PICTURE: DAILY JANG
PESHAWAR: Progress on the peace process in the restive Kurram tribal district of Khyber Pakthunkhwa got another shock when the deputy commissioner of the area was fired upon on Saturday.
Reports said that the convoy of the deputy commissioner was attacked at Bagan by unknown armed persons. Three security guards of the DC were also injured. There were sporadic firing in the Bagan area.
The attack on the deputy commissioner occured moments before the start of a convoy of passenger vehicles guarded by security forces started from Peshawar as part of a peace agreement brokered between the two warring tribes of Kurram.
The deputy commissioner of Kurram Javedullah Mehsud was injured in the attack and airlifted in a helicopter but his condition was out of danger, according to a government spokesman.
The spokesman said that after the incident of firing, the dispatch of the passenger convoys on the blocked road had been delayed.
The roads to Kurram tribal district have been blocked after over 200 people were killed in clashes between two tribal groups for the last many months.
As part of negotiations organized by a grand Jirga, the warring tribes recently signed an agreement under which the main road to the area from Peshawar was to open on Saturday and a convoy of vehicles carrying passengers was to travel on the road guarded by security forces. However, the departure of the convoy was postponed after today’s firing on the DC.
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