Bara (Pakistan)
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| Province : | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | ||
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35 ° 55 ' N , 71 ° 27' E
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PST ( UTC + 5 )
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Bara is a city located about 10 km southwest of Peshawar in Pakistan . This is the place where Pashtuns and militant Muslims of Lashkar-e-Islam , also known as the Pakistani Taliban , live.
Until 2018, Bara was also the name of a local administration Bara Tehsil in a tribal area under federal administration of Pakistan, in the Khyber Agency , one of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan (FATA). The place was the administrative seat of the FATA until it was annexed to the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa .
The Bara River flows through Bara . From the era of the British Raj , Bara has a military fortification and a water supply system for Peshawar.
Pashtunen and the militant Lashkar-e-Islam , who turn against the central government of Pakistan, live in the village . In early May 2008, a 14-year-old suicide killed ten people when he set off bombs attached to his body in Bara.
Eight Taliban militants were killed near Bara in a confrontation on November 21, 2009 with the Pakistani military. Before that, one soldier was killed and three others were injured in an attack on a military vehicle.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report on www.globalsecurity
- ^ Google Books
- ↑ Information on www.thaidian.com
- ↑ Information from the Dailytimes ( Memento from April 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Information on www.dawn.com