LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Nov 1: The political administration in Jamrud has brought a truce between two warring tribes and arrested some 28 tribesmen from both side. The gunbattle which continued for three days over a land in Ghundi, area has stopped.

The administration also seized huge quantity of heavy arms with the help of Khasadars, Khyber Rifles and Frontier Constabulary. Vehicles of both Assistant Political Agent Political Tehsildar Jamrud also came under fire during the cross firing, but no one was hurt. However the vehicle of the Tehsildar was slightly damaged.

The two tribes headed by Noor Bahadar and Zulfiqar were engaged in a gunbattle over the ownership of a land at Ghundi area in which heavy artillery and rocket launchers were also used.

When the operation was launched, the tribesmen offered no resistance. The administration arrested 28 people from both sides including their tribal heads Noor Bahadar and Zulfiqar Afridi. Later all the arrested were sent to Dera Ismail Khan jail.

SCHOOL OPENED: Corps Commander Lt Gen Ali Mohammad Jan Orakzai on Friday inaugurated a primary school built by the Pakistan Army in Sheen Qamar area of Bara Tehsil in Khyber Agency.

Speaking on the occasion, the army general lamented that literacy rate in tribal areas was very low and this was the main cause for their backwardness.

He said keeping in view the low literacy rate the Pakistan Army has attached priority to the establishment of educational institutions in the far-flung areas of Fata.

He said soon after entering the tribal areas the army immediately established temporary schools and assigned the task to qualified teachers to educate the children of the area.

The army was working on a long-term policy of establishing quality educational in tribal area.

He announced that very soon additional rooms would be constructed at Sheen Qamar primary school along besides providing a playground and sports equipments for the students.