LANDIKOTAL
\nShinwari, Afridis and other local tribes on Saturday collectively arranged sit-in and protest walk in Khyber Sultankhel at Takia ground and demanded forthwith arrest of the journalist Khalil Jibran killers and judicial inquiry.
\nHundreds of local residents, tribal elders, local representatives and civil society members participated in the sit-in camp and protest walk held in Sultankhel.
\nSpeakers including Jameat Ulema-e-Islam(Fazl) leader and religious scholar Mufti Tehseenullah Shinwari, Malik Abdur Razaq Zakhakhel, Shakir Afridi, Pakistan People\u2019s Partiy local leaders Shah Rehman and Hazeat Wali Afridi, Landikotal mayor Shah Khalild Shinwari,Jamat-e-Islami Landikotal Ameer Murad Hussain Afridi,Awami National Party Landikotal president Shah Hussain Shinwari and others said that government should take proper steps to ensure security of citizens. They said Khalil Jibran was the third local resident killed in the same locality in few months.
\nThey said that target killing was again on the peak in Landikotal while journalists receiving threats from militants.
\nThey constituted a grand jirga and nominated fifteen elders from each tribe to form a committee and chalk out next plan to maintain their security.
\nShakir Afridi said they could not keep silence to bear deaths of their residents. He said a police officer and a resident of Sultankhel were gunned down in Mazreena locality but they did not raised voice for their protection. He said this week journalist Khalil Jibran was brutally assassinated near his home.
\nSpeakers said Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan threat letters were issued soon after the Khalil Jibran Afridi murder that more journalists in Khyber district were at their target and they would soon be killed.
\nThe protesters later marched from Takia ground to Ayub Killay for three kilometers. They were holding placards and banners inscribed with slogans that arrest the Khalil Jibran killers,stop killing citizens and journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LANDIKOTAL Shinwari, Afridis and other local tribes on Saturday collectively arranged sit-in and protest walk in Khyber Sultankhel at Takia ground and demanded forthwith arrest of the journalist Khalil Jibran killers and judicial inquiry. Hundreds of local residents, tribal elders, local representatives and civil society members participated in the sit-in camp and protest walk held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-414009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"\n