WANA: A tribal journalist’s family escaped unhurt after his house was attacked with bombs that damaged a wall of the journalist’s house.
Dilawar Khan Wazir, a Wana-based tribal journalist working with BBC World Service and a Pakistani English daily, told Daily Times on Friday that apparently he was the target of the explosion, which took place at 5am on Friday. "It is no longer safe to live in Waziristan as journalist and I have made up my mind to migrate to a safer place somewhere in Pakistan," he said as the explosion grew "security concerns" for a handful of tribal journalists in Waziristan.
The bomb was planted outside the boundary-wall of Wazir’s residence. The explosion was close to a room where one of his family members was asleep. Dilawar declined to identify the people behind the explosion. "You know who did it," he said when asked who he suspected for the explosion. On December 4, a school Dilawar’s family was running was targeted when a bomb went off damaging the boundary-wall of the school. Wazir said it was "a message for me".
The Friday explosion comes hours after the journalist participated in a live programme of the Voice of America, broadcast on Thursday evening, and in which Pakistan military spokesman and other politicians discussed the situation in Waziristan where Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants were have been fighting security forces since 2003. "I think the explosion is reaction to my last night participation in the VOA discussion on Waziristan," the journalist believed.
