Kurram Agency War April 2007 - April 10, 2007 (Clashes Continue)

April 10, 2007 (Clashes Continue)

• Despite the presence of security forces, heavy fighting between rival groups in different areas of the Kurram Agency continued for the fifth consecutive day on Tuesday April 10. There is no respite in clashes and residential areas are being targeted with rockets and light cannons, forcing people to evacuate women and children to safe places. The region was without electricity after the main transmission line was attacked near Alizai in the Lower Kurram Agency. According to sources, death toll had risen to 50 and hospitals in Parachinar, Sadda and Alizai had received 260 wounded. Doctors said that 173 wounded had been shifted to hospitals in Parachinar and about 65 to the Sadda hospital.
• The official death toll from the clashes since April 6 has reached 25, while the unofficial toll is as high as 80. The political administration is using the traditional jirga system to broker a ceasefire. The jirgas are showing results at some places only.
• Fresh army troops and paramilitary soldiers were seen heading towards the main bazaar as violence continued in surrounding areas of Parachinar, witnesses told Daily Times.
• A doctor who was given permission to go out in the curfew said that private property has been badly damaged in Parachinar bazaar. “Shops have been burnt and no one knows which side has suffered most. Both sects have tried to inflict maximum damage on the other,” said the doctor, asking not to be named.

• Sources say that government is falsely claiming the ceasefire in various areas. and government law enforcement agencies found attacking on sunni civilians as tated that a woman transferring her son wounded to Hospital was shot dead along with her son.
• Central leaders of the ISO Shafiq Bangash, Sajid Hussain and others alleged that 10 helicopter gunships were firing at local population and people in uniforms of FC were killing innocent people in different parts of Parachinar.
• People here say that city is running out of food.