GHALLANAI, Dec 8: The political administration in Mohmand Agency has issued warrants for the arrest of two tribesmen for visiting Afghanistan without the government’s permission.

The administration arrested relatives of the two tribesmen under Section 19 of the Frontier Crimes Regulation pertaining to collective responsibility.

Officials said Faqir Shah, son of Amirzada, and Arbistan, son of Salim Khan, of the Haleemzai tribe, had gone to Nangarhar without the government’s permission.

They said it was believed that the wanted tribesmen were security guards of the deputy commissioner of Gushta district in Nangarhar.

Orakzai Agency’s political administration arrested two tribal elders on the same charges last month and put them in the lockup.

Sources said Arbistan had recently returned from Afghanistan and gone to Raiwand

for the Tablighi congregation, while the whereabouts of the other man could not be ascertained.

Under the FCR the relatives of the tribesmen would remain in custody unless they surrendered to the authorities.