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Pak tribal hit force to punish mly convoy`s killers

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, April 1, IRNA - More than 3,000 armed tribesmen from the 
Mahsud tribe in South Waziristan will build up a force that is set to 
launch operation against suspects who killed 20 troops, causing 
injuries to 24 in an ambush on a military convoy on March 22. 
According to the local press reports, they would raid hideouts 
of the suspects, expel al-Qaeda members and supporters from the Ladha 
and Sarwakai Tehsils (sub-districts) inhabited by the Mahsud tribe, 
and nab all the wanted men. 
The News daily also reported of fresh Pakistan Army troops 
heading for Sarwakai, the site of the deadly ambush that prompted 
militants to boast about their capabilities as a guerrilla force. 
Eyewitnesses in Tank saw scores of military vehicles that drove 
towards Jandoola and onwards to South Waziristan. 
The police escorted the convoy through the crowded city roads in 
Tank. 
Helicopters flew overhead as the vehicles, filled with soldiers 
and supplies, journeyed through the rugged mountain terrain. 
The Mahsud tribal Lashkar has already burnt down the house where 
the attackers were able to hide before the ambush and nabbed four 
suspects in Kaniguram village. 
One suspect on everybody`s list was Waliur Rahman, who belongs to 
the small Burki tribe and was active as a pro-Taliban fighter in 
Afghanistan. 
Two of his brothers and a family guest have already been arrested.
Meanwhile, pro-government handbills were being handed to motorists
and passersby at all checkpoints in and around Wana on Wednesday, 
according to the daily. 
The Urdu language pamphlets urged the people to cooperate with the
Pakistan Army and the paramilitary Frontier Corps in restoring peace 
in the area and putting South Waziristan on the path of progress. 
"The Pakistan Army and Frontier Corps personnel are your brothers.
We have never targeted civilians. Let us advise the foreigners to 
leave the area. It is wrong to give refuge to those who refuse to 
listen to us," stressed the message on the handbills. 
Pashto language handbills had been distributed earlier in parts of
South Waziristan threatening action against those who oppose al-Qaeda 
and the Taliban. 
AHM/TSH/216 
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