August 19, 2008	Tuesday	Sha’aban 16, 1429

JACOBABAD, Aug 18: A jirga held in Dari village near Kandhkot on Sunday night settled a 20-year-old dispute between Suhriani and Mohammadani tribes by imposing huge fines on both sides.

According to reports reaching here, the jirga presided over by chieftain Mir Abid Sundrani was attended by Mir Manzoor Panhwar, Sardar Khan Mohammad Mohammadani and Mir Malguzar Suhriani as advisers, and hundreds of people from the two tribes.

The jirga fixed Rs400,000 for the murder of a man, Rs800,000 for the murder of a woman, Rs50,000 to Rs150,000 for minor and serious injuries, respectively.

It imposed a fine of Rs2.4 million on Mohammadani men for killing four Suhrianis and injuring five others and fined Suhriani community Rs5.4 million for killing nine Mohammadani men including women and injuring four others.

Both the tribes were fined Rs1.2 million for attacking the residences of Sardar Khan Mohammad Mohammadani and Mir Malguzar Suhriani. The tribes would pay the amount in three equal instalments, the jirga decided.

Mohammadani and Suhriani tribes had been daggers drawn over a karo-kari dispute since last 20 years and their dispute claimed a total of 13 lives on both the sides and left 11 injured

KILLED: A seven-year-old girl was killed and 10 people, including women and children, were injured in an accident on the Indus highway near Dakhan School near Kashmore on Monday.

Reports said that a passenger coach, which was going to Peshawar from Karachi, collided head-on with a speeding truck when it neared Kashmore. Shumaila, 7, was killed on the spot, while Amna, Rabia, Din Mohammad, Sarfaraz, Imran, Ghulam Mustafa, Gul Mohammad and others suffered injuries and were moved to Kashmore hospital.

Police arrested the coach driver Ahmed Din and truck driver.