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| PHCBA team barred from probing Bajaur |
| 2006-11-07 |
| The political administration, Pakistan Army and the Frontier Corps (FC) personnel, along with Bajaur jirga elders on Monday denied the Peshawar High Court Bar Association (PHCBA) probe team investigations into the Bajaur air strikes. “We tried to meet the jirga members who were going to strike a peace deal with the political administration. We (the lawyers) waited for two to three hours at the office of the political agent in Bajuar while the jirga was at a meeting with the political administration for negotiations with authorities,” PHCBA probe committee member Ghulam Nabi told Daily Times over the phone. However, after the meeting, the lawyers were denied a meeting and talks with jirga members of the agency, he said. He said political authorities and FC personnel also stopped them from visiting the destroyed madrassa in Bajaur. However, on the resistance, hundreds of tribesmen gathered and started chanting slogans against the army and political administration. Nabi said the tribesmen went on to quarrel with FC men, who were finally compelled to leave the area on finding out that the tribesmen would begin firing in reaction. “We (the lawyers) visited the location along with hundreds of enraged tribesmen, whose children or brothers had been killed, and checked the destroyed madrassa. We saw the clothes and shoes of school children between the ages of eight to ten who were killed in the air strikes,” Nabi revealed. |
| Posted by:Fred |