The ongoing jirga in Kohat for peace in Kurram has ended. Both sides signed a peace agreement, but the routes will not be opened until the parties dismantle the bunkers and hand over the weapons to the administration.
According to Express News, the grand jirga in Kohat for peace in Kurram ended some time ago. The agreement was signed by both parties. Under the agreement, both parties will cooperate with the government and the administration to establish peace.
According to sources, the jirga had been going on in Kohat for three weeks. The jirga members signed the agreement under the supervision of the Kohat Commissioner.
According to the Kurram Peace Jirga agreement, the parties will be obliged to dismantle private bunkers in Kurram and collect weapons, but the government will open the routes to Kurram only after peace is established.
The government will also establish a special force consisting of 399 members, which will ensure the security of the Kurram routes. The decision to establish the special security force was made in the Apex Committee meeting.
The formal announcement of the Kurram Peace Agreement will be made at the Governor House, Peshawar, but the peace agreement has been signed anyway, and the parties will be bound by the decisions taken in the Apex Committee meeting.
Sources also say that one party had already signed the peace agreement, while the other party had sought time for consultation and signed it today.
It was also decided in today’s jirga that the decisions taken in the Apex Committee held in Peshawar will be implemented. If the parties have any reservations, they will approach the Commissioner Kohat or the Divisional Commissioner so that the government can immediately remove the reservations.
Time has been given till February 1 to implement the agreement, and within a month, both parties will dismantle their bunkers built to attack the other party and hand over the weapons to the provincial government.
Sources say that the bunkers will be dismantled under the supervision of the administration and the weapons will also be collected under the supervision of the administration. One month’s time has been given so that no party says that time was short.
The issue was also discussed in the jirga that if one side does not surrender its weapons, will there be an operation? A day ago, this issue was discussed in the KP Assembly and the members of the assembly strongly opposed the operation, however, today the jirga agreed that both sides will surrender their weapons and there will be no operation.
According to the correspondent Express, the routes will not be opened at the moment until peace is established. The parties will not surrender their weapons and dismantle the bunkers. The routes will not be opened. However, the provincial government has continued the helicopter service to reduce the difficulties, in which medical and food issues are being dealt with. When the provincial government is sure that peace has been established, it will open all the routes leading to Kurram.
It should be noted that this dispute in Kurram is 100 to 150 years old, in which both sides claim ownership of a piece of land. Various issues kept being added in this matter and this dispute continued to grow.
