An organizer of a one -week sitting in the parachute city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa located in the Kurram district against the prolonged closure of Thall’s parachute road was arrested on Sunday, police said.
The Thall-Parachinar road, the only way that leads to the city, has been closed since the attack of November 21, 2024 against a convoy in the Bagan area that left more than 50 dead. Subsequent confrontations derived from decades land disputes were collected at least 130 more lives.
A high fire agreement reached in January suffered setbacks as the attacks continued with the aid and the government’s convoys. However, tribal leaders again agreed an eight -month truce on March 29.
“Kurram police have arrested Malik Sartaj in Upper Kurram [tehsil] And Imran Maqbool in Lower Kurram [tehsil]”Said a statement from the district police officer office, confirming the arrest of Sartaj, who was among the leaders of the seated that began on March 2.
However, he did not specify any reason for the arrests or more details about them, and added that raids were also carried out to arrest Khawaja Naheed of PTI.
A sitting against the closure of the road began on March 2, with the elderly Sartaj and Musarath Bangash among their participants.
The demonstrations to protest the arrest were carried out in several places in Parachinar, a Dawn.com reported correspondent. Bangash described Sartaj’s arrest as “unfortunate.”
He said: “We have been forced to celebrate a peace rally about Malik Sartaj’s arrest and [demand] The reopening of the roads. We have been organizing a sitting outside the press club during the last 50 days [but] It is not taking the step to establish peace. “
In the sitting last month, the protesters had said that the demonstration would continue until the road was opened. They also regretted that the weekly supply convoy for people were insufficient.
In the most recent incident, at least three people were killed and several others disappeared on Friday when the unidentified assailants attacked a group of people traveling from Parachinar to Peshawar in the Bagan area of Bajo Kurram, causing protests throughout the district.
The district administration has said that all possible measures are being taken to provide relief to people.
Approximately a month ago, the teams of the Airport Authority of Pakistan (PAA) and Pakistan International Airlines also evaluated the operational viability of the parachute airport for commercial and humanitarian flights.
The KP Government in February had announced a new operation against militants in Kurram in February, arresting at least 30 criminals and facilitators at the Bajo Kurram Tehsil.
