The Hangu Peace Jirga, constituted by the NWFP Governor, arrived in Sadda, a town of Kurram Agency, on Tuesday after holding talks with Shia elders in agency headquarters Parachinar.According to an official statement, the jirga participants unanimously decided to constitute peace committees at the street level. It said the committees would work in collaboration with the local administration to ensure peace in Parachinar.
The statement included that after the jirga, delegations of Shia elders left for the surrounding villages to persuade people, especially Sunni elders, in those areas for maintaining peace and restraining them from any sort of hostility.