TIMERGARA, Jan 10: The defunct Tehrik Nefaz-i-Shariat-i- Muhammadi (TNSM) and Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), Lower Dir district, have developed differences over the ownership of a seminary at Kumbar in Maidan here.

The seminary, Darul Uloom Kumbar, which is in possession of TNSM has been sealed by the local administration to avert any law and order situation over its ownership dispute between the JI and TNSM.

MPA Saeed Gul and JI district Amir Haji Fazal Wahab told Dawn here on Saturday that they would use force to vacate the seminary if the administration failed to hand over its possession to the party's local leadership.

However, the TNSM local leaders were not prepared to vacate the seminary at any cost.

The district police officer of Lower Dir urged the leaders of Jamaat-i-Islami and the defunct TNSM to amicably resolve the dispute or face action.

Talking to Dawn at his office here on Saturday, DPO Zaibullah Khan said that the dispute between JI and TNSM had created a law and order situation in the past.

He said that the administration would have to take action and arrest leaders of the two parties if they failed to resolve the dispute or created any law and order situation.

Meanwhile, the workers of TNSM also constituted a local jirga to resolve the dispute. Efforts by the jirga members had so far failed to make any headway towards resolution of the dispute.