Bajaur IDPs’ stay at Risalpur camp extended

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday extended the stay order restraining the district administration of Nowshera

from dispossessing the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) belonging to Bajaur Agency from the Camp Benazir Complex, Risalpur, till the next order.

A division bench comprising Justice Abdul Shakoor and Justice Syed Muhammad Attique Shah extended the stay order against the district administration order about dispossessing the IDPs.

The bench also sought replies from Ministry of States and Frontier Regions, director, Fata Disaster Management Authority and Political Agent Bajaur Agency.

The court passed the directions in the writ petition by IDPs, including Fazli Amin, Idrees and Lal Bahadar against their forced dispossessing from the complex and non-implementation of the government commitments about compensation for their destroyed and damaged houses in the military operations of Rah-e-Nijat against the militants in 2008.

Muhammad Ijaz Mohmand and Sultan Muhammad Yousafzai appeared for the IDPs in the case.

The petitioners claimed that it was their sincerity and patriotism to left their houses and motherland for the national cause during operation Rah-e-Nijat in 2008.

“When we left, our houses were either burnt through explosive or bombs, damaged or dismantle by the militants and the result was destruction of their houses and 180 families were badly affected of it,” the petitioners claimed, adding that the government was then fixed Rs4, 60,000 for completely damaged house and Rs1, 70,000 for partially damaged house, but they were deprived of the compensation.