KHAR: Three Levies personnel were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast targeting a polio team in Bajaur Agency’s Khar district on Tuesday.
Officials in the political administration said the team was targeted while administering polio drops to children in the area.
The injured were identified as Saeedullah, Shafiullah and Zahid, who were taken to Agency Headquarter Hospital Khar. Soon after the blast, security personnel reached the site and cordoned off the area.
Fieldworkers and security forces involved in anti-polio drives in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have often been targeted by militants.
Separately, security forces on Tuesday claimed to have taken three women into custody near the Pak-Afghan border in Chaman on suspicion of their links with a proscribed organization. According to security officials, the three women were arrested while they were trying to enter Afghanistan’s border town of Spin Boldak via Bab-e-Dosti (Friendship Gate) at the Chaman border crossing.
They said that the terror suspects had been shifted to Quetta for further questioning with regard to their alleged involvement in acts of terrorism and sabotage and links with a banned terrorist group.
The forces said to have detained the driver who brought the women to the border crossing.
Separately, Frontier Corps Balochistan and intelligence agencies in their actions in Dera Bugti and Loralai seized weapons and ammunition.
According to details, the FC conducted successful actions against terrorists in Ilyasi area of Dera Bugti and Jalal area in Loralai. Weapons and ammunition was seized during these actions.
Published in Daily Times, November 1st 2017.