Members of Khyber Welfare Committee (KWC) on Wednesday demanded theKhyber-Pakhtunkhwa governor ensure equal treatment of Khyber Agency’s displaced people as is meted out to the IDPs of North Waziristan.
Addressing a news conference at Peshawar Press Club, KWC President Haji Daud Khan Afridi said 25,000 people have shifted to settled areas due to the current military operation in Khyber Agency. He accused the police of inhumane treatment of the displaced persons.
“We are also Pakistanis, not foreigners, and should be treated equally,” complained Afridi, appealing to the provincial police chief and SSP (rural) to facilitate IDPs who were compelled to leave their respective villages.
Accompanied by other committee members including Malik Haji Hukam Khan Afridi, Malik Sultan Muhammad Afridi, Mula Khel Afridi and others, Daud Afridi said a number of displaced persons had not yet been registered. As a result, these IDPs were in dire need of essential commodities.
Afridi said Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has already announced Rs5,000 for each affected family at Jalozai Camp. He demanded the K-P governor to give IDP status to those displaced from Khyber Agency and to facilitate them like the displaced people of North Waziristan.
According to the FATA Disaster Management Authority’s website, over 175,000 displaced people from Khyber Agency have been enlisted in the wake of the military operation.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 6th, 2014.
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