Govt urged to stop reconstruction of shops in Miranshah

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PESHAWAR: Elders of Utmanzai tribe of North Waziristan Agency have demanded the government to compensate the affectees of the Operation Zarb-e-Azb in the region and stop reconstruction of destroyed shops in Miranshah as it may lead to a civil war.
Addressing a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club on Tuesday, National Youth Organisation (NYO) chairman Mohsin Dawar, Utmanzai elders Malik Ashraf, Malik Shahzada Wazir, Malik Naik Zali, Shaukat Aman and others said the tribesmen vacated hometown and migrated to settled areas on the call of the government in 2014.
Some of the families, they said, shifted to the neighbouring Afghanistan, and didn’t put up any resistance. They said it was aimed at making the military assault against militants a success and restore durable peace in the region.
Mohsin Dawar said the tribal families were passing through a difficult time owing to lack of proper shelter and other basic facilities.
He said expensive household items were also destroyed when their houses were demolished.
Though the government had promised the tribesmen to extend compensation to the tribespeople for their losses, no such policy was prepared in this connection, he added.
Rather the lands of tribal people were being occupied upon which shops were being built, he added.
The tribal elders said that construction of new shops was illegal as the owners of respective lands weren’t taken into confidence about construction.