KHAR (BAJAUR AGENCY), May 7: A local resident threatened to commit suicide along with his family in front of the Parliament House if the government did not vacate his property.

His property had been forcibly taken by the Bajaur Scouts in 1988.

Umer Khitaab held a press conference here at the tribal agency’s headquarters in which he alleged that the scouts had deprived him and his family of their only source of income, adding that his family was facing acute financial problems since his land was occupied.

He said that he had approached senior officials and had even obtained a letter from the Frontier Corps, asking the scouts authorities to hand him over his land but no headway had been made.