North Waziristan Agency: IDPs threaten march on Islamabad
Jirga participants express concern over reports of looting in the evacuated areas
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.
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.