The Khidmat-e-Khalaq Committee Bara (KKCB) has announced to hold a protest rally in front of the Parliament House on Tuesday (today) against the continued curfew in Bara that entered its ninth day on Monday. Jan Wali Afridi, the KKCB president, while announcing the rally at the committee’s central office at Spin Qabar, requested the committee members and “all peace loving Afridis” to participate in the rally on Tuesday. A large number of political activists, tribal elders, students and members of the KKCB attended the meeting.Afridi said that all efforts to resolve the issue through peaceful means had failed to yield positive results. “We have had enough of press conferences and rallies in the agency and in Peshawar,” he said, adding that their protest in Islamabad would bring the matter to the notice of parliamentarians and the president.
The Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) Act has made all tribesmen slaves to a single person (political agent),” he said, adding that they had no other forum to seek justice from after the political agent. He said that the prolonged curfew had hurt the businessmen of the area. Demanding compensation for the business plaza razed to punish Sepah, a tribe of the Lashkar-e-Islami head Haji Mangal Bagh Afridi, he urged the authorities to end the “demolition drive” in the agency, saying innocent people were paying for crimes they had not committed.