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Jirga resolves old enmity

By Our Correspondent
April 20, 2018

WANA: A tribal jirga resolved a 30-year-old dispute over the ownership of a mountain that had claimed 16 lives, official said on Thursday.

Political Tehsildar Zafar Khan Mahsud told reporters that two sections of Mahsud tribe had claimed ownership of a mountain in Ladha tehsil.

He said that a claimant had requested the political administration to constitute a jirga for resolving the dispute.

The administration had constituted a jirga that included prominent tribal elders, including Malik Iqbal Mahsud, Malik Habib Mahsud, Malik Peshawar Khan, Malik Khan Wali and others. The jirga settled the issue between the two section of Mahsud tribe.