& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

Taliban announces truce for Ramadan in tribal belt

Militant-linked Pak elder killed in ambush

AN1, AFP, Miramshah
The Thliban has declared a unilateral ceasefire in North Waziristan during the fasting month of Ramadan.
Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur's spokesman, Ahmadullah Ahmadi, called local journalists from an undisclosed location and said the outfit has decided to shun its operations for the next 40 days.
"TheTaliban will not attack security forces during this period." Ahmadi said.
Ahmadi said the ceasefire would be observed ten days after Eid to maintain the sanctity of the holy month, the Dawn reports.
The Orakzai chapter of the Taliban has also announced a unilateral ceasefire.
Taliban's Orakzai spokesperson spoke to journalists over tire phone and said the decision to halt the offensive was taken by the Taliban leadership.
He also said Ihllban sharia courts in the agency would be closed from today (Wednesday) until the 1 Oth day of Eid.
The move comes as a surprise after Riliban vowed to avenge the reported death of the Te hr e e k-e- Ta I i b a n Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud in a US drone attack.
Meanwhile, a tribal elder with links to the Ihliban was killed Sunday along with four close relatives in an ambush in Pakistan's northwest militant stronghold, officials said.
The deaths of Malik Sarwar Khan and four other men come amid reports of intense feuding in the militant ranks. after the apparent death of Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud sparked a heated succession battle.
Khan was travelling from his home village of Dazha Ghundi in the Mehsud heartland of South Waziristan near the Afghan border to the main district town Wana when
gunmen attacked his vehicle, officials said.
"Armed men stopped the vehicle near Wana bazaar and sprayed it with bullets, killing Sarwar Khan, his son, a brother, nephew and a close relative," a senior administration official told APR
The attack could have been spurred by a tribal vendetta or infighting in thelhliban movement over the succession, said the official, who asked not to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media.
Earlier a remote-controlled bomb exploded in a car Saturday killing a militant spokesman and his driver while wounding five others in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police said.
"l\vo people were killed and five others were injured in the car bombing," Peshawar police chief Sifwatuliah Ghayyur told AFP.
"The bomb was planted in the car and was detonated by a
remote control," he said, identifying the victims as Mubeen Afridi, spokesman for militant group Ansar-ul-Islam, which operates in Khyber tribal district near the Afghan border, and his driver.
Police suspect that rival group I.ashkar-e-Islam could be behind the bombing, Ghayyur said.
Bomb disposal chief Shafqat Malik said that up to 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of explosives were used in the device, which was planted under the car.
Sahibzada Anis, the head of district administration, said that the bombing took place on a busy road near the main government hospital, but there were fewer people out due to the onset of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
Television footage showed the white Toyota car reduced to a pile of mangled steel as investigators collected evidence.