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| Tribal lashkars threaten to end govt support in war on terror |
| 2010-12-10 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Anti-Taliban lashkars on Thursday threatened to withdraw their support to the government and police if their demands were not met within 10 days. Adezai anti-Taliban lashkar chief Dilawar Khan told Daily Times on Thursday that chiefs of all the three anti-Taliban lashkars have decided in a joint meeting that they will withdraw support to the police and government if the latter did not fulfil promises made to them within 10 days. Leaders of the anti-Taliban lashkars, which included Dilawar Khan from Adezai, Fahimur Rehman from Bazid Khel and Fazal Amin from Taila Band, are ready to announce end of cooperation with the Awami National Party-led provincial government and security forces in the war on terror, Dilawar said. Following the decision, he said, senior coppers'>coppers met the lashkar chiefs and assured full support. The officials told the chiefs that they are going to arrange their meetings with the provincial chief minister, governor and other top police officials so they could present their demands to them. The lashkar chiefs were asked to cooperate with security forces until 10th of Muharram. Some members of the Adezai lashkar, on condition of anonymity, said that after withdrawal of support to the government, the lashkar will approach the Taliban for a pact. He said the Taliban would be offered safe passage through Adezai in return for assurance that they would not attack Adezai people and villagers. Dilawar said that the lashkars had courageously confronted the Taliban for the past two years despite great human and material losses. Asked about the reason for withdrawal of support, he said the government and military had extended almost no moral and material support to the lashkars since they were formed in 2008. He said that the government had promised arms, ammunition and food for the militias, which didn't materialise. Neither did the promised compensation package for heirs of the lashkars' members killed in fighting with the Taliban. |
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