MIRAMSHAH, Sept 14: The Mandikhel tribe, a sub-tribe of the Ahmadzai Wazir tribe, has raised a 300-strong lashkar here on Tuesday and pledged to flush out foreign terrorists from their territory in the North Waziristan tribal agency.
The lashkar vowed to wipe out foreigners hiding in the tribal agency and announced that anyone sheltering a foreigner would be liable to pay a fine of one million rupees and his house would be demolished.
The armed volunteers of the Mandikhel tribe demolished two houses belonging to an alleged militant, Hizrullah Khan, and conducted raids for his arrest. Earlier, the political administration and the tribal elders reached an agreement in jirgas held separately at the Datakhel, Razmak and Mir Ali areas and the agency headquarters, Miramshah.
According to the agreement, tribal elders assured the political administration that there was no foreign terrist on their territory and they pledged that they would not harbour foreign terrorists and hand them over to the political administration.
They assured that would not shelter anyone involved in terrorist activities, adding that they would not allow anyone, local or foreign, to disturb the law and order situation in the tribal agency.
Earlier, it was believed that the Mandikhel tribe was sheltering foreign elements and a notice was served on them by the political administration after four people were killed during a military operation on Aug 23 in the Mandikhel area, 18 kilometres from Miramshah.
Three of those killed in the operation were local tribesmen while the fourth one was an Afghan national. Two suspected terrorists had been caught and were sent to Islamabad for interrogation.
