Mohmand... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Bloody Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
Agency have expressed grave concern over detention of 170 notables of the region by political administration for not raising armed lashkars against faceless myrmidons in their respective areas.
The notables had been jugged for no fault of theirs, members of Mohmand Safi Jirga Jangrez Khan Mohmand, Samiullah Afridi and Fata Lawyers Forum president Ijaz Mohmand told a presser here on Monday.
| One of the side effects of collective responsibility is that the heads of the community heads are at risk when the higher powers-that-be are displeased. |
The rustics, they said, were forced to obey the orders of administration. They said that administration demolished the houses of those, who didn't obey its orders.
Mr Ijaz said that the political administration was openly misusing its powers as people were tortured under Frontier Crimes Regulation but they had no right to move a court.
The detention of tribal elders, he said, was clear violation of basic human rights
...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
, creating unrest among people.
He said that rustics were rendering sacrifices in war against terrorism but the administration was not ready to appreciate them. He demanded amendments in FCR and extension of Political Parties Act to Fata to ease miseries of tribal people.
Mr Ijaz appealed to President
Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
and Governor Barrister Masood Kausar to take notice of illegal detention of 170 innocent tribal elders and order their immediate release.
He also demanded of Human Rights Commission of Pakistain and other rights organisations to take notice of injustices with tribal people by the political administration.