By Ashrafuddin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: Jamat-e-Islami tribal district on Tuesday organized a protest rally against the death of a local resident who lost his life in the Frontier Corps custody and demanded a judicial commission to investigate the incident.
A large number of residents, political party supporters, and civil society members took part in the protest rally held in the Landikotal bazaar. They were holding parties and black flags and marched in the bazaar.
The protest rally participants chanted slogans against the alleged torture and brutal killing of one Khatri Khan Shinwari who died in the force’s custody the other day.
Speaking on the occasion, Jamat-e-Islami Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Youth wing president Saddiqur Rehman Paracha, Awami National party Landikotal president Shah Hussain Shinwari, JI Khyber district general secretary Murad Hussain Afridi, Muhammad Hassan Shinwari, Abdur Rauf Shinwari, Zahir Shah, Muqtadar Shah Afridi, Qari Said Hakim Shinwari, Tanzeem Ahle Sunnat Waljumat leader Shakir Khan Afridi, Qaumi Watan party leader Zakir Afridi, Aftab Khan, and Shah Rehman Shinwari demanded the judicial commission to probe the death of Khatir Khan.
The speakers said that Khatri Khan died of severe torture and demanded justice for his family.
JI leaders said like the rest of the citizens Khatir and his family was also loyal and devoted citizens of Pakistan. They lamented the terrorist legal leveled on the residents and other tribals. They said that it was an injustice to the families who buried their near and dear ones in the past few years of militancy.
They said that raids on the homes of respectable people in Landikotal were a violation of the law and they consider it their insult.
The protester said that tribal people always served the country and defended borders without taking salaries.
They accused that torture and killing the residents in custody was the motive against the Pashtoon population.
The Jamat-e-Islami leaders said they will raise their voices against all kinds of injustice against any citizens like Khatir who lost his life while he was not a terrorist.
They asked that the security forces respect the law and respect the culture and tradition which was Nobal to them.
They said the government should heal the tribal’s wounds they received in the past militancy rather than hurt them more.
The leaders demanded that those involved in the brutality of the incident should be brought to justice and given Shaheed package for the ill-fated Khatir Khan family.
