
highly contaminated by floods.
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