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Fear & loathing in the Valley

A series of killings in former Ikhwani territory as the LeT moves in By Moazum Mohammad.

Past midnight on April 4, two armed men, their faces masked, entered Abdul Gaffar Bhat's home in Bonikhan village near Hajin town. Ordering him and his 23-year-old shepherd son Man­zoor to accompany them, they bolted the rest of the family from outside and left. Half an hour later, gunshots

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