PESHAWAR: Adviser to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister on Information Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif has said that the government will take additional security measures to ensure lasting peace in the violence-marred Kurram district.
New police checkposts will be established along with the deployment of two platoons of the Frontier Constabulary (FC), said the KP government’s spokesperson, adding that the recruitment of 400 police personnel has already been approved to secure the Kurram highway.
Barrister Saif’s remarks come after the two warring tribes in Kurram, following days-long parleys, signed a peace agreement containing 14 points aimed at establishing peace in the area after weeks of violence on Wednesday.
“Both sides have agreed to hand over their weapons to the government,” jirga member Malik Sawab Khan told Geo News on Wednesday.
The peace deal came after the grand peace jirga — under the supervision of GOC 9 Division Major General Zulfiqar Bhatti — was convened at Kohat Fort to mediate talks between the two sides.
The jirga, as per Barrister Saif, held more than 50 sessions during which members made sincere efforts for peace while being supported by the administration including the commissioner and the deputy inspector general of police (DIG).
Despite multiple truces announced over the past year, the issue had remained unresolved, with tribal elders continuing efforts to negotiate a permanent peace agreement.
