PESHAWAR: Elders of Utmanzai tribe of North Waziristan Agency have demanded of the government to compensate the affectees of military operation Zarb-e-Azb in Waziristan Agency, and stop construction of destroyed shops in Miranshah as it fear to cause civil war. While addressing a news conference at Peshawar Press Club on Monday, the tribal elders led by National Youth Organization (NYO) Chairman Mohsin Dawar said that the tribesmen in 2014 on single call of the government had vacated their home town and migrated to settled areas of the country, whereas some of the families were shifted to neighboring Afghanistan, and didn’t made any resistance. He said it was aimed to make the military assault against militants a success and restore durable peace in the region. Flanked by tribal elders belonging to Utmanzai tribe including Malik Ashraf, Malik Shahzada Wazir, Malik Naik Zali, Malik Darwin, and Shaukat Aman, the NYO chairman Mohsin Dawar said that the tribal families were passing through a difficult time owing to lack of proper shelter and other basic facilities. He lamented that in 2014 before to launch the military operation against militants in the area terrorists were shifted to other safer places and no resistance had taken place, but despite that hundreds of houses and bazars consisting around 8000 shops, worth billions of rupees, in Miranshah were razed. During the demolishment, he said, expensive luggage in houses and scrap at their shops were also destroyed, although the government had promised the tribesmen to extend compensation to innocent tribal-people for their losses. Dawar lamented that no such policy was prepared in this connection, rather the lands of tribal people were being occupied upon which shops under new maps were being started. The tribal elders said that the construction of new shops were illegal as the owners of respective lands weren’t taken in confidence regarding construction. He warned that this will ultimately result in a civil war like situation in the area, and asked the government to stop construction work on the stated cite in Miranshah, until to take the respective owners in confidence.