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SWAT, Oct 26: Militants on Friday publicly executed four law-enforcement personnel in a village, 16km west of Mingora, the district headquarters, and exchanged heavy gunfire with security forces in a nearby sub-district. “It was gruesome,” was how a resident of Shakkardarra described the scene of beheading of the law-enforcement personnel.Requesting anonymity, he told Dawn on phone that masked militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles brought the four men to the village at around 5pm, fires a few shots in the air and then beheaded them. The men, said to be in their mid-20s, had their hands tied together....

A MILITANT Islamic leader in Pakistan has warned of more terrorist attacks if the military Government blocks guerillas from crossing into Kashmir to fight Indian forces. Abdullah Mazhar, of Jaish-i-Muhammad, the most violent of the Islamic radical groups, said thousands of well-trained militants could join the splinter factions involved in the recent terrorist campaign aimed at Western interests and Christians. "It is getting increasingly difficult for us to restrain our supporters," Mr Mazhar said. He has been in hiding for six months since President Pervez Musharraf outlawed his group and arrested scores of its activists. Mr Mazhar said his organisation...