BANNU:
A grand Jirga of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Uthmanzai tribe has demanding the government repatriate them to their areas in North Waziristan Agency otherwise they would march towards the Red Zone in Islamabad on October 10.
Participants of the Jirga held in Bannu expressed concerns over reports of outsiders looting properties in the evacuated areas.
It was the second Jirga convened in the last 10 days by the Uthmanzai Wazir and Dawar tribesmen in Bannu Township Park area in which hundreds of tribal elders from Uthmanzai and Dawar tribes along with other tribesmen and students participated. Malik Khan Daraz, Malik Khan Marjan and Malik Ghulam Khan along with other elders were leading the Jirga and addressed the tribesmen.
Daraz said that at the time of evacuation tribesmen had left behind household items, businesses and cattle in the safe hands of the security forces in the area but now they have found out that people from other areas were coming and taking away their properties.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 28th, 2014.
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Mould this march towards Waziristan and do not allow them to enter in the Islamabad . This mob could be hiding terrorists among them . This is the second plan of the streategy devised by the supporters of the IK ??
Hayat you are right because they are going to prove much harder than the musical concerts of IK and the education of our children will definitely suffer. I can imagine the tougher tribal people being chased by the Police in the streets of Islamabad with tear making the life of Islamabadians difficult, if this sit in takes place.
@hayat:
facepalm FATA is under the federal govt (PML-N), who are based in Islamabad, not Peshawar.
ms marvi memon, why are the IDPs not marching to Peshawar? BECAUSE they are your responsibility. take care of them otherwise they will be a harder lot to deal with than IK. #GoNawazGo
Bad news for Islamabadian, another but bigger sit in the Red Zone is going to disrupt our daily life.