November 2008 proves bloodiest month for NWFP since 2001

November has proven to be the bloodiest month for Pakistan’s restive North West Frontier Province since the US invasion of Afghanistan next door in 2001. It ended over the weekend with an encounter between the police and a group of militants in Bannu district.

The month witnessed an unprecedented surge in violence and lawlessness in the insurgency-wracked Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) as well as the settled districts of NWFP.

Besides terrorist attacks in the restive Fata, the provincial metropolis of Peshawar and the district of Bannu, one of the seven southern districts of NWFP, remained in the limelight over the previous 30 days.
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