Bara tribesmen stage sit-in at Khyber Pakhtunkhawa governor house

Hundreds of Bara tribe men have staged sit-in with 18 dead bodies found a day earlier in Alamgudar area of Khyber tribal region’s Bara tehsil in front of the on Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa governor house.

Reports said that the protestors carrying the bodies of 18 tribe men who were found in different areas of Bara tehsil. The 18 bullet-riddled bodies of local people belonging to three families were found in Alamgudar and Dogra areas of Bara populated by Sepah Afridi tribe.

Some of the dead were identified as Gul Jamal, Jamal, Alamgir, Jahangir, Mahir, Umar Gul, Attaq, Mughal Baaz, Wali Khan and Rahim. No group or individual claimed responsibility for the killings yet.

The tribesmen from Bara said that the people killed were not militants but ordinary citizens, who they said were murdered in cold blood by the security agencies.

The mob attacked the senator by hurling stones and shoes at him. Soon after, a supporter who was accompanying Afridi fired in the air to disperse the mob and the senator was escorted to his car to escape the clash.

The protestors said that they had not seen the senator, who hails from the Bara region, for almost four and a half years. They said that Afridi resided peacefully in Islamabad, while the situation in Bara worsened over the years.

A 12-member delegation has been constituted to negotiate with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s governor. The committee will put forth the demands of the protestors, including ending military offensive in Bara and compensating the heirs.

Dozens of Shiites protested along with 86 bodies for four days at Quetta’s Alamdar road and forced the Pakistani government to dissolve the Balochistan provincial assembly and impose governor rule.

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