[Pak Daily Times] Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi Bajaur Agency chief Dr Ismail laid down arms along with six other terrorists and announced their full support for the Pakistain Army in the war against terrorism, officials said on Saturday. According to political administration officials, Dr Ismail surrendered along with six other terrorists to the political authorities in a grand tribal jirga of the Badan tribe in Mohmand tehsil, which was held at Khar, the headquarters of the Bajaur Agency. Bajaur Scouts commander Colonel Nauman Saeed, Khar Assistant Political Agent Iqbal Khattak and other tribal elders were also present on the occasion. Addressing the jirga, Colonel Saeed said that terrorism had damaged the socio-economic life of the residents of the agency. He said that successful military operations restored peace and prosperity in the area and now it was the responsibility of the tribal elders to keep the agency free of terrorists.
Colonel Saeed praised the role of the Mohmand tribes in the operation against terrorists and said the tribal elders had helped eliminate terrorists from the area. Ismail, denouncing terrorism, said, "Pakistain is our country. Bajaur Agency is our native land and we would not allow anyone to disturb the peace of the agency".