TIMERGARA: Taliban in Adenzai tehsil of Lower Dir district agreed on Thursday to wind up their camps and pull out of Asbanr and Gulabad areas within two days.
According to sources, the assurance was given to a jirga at a joint gathering of local people and Taliban. The jirga representing the people of Asbanr held talks with the Taliban at government primary school.
It urged Taliban to leave the area because thousands of people had been rendered homeless and scores killed or injured a result of their activities and deployment of security forces in Adenzai tehsil.
Sultanat Yar of Jamaat-i-Islami, Khurshid Ali of Pakistan People’s Party and tribal leaders Umar Bacha and Shamsul Qamar attended the jirga.
A member of the jirga claimed the talks had been fruitful. He said the Taliban, who were represented by a cleric from Swat, had promised to start leaving on Thursday.
‘They did not set any condition for pulling out,’ he said. According to the sources, the Taliban called upon people to cooperate with them because they were struggling for the enforcement of sharia, but members of the jirga said their presence in the area had created problems for the populace.
The jirga had been in contact with Taliban for five days and the militants had left Shawa and Kityari villages on its request. Another member of the jirga claimed the Taliban had promised to leave Adenzai by Friday.
Members of jirga urged Lower Dir Nazim Ahmed Hassan Khan and Adenzai Tehsil Nazim Mohammad Omar to persuade the government to withdraw security forces and remove checkpoints in the area after the Taliban leave.
They demanded that the government should stop the military operation and pull out troops to restore peace in Adenzai.
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