Source Daily Mail
Four more persons were killed and several families started to migrate to safer places as armed clashes between two rival militant factions continued on Sunday in the remote Tirah valley of Khyber Agency.
Sources said that clashes continued between Lanshkar-i-Islam (LI) and its rival group Ansaarul Insar to take control of Dars Jumaat base in Akkakhel area. More than a dozen tribesmen have been killed so far in last ten days.
The clashes between the two groups began over the murders of the religious leaders of the Zakhakhel tribe.
Thousands tribesmen have been migrating to Kohat city from semi-tribal area Juwakai where military and Taliban fighters are at war since long due to which the locals suffered a lot.
Sources said that tribesmen of Juwakai, semi-tribal area of FR Kohat, were receiving continuous threats from the local militants and several times motor-shells fired from unknown locations had targeted their homes in which many innocent tribesmen including children and women lost their lives.
Armed forces had also started operation against the militants in the area and fierce battles between the armed forces and local militants were reported from Juwakai area which has total population of approximately 50,000 and lies nearby the militants’ stronghold in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
Locals talking to media persons said that government has not provided them any support in migrating from the area. Some of the tribesmen were leading towards Kohat city on foot while very little number of them were travelling in vehicles.
“We have abandoned our homes which were constructed by our forefathers and the recent wave of war on terror and the military and Taliban battle will likely to inflict greater losses on us,” the locals lamented, adding that their homes will be ransacked during the operation against militants because no one has been left for security of their belongings in the abandoned houses.
The locals said that in case of damages in the war between the armed forces and militants the government will never extend them financial support especially for construction of damaged houses which will force the locals to leave their ancestral villages because poor citizens were not in position in the expensive era to re-construct damaged houses.
Sources said that local administration has not provided any relief to the displaced persons nor they arranged makeshift camps for tribesmen coming from the troubled area.
Four more persons were killed and several families started to migrate to safer places as armed clashes between two rival militant factions continued on Sunday in the remote Tirah valley of Khyber Agency.
Sources said that clashes continued between Lanshkar-i-Islam (LI) and its rival group Ansaarul Insar to take control of Dars Jumaat base in Akkakhel area. More than a dozen tribesmen have been killed so far in last ten days.
The clashes between the two groups began over the murders of the religious leaders of the Zakhakhel tribe.
Thousands tribesmen have been migrating to Kohat city from semi-tribal area Juwakai where military and Taliban fighters are at war since long due to which the locals suffered a lot.
Sources said that tribesmen of Juwakai, semi-tribal area of FR Kohat, were receiving continuous threats from the local militants and several times motor-shells fired from unknown locations had targeted their homes in which many innocent tribesmen including children and women lost their lives.
Armed forces had also started operation against the militants in the area and fierce battles between the armed forces and local militants were reported from Juwakai area which has total population of approximately 50,000 and lies nearby the militants’ stronghold in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
Locals talking to media persons said that government has not provided them any support in migrating from the area. Some of the tribesmen were leading towards Kohat city on foot while very little number of them were travelling in vehicles.
“We have abandoned our homes which were constructed by our forefathers and the recent wave of war on terror and the military and Taliban battle will likely to inflict greater losses on us,” the locals lamented, adding that their homes will be ransacked during the operation against militants because no one has been left for security of their belongings in the abandoned houses.
The locals said that in case of damages in the war between the armed forces and militants the government will never extend them financial support especially for construction of damaged houses which will force the locals to leave their ancestral villages because poor citizens were not in position in the expensive era to re-construct damaged houses.
Sources said that local administration has not provided any relief to the displaced persons nor they arranged makeshift camps for tribesmen coming from the troubled area.
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