Two Religious groups re-launched fight in Khyber Agency

Fight between two religious groups restarted in the far hilly area of Khyber Agency “Tirah Valley”, during the winter season the fight between groups were stopped but while the summers starts this year they began fighting each other with heavy and light weapons.

It is also mentioning here that a couple of days before the fight between two groups “Lashkar-e-Islam” and “Ansar-ul-Islam” begun which was firstly started during June 2006. Up to now more than six hundred tribesmen killed and hundred wounded in the fierce fighting. Political administration and Tribal Jirga has been failed to maintain peace in the area for avoiding two groups from fighting, their main fighting cause is their religious belief differences due to which they have killed many persons of their groups.

On previous Sunday the hilly area of Tirah valley Kamar khel become a war field between two groups in which many people fear to be killed.

According to Ansar-ul-Islam spokesman ,the areas of “Sokh” and “Takht-e-Shaky Ali” have been captured by their fighters and they area going for further capturing the areas.

But on other side the Spokesman of Lashkar-e-Islam has rejected the claims by Ansar-ul-Islam. Lashkar Spokesman Haji Zar Khan has said that Laskkar has arrested about twenty volunteers of Ansar-ul-Islam gourp. Due to continue raining in Tirah valley and unavailability of Telephone the number of accurate killed persons have not been confirmed.

The fighting between two groups have badly effected the local population as they have migrated to the subdivisions of Khyber Agency ,Jamrud and Bara.

Now it is the time for the Government officials to make such steps to stop these groups for further fighting to avoid from more precious human causalities.