TIMERGARA, July 18: The Adenzai Peace Jirga on Wednesday demanded of the authorities to register FIR in the other night’s firing incident wherein a brother and gunman of a former provincial minister were injured by security forces.

The jirga also demanded of security forces to take its members into confidence before conducting raids on the houses of people during night in the area.

A meeting of the jirga held at Fishing Hut Chakdara condemned firing by security personnel on the brother and gunman of former minister Bakht Baidar Khan and asked forced to avoid conducting raids in plainclothes.

Local leaders of all political parties including PPP-S district president Mohammad Umar, PPP district president Khurshid Ali Khan and Ashfaqur Rahman, JI leaders Sultanat Yar and Dr Bashir Ahmad, JUI-F’s Maulana Ghulamullah Haqqani and Maulana Gul Rahim, PML-N district general secretary Izaz Ahmad Khan, former MPA Hasham Khan, PTI district president Fakhar Zaman, ANP leader Ubaidur Rahman, Anjuman Tajaran Chakdara president Khawaja Faizul Ghafoor and a large number of local elders attended the meeting.

The meeting was informed by Mohammad Ishaq, brother of Bakht Baidar, that last night one of his relatives told him by telephone that armed men in plainclothes had entered the house of his neighbour Iftikhar Hussain.

He said that he along with gunman Bacha Zada and his nephew Ziaur Rahman moved towards the house of Mr Hussain but in the meantime they were fired at. He received a bullet in his leg while the gunman was hit in the neck. The injured gunman was taken to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar. Mr Ishaq told the jirga that he saw 15 to 20 people around the house.

The jirga continued for more than three hours and discussed the prevailing situation in Adenzai tehsil of Dir Lower.

At the end, the jirga demanded of police high-ups to immediately register FIR against the security personnel, probe the recent incidents of thefts and robberies in the area and bring the culprits to book.

The participants said that theft cases were on the rise in some parts of Adenzai. They said that people of the area were guarding their houses at nights.

The jirga members said that night raids by security forces in the prevailing circumstances were spreading confusion.

They said that they always supported security forces in the area. They said that the jirga also saved the area from influence of Taliban in the past.

They said that people would take to streets if their demands were not met.