September 04, 2007	Tuesday	Sha'aban 21, 1428

HANGU, Sept 3: The Palosin Wazir tribesmen of lower Kurram Agency and the people of Darsamand village of Hangu district on Monday set free 15 men taken hostage by the two sides during clashes over a land dispute.

On intervention of elders from the two sides, they also released vehicles of each other seized during the clashes.

Sources said a jirga comprising elders of Naryab, Tora Wari, Doaba and Sarozai areas mediated between the two sides.

However, the people of Darsamand said that the row over the murder of one of their men, Ayaz, during the clashes was yet to be resolved.

They asked the Hangu district police officer to solve the murder case in two days, saying that otherwise they would chalk out a fresh course of action.