KOHAT FORT: Following three-week long parleys the two warring (Shia and Non-Shia) tribes have signed a 14-point peace accord here on Wednesday (1st Jan 2025).
According to details tribal elders converged at Kohat Fort where GCO 9 Division Major General Zulfiqar Bhatti had arranged a meeting (jirga) to figure out a way to end the skirmishes between two tribes that resulted into deaths of 130 citoyens in the last two months. The Apex Committee had decided to dismantle all the bunkers and remove all firearms in order to ameliorate the deteriorating law and order state of affairs. It was agreed that nobody will possess unlicensed weapons.
After the passage of the 2nd Feb 2025 deadline, law enforces will confiscate all the heavy weapons in the area. It is pertinent to mention here that due to closure of exits and entrances, inhabitants are facing a grave dearth of food and medicine While there have been reports that 100 children died because of non-availability of medicine caused by the closure of main arteries, a heli service had been delivering medicine and other goods to the citizens.
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