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By
Hussbanullah Mutawakkel, IOL Afghanistan Correspondent
PESHAWAR,
September 5 (IslamOnline) - A tribe in Bannu city in the Pakistani state
of Sarhad forced the Pakistani army to release 6 prisoners arrested
Monday, September 2, on charges of alleged links with Al-Qaeda network.
Two
of the six detainees had managed to escape from prison and resorted to
the nearby “Jany Khayl” tribe who, on hearing their story, sent
dozens of their armed youth to attack the detention center, where they
managed to free the other four, reported the Pakistani newspaper, Mashriq.
A
large number of Pakistani troops and militias circled the area of the
“Jany Khayl” tribe Monday, said the paper, and demanded that the
tribesmen hand over the alleged Al-Qaeda suspects. Negotiations took
place between the two parties, resulting in the tribesmen’s refusal to
hand over the men they described as Mujahedin.
Jawid
Iqbal, secretary of the government of Sarhad; Tajul-Haq Khatk; Ghulam
Farooq from the government of Waziristan and a number of civil and
military officials took part in the failed negotiations.
The
tribesmen said the detainees were nothing but students at the school of
religion in the area jailed by the army without any clear charges, and
said they were prepared for whatever consequences for their support of
the suspects.
The
chieftains said that following the failure of negotiations, members of
Waziristan’s security committee: Mawalwis Abdul-Rahman, Fadlu-Rahman,
Azizu-Allah, Shir Deraz, Adel Zaman; former MP Hajji Saad-Allah Khan
from Bannu and Mawalwi Mohammed Alem, started high level contacts with
high ranking government officials in a bid to avoid further clashes.
“Former
Waziristan MP, Mawlawi Dindar, joined hundreds of armed men and dozens
of cars two kilometers from the ‘Jany Khayl’ tribe,” declaring he
would resist the Pakistani army if they launched any attacks to arrest
the alleged suspects, tribe sources said.
The
sources added that the tribe chieftains and leading figures had signed
an agreement stipulating on granting refuge to any person who resorts to
them for help and not handing them over to the Pakistani government.
Anyone who breaches the agreement out of greed or out of fear of the
government is punished with a fine totaling 70,000 rupees (a U.S. dollar
is worth 60 rupees) and his house is demolished.
Based
on the agreement, “Jany Khayl” utterly refused to hand over the six
alleged Al-Qaeda suspects to the government.
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