PESHAWAR: During a session with Deputy Speaker in the Chair, the MPAs of KP assemblies have asked the government to launch a probe to figure out how terrorists manged to cross the border and carried out attacks killing citoyens in Kurram recently.

PTI MPA Abdul Hadi while talking about the recent skirmishes in Kurram has lamented the death of a six-month-old child and the shooting of a four-year-old girl in her mouth as their convey was travelling from here to Parachinar.

As the death toll in deadly clashes surged to 133, Chief Minister, KPK, Ali Amin Gandapur attended a Grand Jirga (huddle of the tribal elders) here on 1st day of December to figure out a way to contain the hostilities between the Shia and Non-Shia warring tribes.

Following a briefing at the CTD Headquarters at the Police Lines here, CM Gandapur talked to the journalists at a Presser: “We are fighting an enemy that is better equipped and we have to level up at least to be able to overcome one of the biggest challenges of our lives.” His billion-rupee package, when approved by the Cabinet, will include purchase of high-tech drones, sniper rifles with thermal and night vision capabilities, high-tech kits and bombproof vehicles.

CM earlier instructed the concerned authorities to collect all the weapons being possessed by the warring tribes. Meanwhile, the DC on 2nd Dec, 2024, proclaiming, encore a new truce that he said had been agreed upon between the warring Shia & Non-Shia tribes, claimed: “Armed tribesmen were removed from the firing posts while police and forces have been deployed”.

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