LANDI KOTAL: Rivalry between groups claims another life

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LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), June 19: A rivalry between two warring groups — Lashkar-i-Islam and Ansaar-ul Islam — claimed one more life on Tuesday when an elderly man was killed by his young nephew.

Family sources told Dawn that Haji Massed Khan urged his nephew Minat Khan to join the Lashkar-i-Islam but Minat Khan refused to do so. This led to an exchange of hot words between the two, and Minat Khan smashed the head of his uncle against a heavy stone, killing him on the spot.

In a separate development, members of the Khugakhel tribe asked Afghan refugees to vacate their houses in the Bacha Mena area, claiming the houses had become “a den for immoral activities.”

Nisar Ahmad, a representative of the Khugakhel tribe, said members of the tribe had received numerous complaints about “immoral activities” in the houses. He warned that the inmates would be forcibly evicted from their houses if they did not comply with the instructions voluntarily.

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