Feeling threatened: Peace committee members demand protection
Security forces continue searching for those who attacked Qalandar.
Security forces continue searching for those who attacked Qalandar. PHOTO: FILE
MINGORA:
The government was asked for protection of ‘aman laskhars’ at a joint meeting of 12 different peace committees in Bandai Village, Kabal.
The demand came in the wake of the target killing of village elder and peace committee member Qalandar Khan and his guard in Charbagh on Saturday.
“The government should not initiate peace talks [with militants] until they throw down their weapons and recognise the writ and Constitution of Pakistan,” said Idrees Khan, head of all the peace committees in attendance.
“We are helping security forces and law enforcement agencies without taking salaries; the least the government can do is give us protection.”
The state must compensate families of the martyred as they do with those of police and security forces, demanded the peace committee members. Security forces continue searching for those who attacked Qalandar, but no arrests have yet been made.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 7th, 2013.
The government was asked for protection of ‘aman laskhars’ at a joint meeting of 12 different peace committees in Bandai Village, Kabal.
The demand came in the wake of the target killing of village elder and peace committee member Qalandar Khan and his guard in Charbagh on Saturday.
“The government should not initiate peace talks [with militants] until they throw down their weapons and recognise the writ and Constitution of Pakistan,” said Idrees Khan, head of all the peace committees in attendance.
“We are helping security forces and law enforcement agencies without taking salaries; the least the government can do is give us protection.”
The state must compensate families of the martyred as they do with those of police and security forces, demanded the peace committee members. Security forces continue searching for those who attacked Qalandar, but no arrests have yet been made.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 7th, 2013.