KOHAT, Feb 26: The security forces raided shops and godowns in Thall and Hangu on Saturday and seized huge quantity of food items meant for internally displaced persons of Orakzai Agency. The shopkeepers however got hint of the raids and avoided arrest. The forces raided two shops in Taj Market and a godown and seized 80 bags of pulses, 80 bags of rice, 70 canisters of ghee and eight bags of flour.

The items, provided by foreign NGOs, were meant for internally displaced persons of Orakzai Agency.

The Thall and Hangu police had earlier arrested truckers, who were carrying relief goods from IDP camps to Punjab.

Meanwhile, the bullet-riddled body of a tribesmen, belonging to Orakzai Agency, was found in Sumari Bala area of Lachi here on Saturday.

Lachi police later identified the deceased as 22-year-old Hazrat Hayat, a resident of Mamozai area in Orakzai Agency. The body was handed over to family for burial.

JIRGA: The jirga of Sunni Supreme Counil dissolved their five-member peace committee, which was constituted last year to maintain peace during Muharram, owing to deficit of confidence in the government.

The senior members of Sunni Supreme Council, Maulana Abdul Jalil, Maulana Abdul Sattar and Maulana Farooq announced the dissolution of the committee.

They also set a deadline of March 5 for expulsion of the NGOs staff from the civil hospital, threatening to stop work on the health facility forcibly if their demand was not met.

“The foreign company engaged in construction of hospital is in fact Blackwater, which is involved in killings of half a dozen religious leaders during past few years,” they alleged.

They said that committee members were playing in the hands of local administration and minting money under the garb of peace agreement.

The Shia and Sunni leaders had reached a peace agreement after suicide attack on a mourners’ procession in March 2006 that left more than 35 killed and 40 people injured.

After the blast, the enraged crowd burnt the whole bazaar causing losses to private and government buildings worth billions of rupees.