MANSHERA, June 8: Members of Kurrum Peace Jirga during a meeting here on Sunday vowed to work for peace initially in the region and then work out modalities to solve old disputes.

“If peace prevails in the region, then both the sides would be able to carry on further negotiations in peaceful environment to solve the main problems,” said a member of jirga.

Members of Kurrum Peace Jirga were taken to Abbottabad after their releases from Haripur prison on Saturday. They were kept under tight security in a local hotel in Abbottabad.

According to the jirga members both the tribes were agreed to open the Parachinar-Kohat road, which was blocked after the eruption of bloody clashes in the region last year.Kurrum Agency Assistant Political Agent Ihsan Khan told this correspondent after the meeting that the meeting was highly successful.

Mr Khan said that the jirga would be continued on Monday to find out modalities for the lasting and maintainable peace in the region. “The dispute is not so sample as some people consider it. It is very complicated matter which will take some time to be resolved,” he added.To a query, he said that political agent was due in the jirga on Monday and both the tribes would inform him about their decision and point of view and then the final announcement would be made. He said that decision would be also made about resettlement of displaced people of the region in their respective areas.

A jirga member Malik Mohammad Ibrar told this correspondent that because of the bloody clashes in the region and blockade of Parachanar-Kohat road the shortage of the food items and medicines was worsening with each passing day. “Because of the shortage of medicines in Parachinar and blockade of the road about one hundred children had been died in the restive area,” he added.