MIRANSHAH: The local administration after negotiation with tribal jirga on Friday lifted the weeklong curfew from the militancy-stricken North Waziristan Agency. ?The curfew had caused immense hardships to the tribespeople as they remained cut off from the rest of the country for a week.
The tribespeople of certain villages in Miranshah subdivision, Mir Ali, Razmak and Dattakhel had complained of severe shortage of food items in their houses and said that some ailing people proved the worst victims of the curfew as they were denied access to the doctors for the reason best known to the local administration and military authorities.?
The local administration had put the entire tribal region under curfew seven days ago when an improvised explosive device (IED) hit a double-cabin pickup truck of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) in Ghulam Khan area of North Waziristan. It had killed nine personnel and caused injuries to over a dozen others. No militant group had claimed the killing of FC men. Since then, all the roads linking North Waziristan to rest of the country were closed.
Besides shops and markets, all schools and colleagues were closed and the students of could not appear in their annual exams and missed six papers. According to tribal sources, hundreds belonging to NWA were stranded in other places such as Bannu, Kohat and Peshawar.
Dozens of trucks carrying various goods to Waziristan and stranded at the Bannu-Miranshah road arrived in Miranshah on Friday after the curfew lifted.Some of the trucks transporting fresh fruits and vegetables were said to have unloaded on road as the products were of no use any more. The tribesmen also complained that they were unable to go to their fields for harvesting the fully-grown wheat crop.
The authorities had not mentioned any reason when curfew was imposed in the tribal region. They didn’t specify the reason when curfew was lifted.Tribal sources, however, said that a tribal jirga comprising elders and religious scholars held a meeting with the political agent, Siraj Ahmad Khan and senior military authorities in Miranshah and lifted the curfew after the meeting. It wasn’t clear what was discussed that encouraged military authorities to ask the political agent to withdraw the curfew from Pakistan’s most troubled area.
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