Hund residents vow not to vacate houses

SWABI: Residents of the archaeological village Hund declared at a jirga on Sunday that they would not bow to the government pressure to vacate their houses. The Directorate of Archaeology and Museum has given one month notice to 1,200 houses of Hund village, saying that the village is an archaeological site and thus is a property of the Directorate of Archaeology.

To adopt a unanimous line of action, the people of the village convened a jirga in which they declared that they would resist the authorities' notice.

The jirga participants declared that the law enforcing agencies would have to pass over their dead bodies to vacate their houses.

They said that their ancestors had lived in Hund village for centuries and now the archaeology directorate was forcing them to leave their houses without any mechanism. They declared that they would fight for their rights and no-one from the entire village would obey the order of the directorate.