Peshawar: A ceasefire settlement has been reached between two warring tribes in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province following days of clashes between them that killed 130 individuals within the risky Kurram district.
Deputy Commissioner Kurram Javedullah Mehsud confirmed on Sunday that peace has been established throughout the battle zones within the restive Kurram district.
The clashes between Alizai and Bagan tribes within the district began on November 22, after an assault on a convoy of passenger vans close to Parachinar by which 47 individuals had been killed a day earlier. A number of passengers who had sustained grave accidents succumbed later, elevating the toll within the convoy killing to 57.
The dying toll from the violence surged to 130, with at the very least six individuals killed and eight injured on Sunday, as clashes within the risky Kurram district continued for the eleventh consecutive day.
The district administration lastly succeeded in arranging a long-lasting ceasefire on Sunday between two warring tribes engaged in a deadly gunfight, Mehsud mentioned.
Within the assertion, the Deputy Commissioner on Sunday mentioned that the jirga (council of the tribal leaders) would communicate to elders to reopen roads and signal a peace settlement.
Armed tribesmen had been faraway from the firing posts whereas police and forces have been deployed within the area, Mehsud mentioned.
The most recent spell of violence, which continued for the 11th consecutive day, has claimed at the very least 130 lives and injured 186.
The current episode of clashes started eight days in the past with ambushes on two separate convoys beneath police escort. Since then, violence between the warring clans has escalated, with police struggling to keep up management.
The Kurram area is dealing with a communication blackout, with cell and web companies suspended and academic establishments closed.
The closure of the primary freeway has not solely disrupted native transportation but additionally precipitated an entire suspension of commerce with Afghanistan, significantly on the Kharlachi border.
Kohat division elders and Parliamentarians would go to Kurram district to make sure a peace settlement between the warring tribes.
Earlier efforts to mediate peace, together with a seven-day and ten-day truce brokered by provincial officers in November, have failed to carry.
A high-powered delegation, together with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Secretary Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry and IGP Akhtar Hayat Gandapur, had additionally negotiated a ceasefire final weekend, however violence resumed shortly afterwards.
A day earlier, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur emphasised the necessity for establishing peace within the space and ordered authorities to demolish dugouts of rival tribes and seize their weapons.
The provincial chief government issued the directives throughout a grand jirga, organised in Kohat district on Sunday which was attended by elders of the rival tribes.
