BAJAUR, March 11: A tribal jirga on Saturday executed in public an alleged assassin at the Jangazay village in the Mamond sub-division of Bajaur Agency, according to eyewitnesses.

They said that Madar Khan, the alleged assassin, was wanted in the killings of ten people of the area. After the murders, he had fled to Karachi, they added.

He was arrested upon his return to the village by the elders of the area and presented before the jirga, which tried him for three days and found him guilty. He was put to death in the presence of a large number of tribesmen and the members of his family, the eyewitnesses said.

At the time of his execution, his hands were tied behind and he was blind-folded, they said, adding that his family members did not entreat the jirga to spare his life.

It is for the first time in the history of Bajaur Agency that any murderer has been executed in public by the orders of a jirga.