Share this article
Print this page
Email a friend
- RSS
- Today's Paper
- Subscribe
- beta 2.0
High: 34°C
Low: 27°C
Alerts
Militia’s warning: ‘We’ll join Taliban if govt doesn’t want us’
Head of militia says if the govt doesn't accept their demands within two days, it should let them join the Taliban.
Head of militia says if the govt doesn't accept their demands within two days, it should let them join the Taliban.
PESHAWAR: The head of the anti-Taliban militia targeted in Wednesday’s suicide bombing at a funeral in Adezai has warned that its volunteers will be forced to join the Taliban if it does not get material and financial support from the government within two days. “Either the government accepts our demands within two days or they should let us join the Taliban, ” Haji Dilawar Khan, who leads the Qaumi Amn Lashkar, told reporters here.
“We are no longer capable of fighting them alone. We need the government’s help.” Khan had made a similar warning last week, when he told a press conference that the government was not providing the militia promised ammunition and rations. He said the government’s apathy was demonstrated the day after his press conference, when Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister Bashir Bilour had reportedly told the media that the militias were no longer useful.
After Khan spoke to reporters on Wednesday, Bilour released a press statement pledging that the government would negotiate the matter with the lashkar soon.
Adezai village is close to Peshawar, not far from the tribally administered regions that border Afghanistan where the Taliban are at their strongest. The area is home to several tribal lashkars that were formed with government backing to resist the Taliban.
Khan said despite a lack of support from the government, his militia had managed to wrest Matani from Taliban control.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 10th, 2011.
Reader Comments (17)
Latest News
No hepatitis medicine: Treatment of 1,000 patients on hold for six months
‘Medicine in stock enough to continue treatment of 300 in Sargodha’, residents diagnosed getting treatment from quacks
Cricket: One chance is all I need, says Rana Naved
Out-of-favour all-rounder reckons he still has what it takes.
Pre-natal health: Mother and Child Week begins
49,000 LHWs; 5,000 CHWs will visit women, children at home.
Karate: Lahore clinch Punjab event
Lahore coming out on top after bagging a total of three gold, two silver and two bronze medals.
Recent Slideshows
More in KP & FATA
After the war: Village that resisted the Taliban neglected by govt
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, redistributed or derived from.
Unless otherwise stated, all content is copyrighted © 2012 The Express Tribune News Network.
Technical feedback? webmaster@tribune.com.pk
typical stupid and short sighted politicians….first they were actively seeking help of these militias and now they are not useful. So what will happen to those people who took up arms against the Taliban? without the help of the government they will be killed by the Taliban.Recommend
This brave lashkar must be compensated, it is because of Adezai lashkar that bomb blasts in Peshawar have decreasedRecommend
why are we so intent on repeating our past mistakes?? we armed,trained islamic fundamentalists before & called them ‘mujahideen’ & now we are having to pay the price as the cancer has spread from afghanistan to pakistan.
If we arm these lashkars we are creating a new problem for ourself.The barbaric mentality,attitudes,beliefs & values of these people are the same,just the labels are different,we call these ones ‘lashkars” while they treat their women just as horribly as the blood thirsty taliban do.
Don’t create another frankenstien.Recommend
Is there any moral fibre left amongst the people? Amazing how lightly such decisions are being taken. The radicalization of Pakistan seems irreversible if this is any indication.Recommend
This would be the worst case…if it happens!
I would like to urge the authorities to support these groups….Recommend
Bohat Aala…Recommend
* Same old mistakes which Pak has made in past while Afg Russian war They raise parallel armies to deter anti gov. forces who later challenge writ of the gov.*Recommend
The Tribal people they are our main power and worlds biggest & bravest persons to fight in any conditions. Please don’t let them go.Recommend
They’ll join the same very people who are attacking them and suicide bombing their funerals???Recommend
after this report of anti taliban militia ,I hope every one now understand how talibans are fromed.Recommend
@Karim Javed:
There you go again.
You see that? This is so much a part of the Pakistani psyche to raise and nurture terrorist outfits.
This was/is/will be the cause of your doom.
There’s no hope for you guys really.Recommend
@All…
The issue has politicised and is being poilticised forcefully…
The aboove cold war is not between the Lashkar and The Government,, but,, between Two polictical parties,,,ANP – - – - PML-Q,,
trying to make runs over dead bodies..Recommend
Religion of pieces with bags full of dead bodies
.Recommend
@Maulana Diesel:
naaaaa diesala. generals are stupid. politicians are just powerless.Recommend
I’m Hopeful ANP will not leave them alone, just that the establishment (who is supporting the other side still, being their strategic assests) doesn’t want to let ANP help the laskars.Recommend
Please stop supporting these rogue elements that sprouted in the name of their so-called fight against the militants. They are all hard core criminals and aim at financial gains and permission to brandish arms to terrorize the local population.
I request the reporter(s) to go and find the truth about Delawar Khan. He has been a gangster all his life and his rival, who in his later days became his friend, was also given the status of ‘Shaheed’ after he was killed.
Both these families run a chain of ‘kidnapping gangs’ and its not difficult at all to find this out, if one choose to do so. Police, despite knowing everything, cannot do anything because of the political support that they have.Recommend
@Javed Afridi: Sir,,ha ha ha ,, You, the once abducted Journalist , right??
you did what i also wanted,,i know you,, you know me,, but signing in as Interests from Islamabad is to keep my self hiden.
I know both the parties and even have close terms with both of them. Both the rivals still have differences even inside the Lashkar. One is asking for assistance for so called fight against terrorists. I still remember Javed Aziz reported a story from FR of Peshawar in Kandao area. Although Javed bhai did what he was told by his sources but it was not the actual occurance. Rs 3 million were recieved by the Lashkar men to give back owner ship of the property once taken over during “Dushmani” and all the drama was portrayed as presence of militants in that kalay. Now ask Javed, the property has once again been taken over by those, decleared as militants, why doesnt he cover it as a follow up….Recommend