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Thursday, September 22, 2011

General wounded in firing at army chopper in Lower Dir

ISLAMABAD: A top Pakistani military commander was shot in the thigh Wednesday when his helicopter came under fire near the Swat valley where troops fought off a Taliban insurgency two years ago. Major General Javed Iqbal, one of Pakistan’s top commanders in the northwest, was airborne when gunfire from the ground hit his helicopter in the mountainous village of Nusrat Darra in the district of Upper Dir. Security officials had initially said the helicopter was hit in Swat. Officials said the general was taking an aerial view of troop deployment. “The helicopter is safe. The commander was slightly injured. There was no loss of life,” a senior security official told AFP. Another senior security official in Swat said two bullets hit the helicopter but that it landed safely. A third security official told AFP that a bullet hit the general’s right thigh and that was taken to a military hospital in Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad. There was no claim of responsibility for Wednesday’s incident. afp

Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk

 

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