DERA ISMAIL KHAN:
A grand jirga in Kurram district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday failed to interrupt the deadlock between the warring sides over surrendering heavy weapons to the tribal elders, the necessary situation set by the authorities to open the roads to and from the district.
Due to a persisting impasse, the Jirga, which met right here on the Kohat Fort with Kohat Division Commissioner Moatasim Billah Shah within the chair, couldn’t finalise the ultimate peace settlement. Because of this, protest in opposition to the street closures within the district continued for the ninth consecutive day.
The settlement couldn’t be signed due to a scarcity of attendance of the Jirga members, in keeping with sources. “Each events concur on many factors of the settlement, however one social gathering had the reservations over a clause about depositing heavy weapons to the tribal elders,” a supply mentioned.
Varied factors have been mentioned within the Jirga. The authorities made it clear to the Jirga members that except heavy weapons have been surrendered, the federal government wouldn’t take the chance of opening the roads. One social gathering advised that weapons ought to be submitted to the federal government by each side.
Officers knowledgeable the Jirga that helicopter service had been began throughout the district, delivering medicines and different provides. Provincial authorities’s Adviser on Well being Ehtesham Ali mentioned that greater than 16,000 sufferers had been supplied remedy on the Parachinar DHQ Hospital since December 13.
In the meantime, in Bagan, residents have additionally blocked roads, whereas in Parachinar, regardless of the extreme chilly, a sit-in in opposition to the closure of roads continued for the ninth consecutive day.