MANSEHRA, July 26: Peace committees will be constituted at union and district levels in Mansehra for controlling the deteriorating law and order situation in the district and averting attacks on offices and officials NGOs, Dawn has learnt.

At a session of the district council Mansehra on Wednesday, councillors termed the operation against Lal Masjid and its seminaries in Islamabad a conspiracy of intelligence agencies of the United States and Israel. They prayed for departed souls of clerics and students who were killed in the operation. Convener Mufti Kafaitullah chaired the session.

The councillors said that a Muslim could not commit suicide to kill his Muslim brothers. The series of suicide attacks in the country, they added, was a conspiracy of secrete intelligence agencies of the US and Israel. They asked the government to change its pro-US policies.

Terming the operation unjustified, they criticised the government and demanded a judicial inquiry of the incident.

The councillors condemned attacks on offices of NGOs in Mansehra, Allai and Battagram and asked the provincial and district governments to provide security to NGOs’ officials.

District nazim Sardar Muhammad Yousaf announced contribution of one-month salaries of nazims and one-day salaries of government employees into the relief fund for flood-hit people of Sindh and Balochistan. He lauded the role of Sindh and Balochistan’s people when earthquake hit the Northern Areas in October, 2005.

He appreciated the role of NGOs in rescue and rehabilitation of earthquake affected families, saying that without the NGOs, it was not possible for government to help millions of affected families.

The nazim said the peace committees would be constituted at union and district levels and would have representation from local bodies, NGOs, journalists and the elders of the area.

District councillors Amjid Salar Khan, Salem Khan, Aurangzab Khan, Babar Saleem Khan, Perveen Saif and Riffat Hameed Qazi spoke on the occasion.