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REPLUG: Who was Mangal Bagh?
He was truck driver or, according to some, bus conductor who belonged to smallest of eight sub-clans of Afridi tribe
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He was a truck driver or, according to some, a bus conductor. He belonged to the smallest of the eight sub-clans of the Afridi tribe. He had no formal education but a few years in madrassa. He also spent some time with a secular political party. Then intriguingly, in less than five years he became a top militant commander. This is Mangal Bagh, the chief of Lashkar-e-Islam militant group, who virtually ruled Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency until June 2008 when he and his armed vigilantes were driven out in a security operation. ....

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