Khyber: The murder of the leader of the hijacked Tirah merchants, Haji Sher Mohammad, and his colleague on February 4 by the tehreek-i-taliban pakistan (TTP) outlaw (TTP) has greatly moistened the spirits of the premises with the majority of They in a state of constant fear and shock from the occurrence of the horrible incident.
Local sources told this writing that although the markets in Tirah were open, people preferred to remain inside. They said that the markets gave a desert appearance, since commercial activities were seriously affected by the incident, which left most local merchants and merchants in an uncertain situation.
They said that assistance to the weekly and Friday weekly fairs, which had been regularly held for decades in Lar Bagh-Markez in Malakdinkhel, was thin and commercial activities stopped almost during the current week.
“Local merchants and ordinary residents have lost faith in security arrangements and now they feel very insecure with the tragic loss of their popular leader and a colleague in an act of terrorism,” a local merchant told a local merchant. Sunrise while requesting anonymity.
Markets use a desert look, since locals prefer to remain indoors
He said about how common people could rest confidence in the law enforcement agencies to restore peace in the valley when their prominent leaders were not safe.
The only daring and bold voice came from a local tribal elder during the funeral of the two executed men when Malak Zahir Shah openly challenged the proscribed militant organizations about why they attacked innocent people without concrete evidence of their alleged participation in any act of spying In your activities.
In an emotional speech that pronounced at the funeral and the videos that were shared on social networks, Malak Zahir Shah insisted that the people of Tirah reserved the right to investigate the incident of the brutal murder of Haji Sher Mohammad and Ibrar Afridi. He called all the triah tribes that join to expel such undesirable elements of the area.
The sources said that Malak Zahir Shah and their family members had immediately transferred Peshawar for personal security.
The kidnapping of Haji Sher Mohammad and Ibrar Afridi on January 30 and its subsequent execution of TTP for spying positions was the first incident of its kind during the last decade when thousands of displaced families had moved to their homes in different areas of the valley , Located near the border of Afghanistan.
The presence of militants mostly affiliated with TTP, Lashkar-i-Islam, Emarath-I-Islami and Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group was felt by the residents of the Valley in June 2022, since the armed men had occupied a series of houses abandoned and damaged the absence of premises.
The sources in the region said that initially those armed men had insisted that they would not damage the premises, since they had fought a ‘jihad’ against the security forces, while they would only insist on the provision of food and temporary refuge in their time of need.
They said that armed men would use the local population as a human shield when the security forces would launch an operation against them, since “conveniently” they would mix with the local population and take refuge in their homes.
The sources said that the militancy of a decade and the subsequent military operation in the valley and the surrounding towns weakened the resolution of the premises to put resistance to the armed groups and, therefore, could not organize a powerful protest against Those groups after the captivity murder of the two merchants.
Meanwhile, Bara Siyasi Ittehad has announced to organize a protest on February 15 against the murder of two merchants and the current situation of law and order in most Khyber.
The sources said Monday that a man and his little daughter were injured in a Quadcopter strike in the town of Umarkhel del Valle de Tirah.
They said that Quadcopter’s strike hit a private house that wounded two people and also damaged a part of the house. No more details from the incident could be gathered, since there was no official word about the strike.
Posted in Dawn, February 11, 2025
