Commissioner Kohat Division Syed Motasim Billah Shah here Wednesday chaired a Grand Peace Jirga focusing on the overall security situation in Kurram and Orakzai districts and to review preparations for upcoming month of Muharram. The meeting was attended by tribal elders, jirga members and relevant officials who reviewed in detail the implementation of Kohat Peace […]
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Mardan police rescue minor girl in swara case, 11 arrested
Police in Mardan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have rescued a minor girl who was allegedly being handed over under the illegal swara custom, while arresting 11 members of a local jirga involved in the decision-making process, officials said on Monday. Read More: Mardan Police arrested 2,756 POs in 2021 According to police, the incident took place […]
9-year-old girl forcibly married under jirga order in Swat
SWAT – A 9-year-old girl was forcibly married with a 32-year-old man in Swat Manglor area, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, under the orders of a local jirga. Read More: Unity at NCSW consultation to end child marriage According to police, the girl had been abducted by her uncle, Syed Rehman, four months prior to the marriage. Following the […]
KP CM announces another jirga for ‘talks on protest march to Islamabad’
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi announced on Sunday that he would soon convene a grand jirga for consultations with stakeholders across the province for a protest march on Islamabad. The CM shared his plans at a jirga at Khyber’s Jamrud Sports Complex, which he had announced last Sunday while responding to the federal government’s […]
Jirga on Tirah crisis slams KP govt over ‘mismanagement’
A jirga (tribal assembly) was convened at Bara Bazaar in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber district on Saturday under the auspices of the Khyber National Jirga. Leaders from various political parties and tribal elders attended the jirga, which called for immediate relief and rehabilitation for tens of thousands of families displaced from the picturesque Tirah Valley of Khyber. […]
KP CM chairs Bajaur jirga, announces relief package
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Muhammad Sohail Afridi on Sunday chaired an important jirga comprising parliamentarians, tribal elders and notables of District Bajaur. Participants of the jirga expressed full confidence in the Chief Minister and assured their complete cooperation. The meeting held detailed discussions on the law and order situation in the province, improvement of Pakistan-Afghanistan […]
Dera Ghazi Khan: Tribal jirga members booked after man tortured in “red-hot iron” ordeal
DERA GHAZI KHAN: The Border Military Police (BMP) in Phogla Tuman Buzdar, Taunsa Sharif, has registered a case against all members of a local jirga after a man was subjected to severe torture under an illegal tribal custom. Read More: Shahbaz Sharif and field marshal Asim Munir to lead key tribal jirga in Quetta The victim, […]
KP govt convenes peace jirga in assembly on Nov 12
The PTI on Tuesday decided to convene a peace jirga in the KP Assembly on November 12 to discuss the volatile law and order situation in the province. The decision to hold the jirga at the assembly’s hall at 11am was taken in a high-level consultative meeting of the party’s KP leadership, which was jointly […]
NSA Moeed Yusuf differs with Fawad Chaudhry over TLP statement
ISLAMABAD: On Friday, National Security Advisor Moeed Yusuf disagreed with the statement of Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on the government’s talks with the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) in which he had said that neither the state nor the government is ready to fight extremism. Yusuf was speaking in a talk show and said “I do not […]