PARACHINAR: Kurram Agency tribesmen have threatened to hold a sit-in outside the Governor’s House in Peshawar on Feb 25 to protest non-payment of compensation for their destroyed houses.

Addressing a press conference at Parachinar Press Club on Wednesday, tribal elders from central Kurram, including Abdul Khaliq Pathan, Noor Rehman, Malik Kamal and others, said during militancy in 2001 hundreds of their houses had been demolished, but they were yet to be reconstructed. They said they had not received any compensation for the destroyed houses.

The elders said that they had demanded of the authorities to pay the compensation but nobody listened to their pleas. “We lack basic life facilities like electricity, roads and schools,” said an elder, adding due to corruption many development projects only existed on the papers.

Published in Dawn, February 22nd, 2018