Wazoo Agency.Speaking at a jirga held here on Saturday, the rustics decided to travel to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
and Islamabad to hold meetings with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan and Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. The elders would ask the governor and interior minister to find out solution to the situation through negotiations instead of military action. They said that people of Waziristan were patriotic and peace-loving.
The jirga decided that tribal people would not vacate their homes in case security forces launched operation. They said that people would take refuge in Afghanistan instead of taking shelter in relief camps in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Rumours about military operation have created uncertainty in North Waziristan with several Afghan families have already gone back to Afghanistan. While Taliban Commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur
...a member of the Madda Khel clan of the Uthmanzai Waziris. Educated in a Deobandi madrassa located in Multan, he is affiliated with the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) political party. Upon the formation of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007, he was announced as the group's overall naib amir under Baitullah Mehsud, who was based in South Wazoo, but has largely distanced himself from the TTP due to rivalries with the Mehsuds and disagreements about the TTP's attacks against the Pak state..
has also asked people to vacate their houses by June 10 and move to safe locations as what he said the government had decided to launch operation in the tribal agency.
Haji Sher Mohammad Khan presided over the jirga.