Militants from Afghanistan on Saturday stormed the house of local anti-Taliban militia in Pakistan’s restive northwest tribal region, killing him and three of his family members.
They were targeted in their house late last night in remote Upper Dir district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
The gunmen coming from Kunar province of Afghanistan attacked the house of local tribal chief Nazmin Khan and killed him with his two sons and a nephew, Sanobar Khan, a local police official said.
Two women were also injured in the attack.
“Mr. Khan was part of local tribal Lashkar (army) raised by the elders to fight Taliban militants,” the policeman said.
He said police and army chased the fleeing attackers and killed two of them.
Taliban chief Mualana Fazlullah who escaped to Afghanistan after 2009 offensive in Swat district often sends his rebels to attack the security force and elders supporting the anti-Taliban movement.
Pakistan has lodged several protests with Afghan government during previous weeks against the border incursions.
Pakistan launched a full-scale military operation Zarb-e-Azb against the local and foreign militants on June 15 in the tribal region once considered as the stronghold of al-Qaeda linked rebels.
More than 600 militants have been killed and over 100 hideouts destroyed so far.
The army has lost at least 35 soldiers in the fighting, which also displaced close to one million people.
