11 killed in fighting between 2 tribes in Pakistan

At least 11 people were killed and eight others were injured in shooting incidents in Kunj Alizai area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram district, hospital and local officials said on Saturday (October 12).

Kurram Deputy Commissioner (DC) Javidullah Mehsud said, “There was shooting in the Kunj Alizai mountains near the Pak-Afghan border and on the roads there.”

Mir Hassan, medical superintendent of the District Headquarters Hospital, said that a total of nine injured people were brought to the hospital, out of which one succumbed to their injuries while treatment of the rest was under way.

He added that the condition of three of the wounded was “critical”.

DC Mehsud asserted that steps were being taken to make the entry and exit routes to Kurram safe and to restore law and order in the region.

Pir Haider Ali Shah, a former MNA and a jirga member, said the latest incident of unrest was “unfortunate as jirga members were already present there for a peace agreement between the tribes”.

Last month, at least 46 people were killed and 91 were injured in days-long violence that had erupted over a land dispute. A previous bout of clashes in July had also resulted in 49 deaths.

In September, the district administration had engaged a local jirga to facilitate negotiations between two rival tribes. The KP government has also formed a land commission to resolve land disputes.

(With inputs from Dawn.com)