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Two Pakistani soldiers killed in Kashmir

 

Two Pakistani soldiers killed in Kashmir Report  : zafar iqbal

Muzaffarabad: June 26, 2009

Two Pakistani soldiers have been died and three were injured in a suicide bombe attack near an army vehicle here on Thursday, eye witnesses say. 

A young suicide bomber bowled himself near an army jeep early morning in Shoukat Line locality of the capital city.

The incident occurred in front of accommodation of army soldiers.

Nobody has claimed the responsibility of the attack till filing of this report.  

It is first kind of suicide bomb attack against security forces in Pakistan controlled Kashmir. In recently months a large number of soldiers, security personal and civilians have been killed in different parts of Pakistan where its forces are engaged a fight against Taliban militants in Northern part of the country.  

Meanwhile, in southern Kotli district of Pakistani Kashmir, Taliban have warned owners of cable,  Cd operators and beauty parlors to close down their business in one month, otherwise, they would be attacked.

According to local journalist Maqsood Ahmad , pamphlets have been distributed in local city center  of Kotli by unknown people who claim that beauty businesses  and Cable TV were un-Islamic, therefore, locals must stop such business and use of these products.  The pamphlet also warned women to stop shopping in the local markets as ‘it is against the teaching of Islam,’ local residents confirmed.



 

 

 

Zafar Iqbal: Zafar Iqbal is a freelance writer, campaigner and educator. He is architect of Press for Peace (http://www.pressforpeace.org.uk/), which works for the promotion of peace and sustainable development in South Asia, raising the voice of deprived communities and focusing gross root peace building and conflict resolution interventions in Himalayan State of Jammu and Kashmir. Being a campaigner he is a passionate and ardent supporter of change in his social and political milieu. As a freelance and independent writer, he contributes to various newspapers and online sources like Eurasia Review, Environmental News Service, Daily The Kashmir Monitor, Media Helping Media etc. He writes on political, environmental and geo-strategic dimensions of contemporary South Asia.
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